On last week’s Men’s Mental Health ConvoCast we included questions posed by Sean Swaby.
“What do you think about this?
I work as an Addiction Therapist and I frequently run into hard situations. Parents and youth are stuck in unhealthy conflicts, or they fight with themselves to accept their situation (or emotions), or they are caught with the idea that they just need to do more or push harder or talk louder.
What I want to know from you is this: In your experience is this true? “The things you try, even if they don’t work, these things are probably more important than what ‘works.’ “
I am interested in your perspective about this in your experience as a parent, in your work, and with your most important relationships.
Let me ask it another way: “As a parent, or if you are in recovery, as a business owner, or in your career… heck in your life – Only as you are willing to try, willing to to fail, willing to to learn something and then willing to let it go… then will you be able to find more of the life that you want.”
It’s not really about getting it right. It’s about your openness… your willingness to begin again, that is what makes the difference.
• Does this fit with your experience?
• Do you have metaphors or questions that make you, or other people think about how they can “open up “ to what they could learn?
Anything you can share is appreciated. I will be writing about this in an upcoming article, so if I use your ideas, I will quote you.
Many thanks!!!”
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