Therapy: An Investment

Someone recently spoke about therapy and referred to it as “the best investment you can make.”

You may or may not believe that. So, hear me out:

Living in a world focused on internal and external growth, we are consistently given messages encouraging healthy eating, lifestyle changes, better spending habits, proactive medical screenings, reshaping priorities, and much more. Those are the easier things to promote and implement.

However, how can we be expected to shape ourselves and make changes if we aren’t also loving ourselves and valuing our potential, if we aren’t confident these changes can happen and stick, or if we don’t feel like we are worth making & seeing the change?

We can justify spending time, energy, and money on these external growth avenues, but when it comes to the truly internal growth (aka and the financial aspect of therapy), it feels harder to justify. When, underneath it all, therapy can be the biggest tool in making, sustaining, seeing the change. And…loving the change.

I often wonder, is the true barrier the fact that internal growth is harder to be seen? If people cannot see the growth, is it justified to be investing in?

My clients would commonly say yes, it’s justified.

Because the feeling you experience, and the changes you’re confident in, make it worthwhile.

But to everyone else? That’s a harder area to gain validation.

And as we have learned, validation is a big piece to feeling fulfilled.

-Controversial: Going online, finding a therapist, scheduling an appointment, paying for mental health services.
-Not controversial: Working with a financial advisor to make goals about your financial future, safe investments, and your children’s comfort, paying for financial planning services.
-Controversial: Talking about growth, strengthening boundaries that may shift relationships in a new and dynamic way, others’ feeling uncomfortable with your limits you’re setting to protect yourself.
-Not controversial: Talking about the state of your financial comfort or discomfort, setting limits on your additional spending habits with yourself and/or friends.

Let’s start normalizing your goals for internal growth. Let’s start talking about the discomfort and learn the ways to validate yourself for the goals you have.

Trust me, it’s hard but it’s worth it.

Reach out to learn more about the process.