Mental Health Counseling and Behavioral Medicine
Philosophia means “the love of wisdom”. Wisdom is the knowledge that we earn through our lived experiences, oftentimes painfully. The kind of lessons that integrate into our bones, changing the essence of who we are and how we will live the rest of our lives. To evolve is an uncomfortable undertaking, it is an encounter with the truth about ourselves, and asks of us to lean into our vulnerabilities and the experiences that reveal them. Our work here together will ebb and flow between reflecting on our deepest convictions and our ongoing questions about the human condition.
“Your conflicts, all the difficult things, the problematic situations in your life are not chance or haphazard. They are actually yours. They are specifically yours, designed specifically for you by a part of you that loves you more than anything else. The part of you that loves you more than anything else has created roadblocks to lead you to yourself. You are not going in the right direction unless there is something pricking you in the side, telling you, “Look here! This way!” that part of you loves you so much that it doesn’t want you to lose the chance. It will go to extreme measures to wake you up, it will make you suffer greatly if you don’t listen. What else can it do? That is its purpose.”
-A.H. Almaas
