I listened to a podcast this morning about being needed. It described how people who don’t feel useful often get depressed. This can even lead to suicide or early death for some. For example, when men retire and don’t have enough to do, they often lose their sense of purpose. Their health sometimes suffers as […]
Category: Identity
How do you deal with mistakes and the criticism that follows? My son had a situation in a soccer game last week where he made a mistake and got called out for it by his teammates. He was feeling embarrassed and angry. It was tempting to tell him the other kids were just being jerks […]
In solution focused counseling, we usually start with a deceptively simple question, “ What do you want to see change as a result of counseling?” In a big sense, we’re really asking, “how do you want to change your identity?” Or put another way, how do you want to change how you view yourself so […]