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Individuals
Living in Quiet Despair :
The path to despair
has many unswept corridors. Some people come to it through feeling
trapped in unlivable lives. Others wake to the horror that they're
not living 'true': they do not inhabit the emotions they feel
but rather they retreat into a mask of competency from behind
which they feel emotionally homeless.
Others harness
themselves to deflated dreams, which weigh heavy and keep them
from engaging with what is possible in the life they have chosen.
Some are haunted by deep wounds that prevent them from feeling
truly connected to others.
Countless people
spend lives of quiet desperation fending off surges of guilt,
sadness and anxiety with endless pursuits of addictive/compulsive
behaviors. Many of us are not strangers to the dark place of
feeling 'not enough' for the world and empty inside for all our
efforts to fill ourselves and face down the creeping despair
that threatens our hope of what is possible.
Mindful
Psychotherapy with individuals living in quiet despair seeks
to:
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Quickly cut to the
roots of the suffering and provide a gentle mooring from which
to explore the nature our individual patterns of self-defeating
responses to life suffering. |
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Invite people to
inhabit their lives 'as is' and to then acquire a landscape view
of what is possible. |
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Re-define a well-lived
life by current standards given the realities of their lives. |
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Help people learn
who to trust and to find the courage to think themselves worthy
to be cherished by another person. |
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Harness strengths
to envision of a life worth living and summon the self- discipline
to set about identifying what is required and make a plan and
begin step one. |
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Go deep into past
trauma to un-tether people from the suffering while integrating
the difficult experiences into a resilient sense of self-reliance. |
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Free clients
to envision a life filled with passion and purpose which forms
an effective bulwark against normal cycles of self-doubt and
reactivity to the judgments of others. |
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Create a clear and
concise despair relapse prevention plan to utilize new skills
and forestall future crises. |
Change your
mind. Change your life.
 Raven
Bruce, Psy.D.
A Feral Wind Counseling, Inc.
An independent psychotherapy practice
Middlesex, Vermont. Tel: 802-793-9316
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