Chapter 44: For Coaches and Therapists
Helping others is sacred work — but it’s also dangerous work if we haven’t tended to our own wounds.
Chapter 44, For Coaches and Therapists, is written for every practitioner who has sat with a client’s pain while quietly drowning in their own. It’s a call to remember that healing is relational — and that our empathy must include ourselves.
This chapter blends clinical wisdom with heart-based reflection. It’s not about perfect technique or diagnostic mastery. It’s about emotional presence: learning to stay open, curious, and kind in a profession that often demands performance.
Chapter Summary
Elliott reminds us that burnout, over-identification, and spiritual bypassing are not personal failures — they are symptoms of a system that overworks helpers and undervalues connection.
Boundaries as love: empathy without limits becomes enmeshment.
Honesty over image: healing starts when we stop pretending to have it all together.
Mutual transformation: the best sessions change both therapist and client.
“We can’t lead people somewhere we’re afraid to go ourselves.”
This chapter invites every coach and therapist to reimagine professionalism as authenticity — and to see their role not as savior, but as companion.
Closing Invitation
If you help others for a living, let this be your reminder: your humanity is not a liability — it’s the medicine.
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