Self-Trust
Last week, I celebrated 5 years since opening my private practice, Malta Counseling. In reflection of this journey, I’ve been thinking a lot about my path of developing self-trust (an ongoing process), which allowed me to choose to start my own business. Five years ago, when I opened Malta Counseling, I took a big risk as I left a stable government job which offered me job security, a good salary with the potential of regular pay increases, good health benefits and perhaps even the eventual possibility of career advancements. I had thought about the possibility of leaving agency work before, but for all of those previously stated reasons, I never really considered it in a serious way. It had always seemed to be a bit of a "pipe dream"...an option that was only really possible for people with a lot of external resources or safety nets, and a level of internal strengths and capacities that I perceived were far greater than what I had to offer. For several years