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Why I Think Therapy is SO DOPE?!


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    Happy February loves! I'm so excited to be writing this blog post about something so dear to me and that is therapy! I feel like everyone should have a therapist. Personally, I've been going to therapy since I had my first nervous breakdown when I was 16 years old. But I didn't experience breakthrough until these past few years. After my last breakdown, I had my last hospitalization in July 2014, is when I started to accept that I had a mental illness. And that it needed to be dealt with by taking my medications daily and going to therapy. One thing that I learned that I should have done a long time ago was be completely honest. I had so much pride but that broke all the way down after my last episode. That whole season was totally humbling.  I will never forget it. It was tough. I took time to actually learn about my illness and recover, then in Fall 2016 is when I felt that it was time to do something I call intensive therapy. I saw my therapist every week twice in a week for a full hour for 9 months straight. We talked about everything, from childhood wounds, to diagnosis wounds, to insecurities, self-esteem, obsessive behaviors to so much more. We dealt with it. It was time to heal, grow and let go! I felt it was totally safe with my therapist.
     I have a wonderful therapist whom I'm glad to have a trust bond with. What happens in that therapy session,  stays there and she won't go telling the people I've told her about. I can get raw and uncut and let it rip how I really feel without feeling judged. My therapist is so sweet and understanding. I've cried, got angry, sobbed and laughed all in therapy. It was super hard to deal with my issues. It was so hard to know that as soon as I worked on one area, I had another area that needed cleaning up. I felt like a hot mess but I knew I needed it. I wanted to be a whole and complete woman of God.  I wanted to deal with and let go of the things I was holding onto like pain, hurt and not forgiving others. My wounds were deep. It was hard going to school, ministry, and intensive therapy all at the same time. It's by the grace of God that I was able to preach fiery sermons and get almost all A's working on my Associates while licking my wounds. GOD IS FAITHFUL! Looking over that 9 months, brings tears to my eyes. Because some days I really felt like crap.
    Counseling is a form of healing. Having someone to talk to without worrying if you are burdening them like a close loved is relieving. There are counselors and therapists who take their job seriously and are willing to work with you. If you are a minister, pastor, Apostle, in ministry period, do not allow anyone to stigmatize you or discredit your faith in God because you seek professional help. It actually makes you wise. Ministry is tough and you deal with wounded people on the regular who fail to realize you have problems too. Do I believe God is a wonderful Counselor? Yes, but I also believe He placed people here on Earth to do His work as his counsels  to equip His people to be whole in their mind. Stable minds...stable people, which makes it a safer and healthier society. Everyone needs someone that they can talk to! Will you go seek one today? I support you! :)

Join me at God's House of Deliverance Church for our special services all month long at 11am only EVERY Sunday to celebrate a month of God's love. See flyer below for details. Address 13836 Puritan Ave, Detroit, Mi 48227.


Love and blessings,
Sheree B

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