Carl Rogers on Resolving Inner Conflict

SUNDAY LETTERS ISSUE #112

Everyone suffers.

I think it is an inevitable aspect of life.

Our existence is dichotomous and paradoxical and our job, I believe, is not necessarily to remove these aspects of life from our experience, but to learn to cope, to process and to deal with them.

How else can we learn?

How is it possible to know shades of white if we do not know shades of black?

Hot-cold, in-out, up-down, happy-sad, good-bad…life and death?

When we are face to face with some of life’s greatest challenges, we often find that trying to deny or rid ourselves of the experience just makes it worse.

Therefore, our only option is to face down the demon.

Carl Rogers, humanist psychologist and therapist, held that the client-therapist relationship was (or should be) a human one, not a transactional one, and it was central to the healthy recovery of the one who suffers.

You may have missed it during the week, but two interesting things occurred in the development of Sunday Letters, the content I produce, and the site in general.

I’ve been writing online since 2009, and Sunday Letters since 2015. I enjoy it. It allows me explore new ideas and share thoughts on things that I believe are valuable.

Every article (like today’s) takes many hours to produce. 8, 10, 12 hours is not unusual.

And it costs — a lot!

Last year I shelled out €3.5k to keep the site alive and cover the cost of digital tools, software etc etc.

I can’t sustain it.

And now I need to try garner your support to maintain Sunday Letters and continue the work I do.

There’s a small cost (€8/mth) and for that, I’ve put together the following rewards and perks…

I’m not interested in making a mint, all I’m trying to do is cover costs, and if you can help me do that it would mean more than the money.

But I think you know that already.

The thing is, I can’t keep it lit without your help.

Do you enjoy Sunday Letters?
Do you value independent writing?
Can you support for the cost of a coffee and a croissant per mth?

Finally today, I wrote and published a short guide on Resilience on Amazon.

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