Buttons pressed
My buttons were well and truly pressed. I can protest as much as a like, but the situation is still there, and I can’t change what happened. What do I do now?
As a UKCP-accredited psychotherapist, I’m ethically obliged to understand and deal with any feelings I might have in response to what’s happening in my life. Otherwise they negatively impact my performance as a therapist. That’s why we are required to have life-long regular supervision, and to have at least 4 years of personal therapy before we qualify.
An approach that happens to have 6 items in it
I carried out a few activities, and I thought you might be interested to hear about them.
It’s a way to re-direct the energy created from “buttons-pushed” into helpful, fruitful activity, and I certainly feel better for it.
Therefore, in response I:
- Recognised what’s happening (feeling vulnerable / button pushed!)
- Talked to friends (OK. Perhaps we might use the word “whinged”!) and my supervisor-therapist
- Researched the topic in hand: confident incompetence (see below)
- Wrote about it (I chose to type it on my laptop although it can be in any format; you might even wish to draw or paint)
- Acknowledged lessons learned / remembered from the experience
- Explored strategies / tactics: in this case to ethically promote my business, and educate others on the topic