28-year-old Afrah is one headstrong individual who has been through many ups and downs during the last couple of months, but who never surrendered to negativity and re-discovered her lost confidence.
Afrah lives in a nuclear family and loves to read and write poetries. Though she is a Product Manager by profession, Afrah never shut doors to tap on her creative side.
“My mind is always inclined towards creativity and art. When Covid hit all of us, I was also one of those people who got affected with the negativity it brought.”
Like many of us, Afrah was finding it hard to deal with the uncertainties around her. She started to feel lost and distracted in her career path too.
Confidence is a quality that one must possess at all times, but we are humans. We have emotions, we feel scared, we might be alone too. Afrah was feeling the same. Despite being surrounded by seven family members, she felt lost.
“I began to undermine myself a lot. My confidence was sinking and I didn’t know what to do about it.”
Afrah often decided to speak about her issue with her friends or family members, but the loss of confidence didn’t let her do that. The sedentary lifestyle due to the lockdown was an additional barrier to Afrah’s journey of re-discovering her true self.
Afrah was feeling overwhelmed by the smallest of things to the point where she started rethinking her career path.
One day, YourDOST became the knight in shining armour for Afrah as she stumbled upon one of the emails from the same thought to herself, “I just need to talk to someone. How about a counselor!?”
Soon enough, Afrah initiated her search to find the right counselor on the YourDOST platform. She began her counseling journey via chat option but soon, she realised video calls would be a better option for her as she wanted to see the counselor.
“Once I started my video sessions with Elisheba from YourDOST through video calls, I understood I have found the right connection.”
Elisheba listened to Afrah’s issues thoroughly and suggested having confidence in everything that she does. Feeling stressed and overwhelmed was something Afrah dealt with on a regular basis, but Elisheba had a solution for that too!
Elisheba suggested breathing exercises to Afrah whenever she felt stressed. Slowly, Afrah saw herself getting up and reaching a neutral point in her daily routine.
“I was also advised to put myself out there by gaining my lost confidence. Talking to Elisheba made me realise which areas of mine I needed an improvement and how can I do that.”
Afrah extends her hearty gratitude to Elisheba for being a friendly and supportive counselor to her. “Don’t worry too much about it. It will be alright.” – is the lesson Afrah took home from Elisheba, and indeed, this is something many of us need to understand and instil in our lives.
“I now have the confidence which I lacked”, said Afrah while summarising her experience with Elisheba. On a scale of 1 to 5, Afrah rates herself at 3, but from all of us at YourDOST, Afrah is already the 5 on 5 rockstar that she is!
Afrah’s Warrior Tips:
1. There are a lot of people going through difficulties, they often don’t show it but I know need help.
2. Therapy provides an unbiased and structured approach to dealing with problems.
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