Excellent! I just listened to a podcast on how weak the younger generations are from overprotecting and self-focus leaving them crippled in dealing with life because it’s hard. Abigail Schrier has written about this new reality. What a huge divide between the WWII and Vietnam generations being honored this weekend and today’s young adult…
Excellent! I just listened to a podcast on how weak the younger generations are from overprotecting and self-focus leaving them crippled in dealing with life because it’s hard. Abigail Schrier has written about this new reality. What a huge divide between the WWII and Vietnam generations being honored this weekend and today’s young adults. As long as we have breath in our lungs there is hope! Let’s engage and share how to respond and endure to life.
Therapy in many ways has gone off the rails in recent years. Sometimes it seems that culturally being "in therapy" is the accomplishment, rather than being healed of life's traumas and tragedies. Yet if all one seeks is to be "in therapy", one can never be healed.
This is not to bash therapy. A good therapist can save a person years and even decades of unnecessary mental pain and anguish. Yet we should also be mindful that successful therapy is a committment on the part of the patient more so than the therapist. The patient has to be committed to seeking healing, seeking growth, seeking inner peace, and has to do the work of changing, growing, and evolving.
Only with that commitment from the patient is any sort of therapy ever going to be successful.
Where mentoring and teaching and generational wisdom can come into play is to encourage young people especially to retain hope--hope that therapy is possible, and hope that therapy will work. So long as people retain hope, change is possible, and growth is inevitable.
Excellent! I just listened to a podcast on how weak the younger generations are from overprotecting and self-focus leaving them crippled in dealing with life because it’s hard. Abigail Schrier has written about this new reality. What a huge divide between the WWII and Vietnam generations being honored this weekend and today’s young adults. As long as we have breath in our lungs there is hope! Let’s engage and share how to respond and endure to life.
https://biblicalcounseling.com/resource-library/podcast-episodes/bad-therapy/
Therapy in many ways has gone off the rails in recent years. Sometimes it seems that culturally being "in therapy" is the accomplishment, rather than being healed of life's traumas and tragedies. Yet if all one seeks is to be "in therapy", one can never be healed.
This is not to bash therapy. A good therapist can save a person years and even decades of unnecessary mental pain and anguish. Yet we should also be mindful that successful therapy is a committment on the part of the patient more so than the therapist. The patient has to be committed to seeking healing, seeking growth, seeking inner peace, and has to do the work of changing, growing, and evolving.
Only with that commitment from the patient is any sort of therapy ever going to be successful.
Where mentoring and teaching and generational wisdom can come into play is to encourage young people especially to retain hope--hope that therapy is possible, and hope that therapy will work. So long as people retain hope, change is possible, and growth is inevitable.