Q: Where do you Turn too When Therapy isn’t Enough?
A: Get Active!!!
- You need to Get Active when all the psychotherapy is not enough and recognize that you are the author of your own book. You have the power to change your circumstances, turn the page and write the next chapter in your life, today. If you are seeing a therapist, great! If not, consider it! Meanwhile, get moving and don't sit around doing nothing, move!
Start by replacing old memories, past events with new ones. Pick up a hobby, roller skating, hiking, ride a bike or start a daily meditation or prayer. Anytime that traumatic event comes to mind, work on your new found hobby or perform something that keeps you distracted from focusing on the past. The extra activity produces “feel good” hormones!
- The Second thing you can do is Go Somewhere Peaceful frequently, like the beach, a park and put your feet in the sand. Changing your enviourment can plant a different seed of life in you, it can give you a different perspective. You begin to appreciate the life you when the things that surround you change. Get some sun exposure, breath in the air and forget about your allergies for a second, get in the water, walk the trail, look up! If you not used to getting-out, we’ll today’s the day you do something spontaneous. When was the last time you jumped in the pool or danced in the rain?
I dare you to turn the page.
Also, surrounding yourself with positive, like-minded people could be what is missing. In the words of motivational speaker Jim Rohn: “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” The people you spend the most time with shape who you are. They determine what conversations dominate your attention. I believe this to be true. Find good people to be around. Is there someone you admire, look up too? Have a conversation with them and wash their car if you have too. If you have to pay for their time, do it. Don’t be cheap, sometimes paying for the coaching or the training you need to get to the next level is worth 10years of your life. Go!!!
- The 3rd thing you can do to get over a traumatic event, “Stop feeling sorry for yourself”, “Stop playing the victim card” and start living purposely and with intention. Don’t leave things to chance and “Just let things happen”, Take charge and do things on purpose.
Have you been bullied in your life and now as an adult you are living with anxiety and fear of people? Stop feeling sorry for yourself, turn the page, forgive the people that hurt you and move on. You don’t need people’s attention or people feeling sorry for your past pain. Grow and become something greater in your life that people look up to you in admiration, a person who people respect, a person of honor, a person who people want to be like, be an example of others, show people how you came out from ashes and transformed your pain into prosperity, be a blessing, not a burden.
You can be something greater than the anxiety you have been living all your life.
I met a 50y/o man who was troubled by his past because he was bullied at 13y/o. Are you really going to accept 40 years of your life go by living with anxiety, on medication, obese and at risk for diabetes because you can’t get over your past? Really? I have met people in worse circumstances and they have overcome their past and have become great influencers and motivational speakers traveling the world like my friend Marie Cosgrove, Author of Greater Fortune. You dont have to live in your past...
It is time you turn the page and rewrite your own book. What do you want people saying about you in 10 to 20 years?
You have the power to take ownership and take responsibility of your future.
You have the ability to become anything you want to be, you are the author of your own book. Think about your favorite movie scene when you favorite movie character seemed to had lost all hope and then at the end, came out victorious! Why cant you be the hero of your movie? Re-write your story, Be the hero in your book.
If you need help to start this journey and write the next chapter of your book, contact me. I would love to help.
