Counseling

It's really not cool to have counselors and mental health professionals actually go quite out of their way to talk about the importance of counseling and living a healthy life! Let's just get some facts out there because I couldn't possibly be more frank than this when I say that counseling is all about you, and ONLY you.

I'm stepping out of my counselor shoes for just this post and being forthright so that I can try and put things into perspective without being patient, empathizing or 'counselor-like'.

We've to stop believing and imagining that poor health is limited to the physicality of our body.

Let's give our self credit for the fact that we have a brain, a mind, a personality and emotions (for starters) and that sometimes, just sometimes, they need to be worked on. We're not born perfect.

And if we believe we're born perfect, then all the very best to us. It's your call to check whether I'm being sarcastic or not. Seriously.

Just like how our body slows down, changes gears and falters sometimes, so does our mind.

We live in a world that is much much much more than just biology.

Our biology's someone else's creation while our life and the way we lead it is OUR creation. So we'd want to pay closer attention to how we weave it, walk it and live it.

Going to a counselor does not make one insane, mad, strange or outlandish just like how going to a doctor doesn't make us any of that either.

You think our body's complicated? Wait till you see how our mind and emotions make that word the mother of all understatements.

No, we counselors don't read minds. We help you read your self. Google the difference.

Like I said, counseling is not about what anyone thinks or feels but how YOU think and feel. 

Counseling is NOT psychoanalyzing. So we're not going to unveil our deepest secrets and thoughts and pick up the next microphone we see.

Even if we did figure those secrets and thoughts out, it would be you who told us. Like I said, we're counselors, not mind-readers.

And if you're arrogant enough to think this isn't for you, fair enough. Just don't stand by and blame the world for whatever's going wrong with you. 

I don't apologize for being blunt. I love this profession. I think it's noble and heartwarming for someone to actually give a rat's ass about helping you. And I appreciate those who are brave enough to give it a try. Everyone's entitled to their opinion. So like I said, if this is something you can't digest/stomach, walk on and I won't judge you. However, stereotyping people who want to go give their life a makeover/second chance would just land you at the bottom of the trash can. And that stinks. Think about it the next time you call someone mad.

*wears her counselor shoes again*