Your Ship Awaits You

So many people seek my therapeutic help because they feel that they have come to the end of their tether and they're all at sea.

For them, life's sparkle seems to have faded, and they are left - at whatever age - feeling old and tired.

Often clients report having tried a whole range of strategies in order to feel better. Sometimes they reel off a list of self-help books, of therapies and therapists they have consulted before arriving at my office. Yet still they feel stuck.

They have simply had enough of feeling bad about themselves and their lives and they recognise that they cannot continue as they are; that they really must do something about it.

It is as M. Scott Peck writes: 'Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.'*

Only when this understanding is in place can things really change.

Perhaps now is the time to look clearly at your life. Do you think you're too old or too late or too stuck in the past? Are you tired of feeling like you've missed the boat or of simply hanging around hoping that your ship will come in?

If so, you are wrong. The truth is that your ship awaits you. You are in exactly the right time and place to make real and positive changes in your life and in your world. You are in exactly the right position to become the 'you' that you were born to be.

Yes, you may well have made mistakes; you may know all about regret; you may have been hurt and become weary, but still life holds an abundance of possibilities for you.

If you feel that you have lost your way, do not despair. Experience teaches that so many of those who truly found their way did so only after they had first admitted that they had lost their way.

At the end of their tether and in defeat they were gifted with the humility necessary to understand and to move forward and from the ashes of defeat came rebirth and true renewal.

Your life's journey is not yet over. If you have had a wonderful past then it is time to move on now. If you have had a terrible, painful past then it is time to move on now.

The reality is that you were born to live your life with enthusiasm and with joy.

You really can be the captain of your ship. The only thing that can stop you from being you is you.

" You may have a fresh start any moment you choose. This thing that
we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. "
Mary Pickford