Therapy and Achievement

It is possible to be successful in one’s work life and not feel good about it. Success, as is well known, requires drive, talent, hard work, skill, and devotion. It can be confusing to realize that so much can be poured into work and a very good result obtained without yielding the kind of pleasure and satisfaction that should be the reward of so much effort.

With therapy, successful people can confront and reduce the gap between their achievements and their feeling about themselves. In the process, events in a person’s life can emerge that have acquired a meaning that makes it hard to enjoy one’s success later on. Sensitive exploration of difficult early experiences can make a big difference in depriving those experiences of their power to impoverish the present.