Why is therapy bad so often?
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Me to coaching clients: What did you think?
Coaching clients to me: that was like therapy but actually helpful.
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i have also heard this from clients lol
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me too. I think there's something inherently powerful about the meeting of two free and well adult minds that therapy, the well helper vs the sick patient, works against
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perhaps especially in this huge grey area middle section of client/patients who have some stuff to deal with but are not like falling apart unwell, who could show up to therapy and be received or coaching too.
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this dynamic is part of why I have found it possible to sometimes give advice, i.e. light suggestions, what if you tried x? it's not appropriate to do that to someone weak but like... we're 2 adults, I can make my client do anything at all
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*CAN'T I can't make them do anything at all, and we both know it
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also I wrote a bit about the time orientation of therapy vs coaching recently, what clients have described to me as sounding like a kind of perpetual therapeutic present that doesn't always serve them well
pamelajhobart.com/blog/questioni
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