Counseling: Unburdening Past, Embracing Self

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My good friend said that, “counseling is a way to get rid of evil”. I didn’t quite understand what she meant by her statement, at the time, but now going through my counseling sessions, I get it. Her statement or quote means to let go of what is troubling something you, then, now, or in the past to be able to vent out to someone that is completely not bias or one sided. I guess maybe this not the right answer to the testimony that my friend said but I realize that counseling for me has been a way to vent and understand myself. Even though, my friend’s quote stuck out to me and was thought provoking my feelings towards doing the counseling sessions was something that I did not want to do. I dreaded and dislike the thought that I felt that
That was doubt was my own collection of not having my own self-gratification. I needed to realize that I needed to have own “self-talk” meaning I needed to really sit down with myself or when I was in a situation and practically talk to myself to ensure that was person of quality and substance. Also, it gave me chance for self-medication, and recognize that I’m a person with a voice (even though I’m not perfect) to use to help others that are going through what I had gone through. This realization was in my seventh session. I dealt continued to deal with not making the progress of accepting that my behaviors are not helping to succeed. So to me I think that I was growing but also weathering
I feel now that I’m on the right tract to making sure that I’m the best person that I could be. The more and more that I figure out that I have the capability to succeed with killing myself is great feeling. The more and more that I think of my friend and her quote, “counseling is a way to get rid of evil” and I felt that getting rid of this evil was getting rid of some the baggage that I have. I think about my friend said each day. I really feel that she insight to your experience made me more conformable to confront my own experiences that I’m going through. I just know now that I can make a difference in myself without the guilt of feeling that I’m selfish or have an ego. I know that now through self-talk that I can be a better me. That I know that I can be a person with quality and

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