Working on yourself involves the process of self-improvement, which focuses on strengthening and understanding one’s capabilities, thinking habits, perceptions, and self-awareness. Personal growth and development involve self-reflective methods that focus on using current and new skills and abilities to reach goals or solve certain issues.
Personal development can include working on mental and physical health, developing collective awareness and certain skills, and achieving professional accomplishment. Working towards getting to a comfortable place with yourself and continuing to grow and strive for the best version of yourself is essential.
Personal Growth and Development Involves Working On:
- How we want to live our lives and our lifestyle
- Finding our purpose in life
- Exploring our career and family life
- The relationships we strive to want and have
- Certain values we want to maintain and endorse
- Standards we have and what we hope for in our lives
Personal growth and development require investing time, effort, and energy in order to gain an understanding of oneself to move towards making changes. Working on ourselves is an ongoing empowering process that can allow meaningful change to occur. Personal growth can continue to increase as we remain open to learning new things about ourselves.
What are the Three Types of Personal Development?
Personal development requires an enduring process of self-improvement. It also involves making significant modifications to improve and better our lives.
The three main types of personal development are:
- Emotional development: focuses on one’s sense of understanding circumstances and self-worth and involves gaining insights about themselves.
- Mental development: concentrates on problem-solving, communication abilities, and critical-thinking skills.
- Physical development: focuses on a person’s physical fitness and overall health as it involves activities that improve strength and durability.
How Do We Help with Personal Growth and Development?
We assist clients who want to enrich their work and life balance, improve relationships in their lives, work on their self-esteem, build healthy boundaries, and help them reach personal goals. We utilize psychoeducation, setting specific goals, awareness of personal skills and resilience, organizational tactics, creative outlets and achievements, and healthy, effective self-talk.
At Healing Time Therapy, we support and guide clients to get to know themselves at a deeper level in order to work on their emotional, physical, and mental health to achieve and become the best version of themselves. We guide clients to develop their own personal values and beliefs, improve and strengthen their capabilities, and grow into a version of themselves that is rewarding and fulfilling.
