Time to Get Out of B.E.D.

Are you having trouble in your relationships? Do you feel anxious or depressed? Have you ever felt like your life was missing direction or purpose? My experience as a psychotherapist has shown me that your discontentment usually stems from three core issues. You feel:

• Broken,
• Empty, or
• Disconnected.

You are "in B.E.D." Think about it, if you were abused as a child, you may feel broken. If you are sad or depressed, a part of you feels empty. If you struggle with loneliness, you feel disconnected. Some of us get broken more than others. For different reasons, we may end up feeling empty or disconnected. But, in time, these feelings usually subside and you get out of BED.

If that's true, how do people end up BED-ridden and stuck in a painful, emotional rut? The very things you do to try to get out of BED or protect yourself from being in BED in the first place don't work. They actually make you feel even worse. Your failed solutions perpetuate your pain and cause you to become BED-ridden.

So how do you get out of BED? How do you get unstuck? You have to fix what really needs fixing. And sometimes you have to do something different. If you are like most people, one thing will get in your way. You won't want to do what you already know you ought to do. Why? Doing something different is hard. Doing something different is scary, and doing something different comes at a cost.

Next week, we'll explore each of these barriers to change. If you want to learn more about them now and get a jump start on the strategies to overcome them, you can read my book, Do Something Different...For a Change: An Insider's Guide to What Your Therapist Knows (But May Not Tell You). You can purchase the book by going to my website, www.DoSomethingDifferentNow.com and click on "Books."

Persevere!

Dr. Peg

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To learn more about how to experience lasting change, visit my website at www.DoSomethingDifferentNow.com