01/07/2024
I started delving into the world of Psychotherapy recently and it has been wildly validating for my Chinese Medicine practice. Mainly because from the get go we don’t access one to three sessions of therapy and think it will completely heal us.
We are all a work in progress. I often find people come to me as a last resort. Things have been around for a while, if not years, a decade even and they can feel frustrated if things do not completely change within a few sessions. Often things do dramatically change within a few sessions and then I don’t see them again and the symptoms reappear down the track because the root cause has not been worked on.
I find a large part of my day to day is managing expectations. And the mystery of Chinese Medicine often gets the projectional expectation that it will fix someone in a few sessions. Thinking about therapy and the regular access of therapy as a journey or work in progress is wildly helpful here. Or even building muscle at the gym. Would you expect to go a couple or five times and have your life change forever?
While this medicine is pretty magic and one session can have a dramatic impact that is long lasting. It is not going to take rooted symptomology and shift it forever if you don’t commit to at least a few months of regularity.
They say it takes 3 months for a red blood cell to reach maturity. And from a Chinese Medicine lens it takes about this long to affect the JING (essence, your essential self, blueprint, DNA, deep core self), if there are not a lot of layers on the top to work through.
6 months is more likely if there are a lot of more superficial symptoms to work through first.
I feel 6 months to change some long held issues is pretty cool and wildly magic. Unfortunately it just takes some commitment and work. I am here for it if you are ready. Get in touch. Let’s work at those deep levels and layers.
