Do you remember the day ...
The day when you tossed your cap in the air, laughed, and thought of the real money you would finally earn helping others.
The day when you sat with someone, through his pain, and managed to help him to break a smile at the end of the session with him.
Or the day you felt,
'I can't believe I'm paid to help people!' The day when you felt passionate. Purposeful. Joyful.
Let's be honest. That day seems so long ago.
Today as a social worker, you're drowning under the assessments you have to write. The case notes you have to finish. The dreaded bureaucratic hoops you're going to have to jump through for another client.
And if you really touch your heart, you've lost that sense of hope. Passion. Purpose.
Joy.
You just want to get them off your to-do list.
How did it ever turn this way? How did a passionate social worker like you, who was willing to take a lesser pay, work crazy hours, end up wanting to run away from it all?
One word.
Disconnection. You may have grown disconnected from the original why that brought you to social work. The paperwork made you wonder if you were really pushing people to change, or pushing papers.
If you want to reconnect with that fierce passion that first brought you into this calling, if you want to wake up excited again, if you want to break a smile again, 'Becoming Better' was written for you.
Mind you. It's a calling. If you want quick fixes, this is NOT it.
If you touch your heart, and know that deep down, you still want to help, but you're just overwhelmed, wanting to give up, wanting to walk away from it all, please don't.
There's hope.
All over again.
John