Helping ‘Helping’ Professionals

Darlene doubts her professional choice.

Years ago, a physician, whom I’ll call Darlene, came to me confessing that her early infatuation with her medical specialty had withered.

Lucrative receipts, professional acclaim, and the intensity of learning could no longer distract her from some unknown but pervasive sense of more.

That still, small voice she associated with a spiritual quest cast doubt on everything she had once trusted blindly.

Making the right decision eluded Darlene.

Darlene could only see despair in her future.

If not handled wisely, she reasoned correctly, this crossroads of self-understanding might cause her to lose everything she valued, including her professional zeal and even her family.

The rationality she brought to her professional practice was strangely insufficient at providing guidance.

Not equipped to make the right choice.

Since rejecting the tenets of her early Catholic upbringing for a more modern point of view, Darlene seemed ill-equipped to deal with this invisible but persistent nudging.

She found the New Age self-help books to be shallow and off-putting.

She had many friends who meditated, but the few times that she’d attempted this approach it failed to make much of a difference.

Could she be experiencing some crisis of faith? Was that even a thing?

Burnout and doubt go with the profession.

After decades of education, training, and building a practice to help others, your storehouse of professional resources, like Darlene’s, may be low.

While colleagues may nod their heads in apparent understanding, doubts or even despair may continue to grow.

We can harness these moments of honesty to reinvigorate and transform work, relationships, and especially the friendship with yourself!

You have special needs as a helper.

Whether you are a mental or medical professional, a religious leader, or another on the front lines providing discriminating care and comfort, you have special needs.

Your very profession often isolates you from help. “What would my colleagues think? What if my parishioners really knew my doubts? I can’t possibly change after all I’ve invested.”

The truth is, however, that everything you’ve invested may come tumbling down if something isn’t done!

It’s time to address your doubt and confusion.

Question: Isn’t it time to sort out this confusion and discontent?

Isn’t now a good time to reach out to someone who really understands and can care for you?

Let me be your partner, so we can explore what you are going through as a helper.

Call me at 1 (816) 226-6435 now!