WRITE NOW THERAPY!

When we’ve suffered a devestaing loss, it feels like an end. The truth is every end is also a new beginning. After we have had adequate time to grieve (7 PHASES OF GREIF LINK), it is time for us to set a new course. It may be easy to wallow in our sorrow but this cannot be a new permenant home for us. We need to pack our bags of the past and move on.

Don’t think of your loss as a permanent setback. It’s actually a set-up for the next phase, thing, person, part of your life. Life moves in chapters or periods. Following your “blue period” (time of grieving) needs to be the next new beginning. Call it your sunny “yellow period.”

WHAT’S YOUR NEXT ACT IN LIFE GOING TO BE?

What is your next act in life? You need to start thinking about what you will do next. Loss cannot simply end you. Life is best lived. Falling into a depressive state and staying there isn’t living. Heartache is hard but you are tougher than that.

Putting the past behind you, what is your next step? Where do you go from here? That really depends on how much work you have done on yourself already. Have you taken the time to define yourself. Who are you really? What is your true self or identity? LINK

What have you done to define your purpose in life? Perhaps, your purpose was defined by the last phase of your life that just ended. Well and good, but life goes on so what is your next move? What new purpose is waiting for you? Maybe you have never really dove into finding your purpose at all. Maybe you need to find it now. Maybe you have no idea where you start.

LET’S WORK TOGETHER ON THE NEXT STEP

A major part of what I teach is educating people on how writing or journaling therapy can be achieved through using guided journals or workbooks. As a mental-health coach, I guide people through various stages of their life by using scientifically-proven aids that walk you through use of writing or narrative therapies. Here are some questions to ask:

Have you taken adequate time to work through your grief? What have you done to ensure you have done all you need to so you can ensure you are ready to move on?

Have you taken time to figure out who you are? Who you really are? Your true-self void of what the world wants you to be?

Have you taken the time to define your individual unique purpose for life? Why are you here on earth? What can you alone present to the world in your one-of-a-kind way that leave your unique imprint on the world? We all need to have a defined purpose for our living. Without it, life isn’t living.

Take time now and grab a pen and paper and answer these questions for yourself. Go on, do it! Not doing it isn’t going to help you get any better or answer any of these questions that may be holding you back.

I get it. It’s not easy to answer these questions, honestly, anyways. I know. It’s easier to just pop a pill but that is only going to get you so far. If you’re reading this , you want to move forward. Remember, getting over something is only achieved when you push yourself through it. Answering these questions right now is a step in the right direction for pushing yourself through it.

What I want more than anything is to ensure you have what you need to move forward in your life in a positive and fulfilling way. Life can be depressing, especially in these modern trying times. There is nothing more important to me than you finding the hope you need to take your life to the next level. We have nothing without hope. So much that is wrong with our society is believing we are all alone in our feelings. That no one cares. That there is no hope for your future. It simply isn’t true.

YOU CAN MOVE ON. I DID

You may have lost your way and you may feel helpless and hopeless but you’re not. I have been where you are now. I had to climb an incredible journey out of my depression and hopelessness and I did not do it on my own. I had plenty of support in various forms between addiction recovery and professional mental-health guidance necessary from where I ended up (MY STORY). My journey and recovery led me to getting my degree in psychology because so many in the psychology profession helped me find a new path. That journey was rocky but I learned a lot on the journey of recovery that ultimately took seven years. I am here to help. Please reach out if you need someone to listen, give you’re a direction, or encourage you onyour journey. LINK

An instrumental part of my journey in recovery had me doing a lot of writing. Most of what was done in my own recovery was writing exercises that seemed to do very little in the moment but looking back on what I learned through the written part of my treatment was how to let go of specific painful things, how to express myself honestly when I was afraid to do it at all, and how writing could change my mood, make me feel better and actually improve my overall health. Through my education in psychology, I found scientific study after study that had proven results that demonstrated on a larger scale what I learned about my own recovery.

It worked for me and has worked for thousands of other participants and clients who use writing therapy to cure what ails them. It is the most cost effective therapy around. Give it a try and you may be amazed at how it makes you feel.

This isn’t a setback. It’s a set-up for the next great chapter in your life. Start writing it now.

If you want to take your search to the next step, browse some of the guided journals and books available here or on Amazon.