Growing Pains

On Monday I really stretched myself. I started the morning with a coaching call. I have been working with a life coach for over a year now. He is really great! www.christian-living.com Later that afternoon I had another call with my Master Moms group. This is a group of four women who come together on a conference call to discuss parenting issues. We are lead by a life coach as well...the wife of the guy I met with in the morning. Then, as if that wasn't enough that night TW and I had an appointment with our counselor. I have been meeting with a counselor off and on for probably two years. I know some people are very private when it comes to sharing if they are working with a counselor or not. Not me! I will tell anyone I know that I meet with one. I have learned more about myself and really been helped by another's perspective. For a while now TW has been joining me for the counseling appointments. Often times we walk find ourselves driving to the appointment asking each other, "well what are we going to discuss tonight?" Just to clear the air...we are NOT in a bad spot in our marriage. Instead, counseling actually prevents us from getting there. I think marriage counseling should be used more often for maintenance in the relationship; this would keep a lot more couples out of the counseling office in crisis times, which is often when it is too late to really help anything. If we do happen to be in a "funk" when walk in those doors, as soon as we walk out we are feeling closer than ever. Now, I also don't want to paint a picture that everything is peachy keen while we are in there. But, we are able to process our feelings and really communicate on a level that rarely happens outside of the counseling room. I highly recommend counseling to anyone! So, back to my growing pains. Coaching call, Master Moms, and counseling appointment...whew there was a lot to process after all of those meetings. My brain was on information overload. I will never schedule all of them on the same day again. I need to make some time to go back and review my notes from each of the meetings so that I can unpack some of the feelings and topics that were discussed. Needless to say I feel like I grew six inches that day. :)