🌱 What If This Season Is Growing You?
🌾 Growth Doesn’t Always Look Like Progress
We don’t always recognize growth while we’re in it. In fact, it often looks nothing like we expect. Growth can feel like standing still. Or unraveling. Or quietly carrying weight no one else sees.
You might be navigating a season that feels unclear, overwhelming, or emotionally quiet—but what if this season is shaping you in ways you won’t understand until later?
In counseling, we often refer to this as the“in-between”—a sacred but uncomfortable space where something is ending, but the next thing hasn’t fully begun. This in-between season may feel unproductive, but it is often wheredeep inner transformationbegins.
🛑 Signs You’re in a Growth Season (Even If It Doesn’t Feel Like It)
In therapy, I work with many people who feel “stuck” or disconnected during life transitions. Here are a few common experiences:
- A door has closed, but the next one isn’t open yet.
- The loss has happened, but the healing hasn’t arrived.
- Life looks “normal” on the outside, but inside, everything’s shifting.
These are seasons where we might question our direction, purpose, or even faith. But labeling them as “stuck” may be missing the bigger picture. In reality, these moments often signal the beginning ofsomething deeper—a quiet shift below the surface.
🌿 Therapy and Faith-Based Counseling During the “In-Between”
Whether you’re attending Christian counseling or a more secular therapy setting, these quieter seasons are often where yourtrue identity begins to take root. You’re not just managing symptoms—you’re being reshaped.
In therapy, we learn to:
- Notice what’s changing, even when it’s subtle
- Develop emotional resilience, not just relief
- Integrate our faith, healing, and identity
- See silence as sacred, not empty
If you’re seeking Christian therapy, this time can also become aspiritually fertile ground—a place where God tends to your heart beneath the surface, even when you can’t feel it.
🌼 Tiny Signs of Growth: More Than Meets the Eye
Sometimes we expect growth to be loud or obvious. But in reality, it often starts with small internal wins:
Emotional Growth
You caught a self-defeating thought—and responded with the same kindness you’d offer a close friend.
Mental Shift
You challenged an irrational belief—even if just once.
Physical Awareness
You noticed tension in your chest—and took a deep, grounding breath.
Relational Boundaries
You said, “That didn’t sit right with me” instead of brushing it off.
Behavioral Change
You wanted to numb—but instead chose something restorative, even briefly.
These aren’t breakthroughs. They’re what I call“micro-moments of insight.”And they’re powerful.
đź’ˇ Why Small Shifts Matter: The 1% Rule
As James Clear writes inAtomic Habits:
“Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.”
Even a 1% shift every day adds up. A new thought here. A different response there. Before long, you begin to notice yourdefault settings changing—not through force, but through consistency.
This is how real change works:not all at once, but layer by layer.
🌳 Faith and the Unseen Work of Growth
“I will give you hidden treasures, riches stored in secret places…”
— Isaiah 45:3
This verse beautifully captures what spiritual and emotional growth can feel like. The mostvaluable changes happen below the surface.
You may not see it yet. But something is being tended to in this season.
✨ When You Feel Like Nothing Is Changing
If you’re in a season where you’re doing the work—praying, going to therapy, showing up—but not seeing results yet, take heart:
- You’re buildingspiritual and emotional muscle
- You’reretraining your nervous system
- You’re learning totrust the process, not the pace
God often works in the stillness. Therapy helps us slow down enough to notice.
đź“ť Reflection Prompt
Take a moment to write down your answer to this:
“What is one thing I did today that moved me toward healing, clarity, or peace—even if no one else noticed?”
This simple practice trains your brain to notice your own growth.
It reminds you:something sacred is forming, even here.
🧠How Therapy Can Help You in These Seasons
Whether you’re navigating spiritual uncertainty, burnout, anxiety, or emotional exhaustion, therapy gives you space to:
- Reflect and reconnect with yourself
- Develop practical tools for emotional health
- Identify patterns keeping you stuck
- Rebuild your inner life with intention and faith
AtRefreshing Waters Counseling, our therapists help you walk through these uncertain seasons with compassion, insight, and grounded care—integratingevidence-based toolsandChristian valuesfor whole-person healing.
🙌 You’re Not Alone—And You’re Not Stuck
This isn’t the end of your story. It’s a chapter ofunseen growth.
One you’ll one day look back on with gratitude—not because it was easy, but because it prepared you for what came next.
đź“Ł Call to Action
If this season feels heavy, confusing, or slow—know that you don’t have to go through it alone.
We’re here to walk with you.
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Jillian LaDoux
Jillian LaDoux is a compassionate, creative, and skilled mental health professional committed to walking alongside clients as they navigate life's most vulnerable, transitional, and transformative moments. Her integrative and trauma-informed approach helps individuals move toward healing with insight, empowerment, and emotional resilience.
