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Healing a wound needs attention
What I do know for sure though, is that wounds don’t heal without attention. Even when the body is healing a minor scratch, or a much deeper injury through cellular repair, something is propelling that process and it isn’t stagnation. The energy the body needs to heal a physical issue requires ingredients like nutrition, the removal of and protection from infection, medicinal manipulation through chemical intake or application, something to help mend the problem.
It is the same with an emotional or psychological injury. Wounds that occur to our psyche, personality, development, attachment, our learning and connection need attention. They don’t heal by themselves and they don’t automatically resolve through disinterest and denial.
The Joy in Counselling
Counselling can feel contradictory but that is what is most liberating about therapy. That sometimes opposing things can be true and coexist at the same time. That we can find stillness and peace in chaos, and that the complexity of the human experience can be more than just bearable, it can be exhilarating.
Enmeshment
While community and collective care taking are immensely important, it is vital to allow people to develop into autonomous individuals too. A consequence of enmeshed relationships is that responsibilities for care taking and decision making fall on a small number of people which can result in an authoritarian culture. Eventually, people tasked with “ruling” become exhausted and make poor decisions for the group anyway, their choices becoming more reactive, less considered for collective benefit, and increasingly self serving.
Counselling and the NDIS
Becoming an NDIS provider was something I considered immediately as a way to be able to participate in the system and be able to reach those most in need who wouldn’t have to pay for Counselling. Unfortunately, as a still unregulated profession, unlike Psychology, Counselling is not included as a healthcare service covered by Medicare.