When should you reach out to someone for therapy? Does it have to be an actual therapist? What about the therapist? Do they go to other therapists? A psychologist friend of mine once said to me that I was her therapist and that she is more than happy to be mine when I needed her.
Please note, she said, “When” not “If”
The assumption or the premise is that EVERYONE needs therapy at some point in their lives. You don’t have to wait till you suffer from a mental breakdown to realize that you needed to go to therapy. Now, before I start to sound like a plug-in any further, I will elaborate.
When you are really really low and you feel like you really need to reach out to that 'one' person. Well, that person, they are your therapist right there!
It could be your friend, your sibling, your parent... anyone! Sometimes, for a parent, their grown child too!
If you want to talk to someone, don’t wait until the dam breaks. Please reach out even if when you see a small crack - mend it before it widens.
It might not be as easy as I am making it sound. In fact, it is very difficult to be vulnerable in front of someone - to show you can be weak or that you might need someone to hold your hand while you balance yourself out.
To ask for help is actually a sign of strength. To know that you will put yourself out there, to know that maybe the help you seek might not be immediately available either - only a few of us are that lucky to have someone always ready to help. To know all this and still reach out, is a huge sign of strength.
I wish you all the strength to reach out. And the grace to accept the help that comes your way without taking offense to it - it’s merely help. Not a declaration that you aren’t good enough.
Baby steps Amigo, baby steps.🙏🙏
Sweta Shah Sakhpara is a pranic energy therapist and a pranic psychotherapist. She also teaches mindfulness and meditation to kids, adults and families. When she is not doing any of the above, she actively practices being a mindful parent to two kids.
Having learned and practiced pranic healing for ~fifteen years, Sweta has been blessed with the trust of many clients for ailments as simple as a headache to complex ones like Tourette’s syndrome, from depression and anxiety to finding ways to embrace the idea of a new normal with a child being diagnosed on the spectrum. You could read more about her HERE.
