Why You Shouldn’t Label Yourself
The way people talk about themselves in therapy sometimes, it’s clear that certain things they do are a mystery to them.
“I’m really bad at calling people back,” is the kind of generalization I regularly hear as a therapist.
“Why do you think so?” I ask.
“Um… because I don’t call people back?”
Just as there are reasons for everything you do, there are reasons for the things you don’t do.
In the example above, as soon as we looked at a recent example from the client’s life, we both saw a very good reason for her hesitation in returning the call. Read More