Two things I would like to highlight today:
ONE: CLIENT FIRST
We always talk about clients' interests first. Can this really happen? Essentially, your motivating factor to stay in this profession will have to come from your very own personal interest. This personal interest can be related to personal experience or plainly an interest chanced upon or being planted in you since young. Whatever it is, my point is that your interest in the helping profession will have to have grown from your very own heart. The helping profession is unique in that you will need to know that you want to do it. You need to do it out of your own genuine interest for your passion of helping others. Because helping others require you to have compassion for others, which can only come from within. When I put it this way, essentially when you have a good session with your client, you are actually doing it out of fulfilment for your own interest. Now if that's the case, then there will be no "client's interest first" anyway, is there? I say this because, going back to the initial interest that has drawn you to the helping profession, in it you are expected to help, and by helping you would aim to have a good session with your client, and when you do finally achieve that good session, you may ask "whose interest was put first?" to achieve such outcome? Well, the way I see it, it is the therapist's! Because from the very beginning, the therapist got into this field to help, and by helping means to try to achieve a "good session" collaboratively with the client. And when the client's achieves his/her goal(s), it enhances the interest in the therapist, meaning the therapist continues to be inspired - she wins!
TWO: THE BEST SO FAR
Ever been put on an assignment that intimidates the shit out of you? The thought of it makes you all uneasy, you find it difficult to piece the puzzle together due to lack of cooperation and information, you just want to give up! I have felt all of those and more but I chose to persevere. The journey was an experiential one, and the outcome was amazingly amazing! I have never felt so much satisfaction in doing something until I felt what I felt today. Indeed I was grateful to be given such an opportunity to experience such an awesome feeling! Through this, I am honoured to say that I now see the word "perseverance" on an entirely new level! Great respect for such a word so simple yet encouraging!
"Only through perseverance will you achieve incredible breakthroughs!"
3 comments:
Who is more dutiful?
A guy who LOVES to help people, or a guy who HATES it but does it anyway?
Isn't it more of an effort for the guy who hates it?
This ethics question gives me a headache.
You are right JP, the guy who hates it and does it anyway would be considered to have put in more effort...but would a guy who hates it volunteer himself to do what he does not like doing? And if he does it anyway, what then would his motivation be?
Hmmm, this is beginning to trick my mind now...
There is nothing wrong in feeling good about self. If there is no fulfilment after helping another, then this emotionally draining journey will be a very tough one. No doubt the passion to help comes from within, but how often do you go into a session thinking "I hope I can come out happier"? If this
is the case, then you might want to contemplate on why this is happening. You may have realised that by helping others, you are also discovering yourself.
Perhaps there is no good or bad session, as every session (and after) provides an opportunity for the therapist to reflect on the client, and also the therapist.
Yes, it's about the client first, but don't lose yourself either. Michelle, you're doing great!
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