• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Home
  • About Denise
  • Forms
  • Fees & Policies
    • Skype Appointments Available
  • Online Classes
  • Upcoming Events
  • Contact
  • 713-823-4001

Denise O’Doherty

Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Drug and Alcohol Counselor, Registered Nurse

  • Relationship Counseling
    • Couples Therapy
    • Marriage Counseling & Family Therapy
    • Premarital Counseling
    • Domestic Abuse Counseling
    • IMAGO Relationship Therapy
    • LGBTQ Couples Therapy
  • Substance Abuse
    • Alcohol & Drug Addiction
    • SALCE Evaluations
  • Gender Identity / LGBTQ
    • A Guide For Parents of Transgender Children
    • Parents of Transgender Children
    • Gender Related Topics
      • Gender Dysphoria
      • Cross-Dressing
      • Adult Children of Transgender Parents
    • LGBTQ Related Topics
      • LGBTQ Issues
      • Corporate Sensitivity Training
  • Other Areas of Practice
    • Anxiety/Depression
    • BiPolar Disorder
    • Codependency/Personal Boundaries
    • Grief Counseling / Grief Therapy
    • Love Addiction/Love Avoidance
    • Overcoming Shame /Increasing Self-Esteem
    • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
    • Dissociative Disorders
  • Blog
  • Search
You are here: Home / areas of practice / “Change and Growth” for the New Year

January 6, 2014 By Denise O'Doherty

“Change and Growth” for the New Year

” If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, gail-sheehywe are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, “taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. The real fear should be the opposite course.”

~ Gail Sheehy, author, New York

The New Year is a good time to think about change and what you’d like to see happen in your life. What attributes would you like to gain, what changes would you like to see? We may have outgrown people, patterns, expectations and situations. Are there people, attitudes, behaviors you’d like to release? Is it time to evaluate what is working in your life and what is not? It takes courage and strength to consider taking new steps or to create a new direction. What would you have to give up to get what you really want? If anything were possible, anything at all, what changes and possibilities would you like to experience and see happen in your life?

Filed Under: areas of practice

Social Media

FacebookTwitterGoogle +YoutubeLinkedin

Houston, TX 77019 | 713-823-4001 | Sitemap | Privacy Policy

© 2022 All Rights Reserved. | Maintained by Levy Marketing