Ep. 62: Healthy people ask for help

We could all benefit from professional help. Getting counseling might be the best thing you ever do for yourself.

If you were broken and bruised from childhood abuse or neglect, or sexually abused as a teenager or young adult, you don’t have to keep tiptoeing around the minefield of your past to avoid explosions of shame, anger and rage. You don’t have to feel desperate and hungry and lost your whole life.

If you broke your leg, you’d go to a hospital and get professional help to heal it. If you were broken by child abuse, neglect or a sexual assault, you need a professional trained to help heal that broken part. You are worth getting help.

There is joy on the other side of all that pain. Find it.

Tips & Takeaways:

• To find a therapist, ask for recommendations from healthy people.

• Check out Psychology Today Find A Therapist. Type in your zip code and read up on their specialty, fees, cancellation policy, etc.

• Do the hard work of healing and, in time, everything in your life will get better.

• Don’t let fear, shame and pride keep you from asking for help. You are worth it!