Therapy for Individuals and Couples
What’s Your Storm?
There’s this story that you can find about bison (usually in leadership or motivational blog posts, so it’s accuracy is questionable, but the metaphor remains salient).
The story goes, when a storm comes rolling onto the plains, deer or cows or antelope will do what seems natural to most of us; they will turn, and run away from the storm. The cloud bank comes rolling toward them, the wind changes, and animals run toward what seems safe. None of us, a heard of deer or a person, will ever outrun a storm, so instead of finding the safety and relief they so desperately seek, the animals find themselves tossed around by the strength of the storm, caught in the wind and the rain, wet, cold and tired and no closer to the calm that they seek.
Bison, on the other hand, bison do something that’s unusual in the animal kingdom. They see a storm rolling in, and turn toward it. They charge into the heart of the storm, the very center, with their herd. And they come out the other side, cold perhaps, but in tact, together and strong.
This is the same storm. The difference is how it is navigated.
Life is full of storms.
How do you want to get through them?
Navigate Life’s Storms With Intention
Therapy is about giving yourself a place to tell the truth. When we tell the truth, we turn toward the storm and face it, allowing us to move through our challenges, rather than trying to avoid what is already true. It is a powerful act of bravery and transformation.
