The goal is not to judge whether your thoughts are right or wrong, good or bad.
The goal is to understand what happens when you follow them.
Tag: Online Counseling
When Doing Right Ends Up Feeling Wrong
There is a common assumption that change in therapy means stopping the wrong thing and starting the right thing.
But sometimes the very thing you’re trying to do to improve becomes a reminder of what you’ve struggled to stop doing.
The new habit reminds you of the old one.
The exercise reminds you of past failures.
The goal reminds you of how far you still have to go.
And when you inevitably stumble, it can feel less like learning and more like proof that change is impossible.