What’s the right choice? is a common question people bring to therapy. Should they quit their job? Break up with their partner? Return to their hometown? Have another kid?
I’m less interested in walking through pros and cons with people, and more curious about this question: How do you make choices?
A wordier version: “What do you do with the stress that making a decision stirs up?”
Do you:
Push forward quickly and refuse to think deeply about the choice?
Worry out loud a lot, recruiting everyone for reassurance and guidance?
Spend a lot of time and energy trying to convince everyone (and yourself) you’re on the right path?
Look for someone to blame, as resentment for the consequences of the decision starts to build?
I will sometimes ask clients to imagine that there are four possible pathways with any binary decision. ...
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