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You’re feeling down on yourself or dissatisfied with your life. Too frequently you’ve fallen short of your goals and are not close to making your dreams come true. Perhaps you’ve been feeling anxious and depressed, preventing you from trying harder or taking more risks. Maybe you're also having difficulty regulating your emotions, impulses, and fantasies which has led to excessive or extreme behaviors or recurring conflicts with yourself and others.  Compared to others who seem happier and more hopeful, you’re at a loss about what changes and improvements are needed or how to bring them about. You may want to remedy your problems and difficulties, but can’t muster the self-discipline and determination to ensure success.

The Cause of the problem…
According to Therapy from the Will the problems and difficulties you’re still struggling with stem from the lack of personal power, or low ego strength. This is due to a false belief in, or fantasy of, an inner self with free will that you idealize when you succeed and devalue when you fail. When you succeed, it’s as if you’re a unique, special person, which inspires the intent that's necessary to confront adversity and strive hard to overcome challenges. When you fail, it’s as if you’re not "good' enough because you're inherently flawed. Thus you aren’t inspired to generate the strength of intent needed to cope with inner discomforts associated with hard work, delay of gratification, uncertainty, mistakes, criticism, guilt, shame, and most importantly with fear of failure and rejection.

The Resulting Impasse…
Since your ego strength is low, when you most need to feel capable of confronting reality and achieving goals that signify you’re special, self-doubt about being “good” enough dampens the inspiration needed to reach them. Due to weak intent, you can’t cope or strive effectively to achieve the higher goals that you’re dependent on to validate your special qualities. Lacking the inspiration needed to continually reach your goals weakens your ability to feel special on a regular basis.  In other words, because you’re imperfect, you inevitably fall short of producing idealized evidence, which confirms you're not special. You then feel  less confident, can’t exert enough effort, and circle back into a vicious cycle that you try to free yourself from by producing idealized evidence of being special, but which you’re inevitably unable to do. All of this is the consequence of living a life dependent on ego strength based on self-idealization.

The Goal of the Therapy…
The goal of Therapy from the Will is to intuitively know from a subjective vantage point how to generate and sustain a consistently high level of ego strength independently of self-idealization. This is not to be confused with a “big ego,” which enables you to cope with fear and discomfort and strive hard for what’s in your best interest but only when you feel special as a result of your performance matching up with your self-ideals. Rather the goal of Therapy from the Will is achieved through a transformation from a dependency on self-idealization for inner support to a holistic, or harmonious, independency directly capacitated by the will to live. The completion of this transformation facilitates greater integrity, discipline, creativity, productivity and personal growth.

How It Will Help You…
With a unique perspective and an approach that is friendly and pragmatic, Therapy from the Will helps you understand the issues that are preventing you from achieving your goals, why they are happening, how to recognize them, and from a subjective vantage point know how to be at one with the will to live. This enables you to break your dependency by generating ego strength independently of your successes or failure at self-idealization. Optimally relying on both ways (self-centrically and holistically) of generating personal power, or ego strength, results in a much healthier, more optimistic, and successful way of life. I have experienced this profound transformation and I want to share with you my subjective insights that made it possible.


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Greenberg, PhD.
Psychologist, APC
Santa Monica, California

(310) 459-1825

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Therapy From The Will... 

Edwin Greenberg, PhD