The Unicorn of Balance
Balancing not balance....copy of an article pubished in Counsellor's Café Magazine https://www.thecounsellorscafe.co.uk/single-post/balancing-not-balance Recently I listened to a meditation on Calm app (©calm.com) by Jeff Warren where he said…“I have no idea how to find balance, I actually don’t think it exists, it’s like trying to find a unicorn. There’s no such thing as a perfect state of balance, life is always changing...there’s really only balancing...life’s a process of making continual little adjustments, it’s figuring out where you might be over extended on one side and where you might be under-supported on another and then fine tuning as best you can.” This really struck me, partly as I reflected on perfectionism in self-care but also as I thought about the to and fro of the therapy process. The image that immediately came to mind was that of the tightrope-walker; that however competent or experienced they are, the walk is never perfe
