Go-Go-Go Is life coaching another American New Age fad, delivering yet another empty promise of helping us live better lives?
Whether we want to lose weight, get a new job, succeed in business, more education, relationship help, financial relief, smoking, drugs or alcohol cessation, help with depression, overall happiness and countless others, everyone has changes wed like to see made in our lives.
We are forever setting goals and hoping for changes. New Years is a famous time, but rarely do we find success. Certain seasons and events in our lives push our buttons and we try over and over but rigid patterns of behavior prevent us from making the changes we want.
To make sweeping changes in our lives is difficult and we tend to feel stuck and helpless when we fail to do so. We often blame ourselves and become resigned to the idea that we are who we are and that change is impossible, repeating our patterns in an endless cycle of frustration. As Freud put it, We tend to recreate in our lives that which we have not worked through.
There are many professional approaches to assist in learning about ourselves and changing our patterns of behavior. ...