Replacing Self-Help with Self-Encouragement
Most people could use self-encouragement over self-help.
Let’s face it — the idea of self-help has been hacked to pieces for many people.
It’s like being in a sudden deluge of rain. You were soaked to the bone after a few seconds — but it continues to inundate you.
A lot of people get frustrated with all the notions of self-help. In time, it goes from the simple idea that you are capable of working on your inner being and its depths to an all-encompassing do-or-die expectation.
More than once, someone has become irked with me for suggesting self-help ideas. And I get that. It becomes like background chatter — just one of many notions for how to live.
When you are coping with anxiety, depression, or other mental health issues, the constant reminders of self-help start to feel disingenuous, patronizing, and infuriating. More than once I’ve heard it said or implied, “Don’t you think if I could help myself here, I’d not be in this situation?”
I get it. Also, I know that sometimes I can seem preachy with all the self-helpery I share. My notions of mindfulness, conscious reality creation, and positivity to help your self begin to sound and feel like all the rest of the noise.
