How Can My Work Express This Understanding

As a therapist who feels dread before seeing clients, despite having brought this understanding into my sessions, I’m questioning whether to change professions or expand my current work. Rupert says: ‘You shouldn’t dread going to work. Ideally, you should look forward to going to work. So if you dread it, you’re either not doing the right job, or because of your deep interest in these matters, your understanding has outgrown the modality in which you are working. You’re working in too small a sphere now. And the modality in which you’re working can no longer accommodate this understanding. So you feel you’re not being true to yourself. You feel your work is no longer an expression of your deepest love and understanding . . . You have to try to find out, can my work evolve? Can it expand so that I feel freer in it, that I’m more able to express this understanding? Or is there some inherent limit in it that’s just going to go on frustrating you, in which case you want to find work that truly you feel you can express your deepest love and understanding in it.’

From event 12 - 14 December, 2025 The Shining of Being – Online Weekend Retreat at Home, 12–14 December

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