This book will help yu empower your healing with weekly meditations and journal exercises to help you incorporate healthy tools to control your anger, and even help you realize there are many cases geting angry isn't necessary or your job.
CHOICES
Some of us end up in a therapy office because we are court-ordered. That, alone,
enrages us. We feel powerless. Whatever got us here was about control—either
we tried to gain control, or someone took control of us. Either way, now a judge
has total control of us. We feel our choices have been taken away. Or have they?
Regardless why you were arrested, whether fair or unfair, whether you feel you
have anger issues or not, you have choices in a court-ordered situation.
You can resist going to therapy. No one can force you to go. This choice will
be a choice to go to jail. Even then, some courts will send you to therapy again.
You can go to therapy and cop an attitude. You’ll spend a lot of money and
not gain anything. Possibly, you will be discharged due to being resistant to therapy. You will probably receive a consequence for probation violation, and be sent
to therapy again somewhere else.
You can use therapy as a tool for change. In any violent altercation, you are
either part of the problem or part of the solution. Therapy can teach you to avoid
altercations in the future.
Oh, and you can leave the country … but the therapy would probably be
cheaper!
I have choices today. Today I can choose to make full use of all learning opportunities,
no matter what got me there in the first place.
Journal Suggestion: Start your journal entry each night this week with the statement:
“I am not perfect. One area I could use help changing would be
_________________.” Share your list of areas with group/therapy. Share whether
or not you thing you could use your therapy to change these areas. If not, why not?
Neurosis, a mental illness, affects everyone to a greater or lesser extent, yet most know little or nothing about it. This book reveals all, including incidence, signs and symptoms, cause, treatment and prevention, in lay language.
