There are many places you can go for counseling, making it a confusing choice. You might already have had an experience with counseling that was unhelpful or even hurtful, and for that I am sorry. You are doing your homework right now, good job! I know that even when you find the right counselor it’s hard to know where to begin, it’s hard to not be cynical about what could possibly change. I also know that somewhere deep within you there is a hope that maybe you can heal, maybe you can be free of some of the pain, shame, hurts, addictions, struggles, or the anger in your life. 

I have a long business name. It isn’t practical or easy to say. But, “Being Alive Is Good Counseling” exists because ultimately that is our desire for therapy. To re-awaken the belief that it can be good again. We enter this world un-afraid and feeling safe. Slowly we get hurt. Whether that hurt comes through rejection, sickness, divorce, death of a loved one, life transition, boredom, purposelessness, crisis of faith, or a thousand other ways, as “life happens” to us we slowly begin believe that the lie that it’s not worth it anymore. Maybe it’s our job that becomes not worth it, our dreams, our marriage, or our very lives. We start to believe the things we once loved are not good. And we know we cannot continue like this.

Why counseling? Because there is healing, peace, and freedom to be found. You were made to hear the voice deep within that whispers, or yells, Yes! I was made for this! I believe we can make it back to the place where being alive is a good thing, where you feel like you are living how you were meant to. Where it’s worth it. 

There is hope, yet. There is joy, yet.