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Is Therapy delayed, Therapy denied?

We are all familiar with the law maxim: Justice delayed is justice denied. Can the same be said of therapy? My story with therapy started early this year when I attended Joshua Resource Center(JRC) inaugural event. I had planned to attend as an audience.Though I didn’t know I was suffering from the same malady as a Kenyan politician, the irresistible urge to talk at every and any event. The event’s organizers were gracious enough to slot me in, and I talked about my upcoming book on Suicide Prevention, Skip The Rope. I took to the podium after the last “legitimate” speaker. As the event was coming to a close, I was still basking in the applause when my euphoria bubble got busted. “You need to start coming for therapy!” Mrs. Isabel, the JRC founder, informed me in a terse though warm manner. Were my psychological wounds that obvious? I knew I needed therapy, but hearing it from someone else made me feel a certain way. At least she should have said something about my upcoming book. I had...
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Introducing Your Third Place~ (JRC)

"Everybody have somewhere They go when they feel there's no way,out" When Chris Martin sang those words in his song Chillspot , he was epitomizing American sociologist Ray Oldenburg's concept of third place. Sociologist Ray Oldenburg introduced the concept of the third place in 1980, when the first place (home) and the second place (workplace) were distinct. In present-day society (especially after the COVID-19 pandemic), the line between the first place (home) and the second place (workplace) has become blurred, as people continue working from home.  Even with the continuous overlap between the first place (home) and the second place (workplace), the concept of the third place hasn't changed as much since 1980. The third place was and still is the social surroundings that are separate from the two usual social environments, of the first place (home) and the second place (workplace). Examples of third places include cafes, clubs, libraries, theaters, parks, gyms,...
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