By Mary Cook, MA

Whether clients or counselors, students or teachers, we are all imperfect human beings. We are here because we have a yearning to grow.

And the strongest motivator for growth is pain. When we are significantly harmed or deprived mentally, emotionally or physically and have no safe people or role models to help us understand and rebound or heal, our mind creates defense mechanisms and coping strategies to hide our real pain and vulnerability.

This may serve us well over a short time period, but backfires in a longer time frame. When we become habituated to our means to hide painful reality, we forget our true self behind the fabrications.

More at; Anonymous One website

See also;

Related Reading:

Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics
The Alcoholic Family in Recovery: A Developmental Model
Treatment Resource Manual for Speech-Language Pathology
Adolescent Set: Treatment 4th Edition, Homework 2nd Edition, Progress Notes 3rd Edition (PracticePlanners?)
Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism
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