Embracing the Benefits of Counseling

When you can’t handle your emotions due to life’s challenges, a counselor can offer ways to manage your inner life.

After a tumultuous decade-plus that was emotionally charged around the house, my career was upended and I was wasted. Counselors have helped me manage and find strength so I can focus on the day.

I couldn’t appreciate life’s beauty or blessings during the deepest times of personal crisis. Counseling changed my perspective.

Home — Not My Place to Be

Flashing lights from the sheriff’s squad cars bounced off our house, the trees and, to my embarrassment, the neighbors homes. During a one-year period we had LA County sheriffs traipsing through our home on about ten different occasions.

Taunts and then tempers flared among the seven to ten people who were living with us as they transitioned from the teen years into their early 20s. I simply can’t freely share the details that led to my crisis, but perhaps one day I’ll be able to write it out more fully.

Inside these walls was an arena of personal growth

Home was my battle ground and not my sanctuary as it is for so many. Saturday nights when I longed to go out for a drink or listen to music at a local pub was taken up with arguments from whoever was around.