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Encounter last night was really engaging. It was about the difference between spiritual direction and counselling, which as well as being useful for thinking about what that will mean for me as a director, acted as a bit of a prod in my own life. There've been a couple of points in the last few weeks where I've been wondering whether I might benefit from some more therapy, or whether that would just be being self-indulgent, and this has nudged me over to the "it's a good idea" side of the line.
I think the concerns about it being self-indulgent come from the fact that none of the things getting me down are particularly momentous in themselves, and that there's an awful lot of good stuff in my life, and that I do have the skills to be able to get through it all without a therapist, and of course the perennial awareness that lots of other people have it far worse than me. But that is silly, because whilst I may not strictly speaking /need/ therapy, that doesn't mean that it won't improve my life, nor is taking it up taking away from other people who need it more.
I think the concerns about it being self-indulgent come from the fact that none of the things getting me down are particularly momentous in themselves, and that there's an awful lot of good stuff in my life, and that I do have the skills to be able to get through it all without a therapist, and of course the perennial awareness that lots of other people have it far worse than me. But that is silly, because whilst I may not strictly speaking /need/ therapy, that doesn't mean that it won't improve my life, nor is taking it up taking away from other people who need it more.
