There are many uncomfortable stages in career development.
- We overcome one challenge like graduate school;
- to face the next challenge like finding work in the field;
- to trying to earn a decent income;
- to trying to reconnect with why we entered the profession;
- to trying to stave off burnout;
- and all the while building our craft and finding our niche.
If you cannot relate to this, you are one of the fortunate ones. I spend a fair amount of time encouraging clients, supervisees and colleagues to “hang in there” and “find significance” in the moment.
Everything we learn or don’t learn along the way is serving some purpose in our development. When I hear a complaint, I know there is an opportunity for growth. When I am voicing a complaint I know that it is pointing me to what I need to know about myself.
We all hear our share of complaints. If it is your role to cultivate change, then that is the time to shine the light on the complaint and view the shadow behind it. If we are the complainant, we must shine the light inward, be where we are and learn the lesson. True learning is brave.
Our clients are brave, our supervisees are brave and our colleagues are brave. They show us their vulnerability and trust that we won’t burn them with our light.
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