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Think Forward to Thrive: Mary's Story By Jennice Vilhauer, Ph.D. M AHY WAS A TINTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD singer-songwriter struggling with depression and anxiety. She had recently moved from Canada to Los Angeles with her boyfriend of almost four years so that he could pursue his interest in screenwriting and she could pursue her singing career. By most musicians' standards, Mary had already experienced a fair amount of success. Several yeats earlier she had been signed to a major record label and produced an album, but because the album wasn't promoted well, the sales hadn't been high and the label had chose not to renew her contract. Even though Mary had been singing since she was a child, she no longer got any pleasure from working on her music, and she was feeling at a loss over what to do with her life. Mary was supporting herself by waiting tables in a small restaurant, a job that she found very unsatisfying, given that she had a bachelor's degree in art history from a top college In addition to feeling unhappy with her professional life, Mary was also unhappy with her personal life. She hadn' made any new friends since her move and she felt that her life outside work was empty. She didn't want to talk to new people because she feared they would see her as a failure. She was also frustrated with her boyfriend, who she had lived with for more than three years, because he had not yet pro posed; she felt that he avoided the subject of marriage. Mary did not have much of a relationship with her family, either She felt her parents were disappointed in her because they had worked hand to put her through college and she wasn't working in a real job. Her fear of disapproval and criticism often made her imitable, and she could be short-tempered with her parents, which made her feel guilty, so she often avoided talking to them. Mary spent a good deal of her day thinking about all the unhappy ancas of her life. She had very little energy and had difficulty getting out of bed because she dreaded facing each day. When she opened her eyes in the morning, she would start to list all the things in her life that made her unhappy She felt like a failure at music and believed that maybe it was time to give in to her family's pressure to get a real job but she didn't know what other kind of career to pursue because nothing for interesting to her. She also worried that, because of her depression, her boyfriend would leave her and she would be completely alone. She felt trapped and unmotivated, and she had a hard time seeing any way for things to improve Mary's first task was to learn about her thought processo that she could understand how her thinking was keeping her feeling stock and unhappy. She leamed first to understand that her thinking was a valuable resource that contributed directly to the life she was creating Also, by paying attention to her emotions, she leared to identify how she was using this resource. She learned that, when she was feeling bad. it was a direct result of her focusing her thoughts on the areas of her life in which she was unhappy, and she learned to recognize that as long as she kept doing so, she would When Mary was able to identify what she wanted, she not generate any new ideas about how to realize her desires. started to develop concrete goals for hersdf and learned She then learned the sicill of redirecting her thoughts. She how to create new expectations that brought her doser to created a list of things that she could focus on to generate where she wanted to be. Instead of believing that because positive feelings, and she kept the list with her so that she her music carcer had not been as successful as she wanted could pull it out when she needed it. the past it was doomed to failure in The list reminded her of all the wanted aspects of her life and would take her Mary learned to use what the future, she chose to create a ne future expectation by initiating the thoughts in a better direction whenever she didn't want to help new thought that she could succes she started a downward spiral. This if she tried hard enough. She worke. allowed her to improve her mood and her identify what she did to grow this new thought about regain some perspective. Next, Mary learned to understand want, and she learned her future into a belief by taking as many actions as she could that were how her thinking was directly affecting that when she focused on consistent with the new thought. She her choices. She saw that she was cre- also used many techniques and strat- ating negative future projections based what she did want; her egies, such as having a conversation on past experiences, then engaging in mind would generate with herself as a successful singer. behavior consistent with what she was which made her future goal seem expecting, thereby creating self-fulfill- ideas and solutions to help morc tangible. When she ran into ing prophecies. She was able to see that obstacles-such as not having enough she was fearful of failing at her music her achieve her goals. money-to her new goal of producing Career because her first album had been her own album on an independent unsuccessful; therefore, she wasn't putting any effort into label, instead of focusing on the problem she didn't want her career, guaranteeing future failure. She also learned that, she maintained a successful mind-set and immediately began because she feared criticism and rejection, she was withdraw- generating the solutions she did want. Mary learned to ing and acting in a way that was making her boyfriend and embrace cach obstacle as an opportunity to grow, and within her family more likely to criticize and reject het. six months she had found funding for her new album, Mary learned to use what she didn't want to help her hired a music engineer and a designer for her new website, identify what she did want, and she learned that when she and produced two new songs. She was well on her way to focused on what she did want; her mind would generate creating the future she wanted. ideas and solutions to help her achieve her goals. Every time As Mary began to feel more empowered and more she had a thought about something she didn't want, she hopeful about her future, her depression subsided rapidly. didn't allow her thinking to stop there, as she had in the She looked forward to getting out of bed in the morning past. When she felt the communication with her boyfriend because she was focused on creating the things she desired. wasn't going well, instead of staying focused on the lack of As a result, every area of her life began to improve, and she communication and how bad it made her feel, she reminded began to thrive. A herself that what she really wanted in the situation was to communicate effectively with him, and she tried to think This story was excerpted from the book Thist Forward to Thurine. copyright 2014 by Jennice Villaver, Ph.D. and is sepeinted with of ways to make this happen. She made a conscious effort permission from New World Library, hpewworldlibeary.com to start telling her boyfriend what she liked about him and Jack VILER PID i poychologist and the director of the Adult their relationship, and tried focusing discussions on ways to Outpatient Pychotherapy Programa Emory University, she has improve the relationship as opposed to always complaining more than twelve years experience working with clients. She lives in about what was making her unhappy. Atlanta, Georgia and her website is hopel/futuredirectedtherapy.com