If you’re a smart and capable person who enjoys intellectual challenges, then don’t forget that you can travel very far along your self integration journey with a couple dozen psychology books + your favourite journal.

Smart people have blind spots, that’s true, but we’re not freshly hatched chicks who need regurgitated insights from our local therapist on a per-hour basis.

We want to chew our own psychological food.

We want to digest our shadow at our own pace, which is a faster-than-average pace, and we ultimately enjoy the opportunity for challenging internal confrontations because we enjoy expressing our predisposition for multi-level thinking.

There is beauty in 1-1 therapeutic work, and I support this pathway to a certain extent, but my personal healing journey has nonetheless been characterised by sitting alone with myself and patiently working through my own issues with the support of high-quality books on trauma, shadow and self integration.

This is because I’m a smart person who can think for himself, and it shouldn’t be taboo to admit this.

I know I’m not alone in this introverted style of self-healing because I’ve received many hundreds of messages over the last few years from people who’ve told me that a particular book gave them a breakthrough in a way their local therapist simply couldn’t provide.

I believe in the power of psycho-education, and I trust that adults can learn how to heal themselves with the support of the right resources.

The right resources are unlikely to be easily accessible, however, and they’re not going to be found with generic therapists who cannot appreciate the full depth of your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual complexity because it doesn’t fit within the standardised model.

I believe in your capacity to heal yourself, but please remember that cookie-cutter counselling is designed for broad symptom management in the general population rather than high-level self integration for a naturally introspective person like yourself.

Don’t settle for standard,

Jordan

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