Life Therapy is a form of therapy that focuses on your life. It’s about healing your hurts, highlighting your strengths, making your way through difficult challenges, and fulfilling your heart’s life-affirming desires.
It is neither medical nor psychotherapy. It does not involve diagnosing physical or mental illness. It also differs significantly from coaching, consulting, and mentoring.
How Did Life Therapy Begin?
I created Life Therapy out of my personal life experiences and thirty-plus years of providing therapy for individuals, couples, and families. Ten of my years were with a nationally recognized hospice and palliative care organization where I cared for terminally-ill patients and their families, directed hospice and counseling teams, and provided clinical education.
Why Life Therapy?
I believe your life matters. Sometimes medical and mental health therapies are not effective by themselves in addressing the difficult challenges you face.
I created Life Therapy to help my clients heal, make their way through life’s difficult challenges, and fulfill the purpose of their life.
What is “Life”?
In Life Therapy, life has a very specific meaning.
1. Life is the condition of being alive. Be wondered by the mere fact that you are alive rather than not.
2. Life is the time period between your birth and death. It’s limited. You don’t know how long you have. You have no time to waste.
3. It’s the story you create from birth to death by your actions. It’s an improv. There’s no rehearsal. You only get one opportunity to create your self. Your life-story is your self. It’s absolutely unique. You are a once-in-forever, here-and-gone story that influences the whole world. We all need you to live the best life you can.
4. Life is a name for the animating force that makes you alive. You have life in you. You have spirit in you. It makes you alive. You must take good care of it.
What is “Therapy”?
Therapy also has a specific meaning in Life Therapy. It is not a series of “treatments” you passively receive. Your therapist does not “fix” or heal you. In Life Therapy, we actively collaborate together. We nurture your own natural healing process. Together we -
- Attend to your life—its condition, time-period, story, and spirit. This alone is healing and empowering
- Serve the health and well-being of your life because it is so valuable
- Take care of your life by making necessary changes that help you heal, strengthen, move forward, and fulfill your heart’s life-affirming desires
Does Life Have a Purpose?
I’m convinced it does. Your purpose is what you’re “putting out” into the world as you live your unique life.
Are you “putting out” into the world actions that affirm your life and the lives of others? Or, are you “putting out” actions that deny your life and the lives of others?
You’re doing some of both. What counts is what you’re doing most of the time.
I believe you are alive to give most of your time to “putting out” into other’s lives what affirms both your life and theirs.
I believe you are alive to affirm life as only you can. You affirm life as only you can when you “put out” there what is unique to you. Unique to you are the life-affirming desires of your heart. No one else has them. They are yours alone to realize.
When you know the life-affirming desires of your heart and invest most of your time fulfilling them, you live with purpose. You “put out” actions that affirm both your life and other’s.
When you’re engaged in fulfilling the life-affirming desires of your heart, you have something of inestimable worth to do. You have good reason to be healthy and live a healthy life. You have good reason to make your way through life’s most difficult challenges.
What amazing work you have to do! Your work makes the whole world better.
Life Therapy helps you know the life-affirming desires of your heart and make your way through challenges to fulfilling them.
When you want help healing your hurts, using your strengths, making your way through the difficult challenges you face, and getting to a better place in life, contact me at mark.w.neville@gmail.com
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