Rihana's life looked good on the outside, but internally, she was struggling. Major life changes piled up and childhood trauma resurfaced. When she stopped enjoying her favorite things, she realized it was time to ask for help. That decision led to meeting with a counselor at Insight Counseling Centers. What she learned made her feel like herself again.
"I was going through a big life transition. I had just graduated school to be a medical assistant, but I was also still living in a homeless shelter. So I was going through this transition where I didn’t really know what I needed to do, but I knew that something had to change. I knew that once I got into a career, I would have more stability, and I needed tools to be able to handle that and to steward that well."
"Boundaries, self-worth, self-esteem... Those were the biggest things for me. I have a really hard time setting boundaries and saying no. I'm a people-pleaser in a big way, and to this day I still have a really hard time with it, but I am better. Ten times better than I was."
"I had moved, I had just gotten married, and I had just started two new jobs, two part-time jobs. There was just a lot of change in my life in a really short period of time. Working in a church like that, I would kind of consider it very much a helping profession. So, you know, focusing on other people and pouring into people, I was having some stress and anxiety about dealing with that chaos, and I needed a space to kind of speak that and breathe."