If healing were simply about wanting to change, most of us would do it the moment life became painful enough. Yet many people live with loneliness, grief, anxiety, relationship struggles, or a persistent sense of feeling stuck for years before reaching out for support.

• “I fear that if I let the tears come, I might drown in my grief.”

• “Others have it so much worse than I do, I don’t have the right to complain about my struggles. I can manage it without help.”