In counseling work, it can be very useful to use “metaphoric truths” to explore abstract ideas and concepts relating to our life struggles.
I often see people with their context like a puzzle piece “matching up” with other puzzle pieces in their lives to create an ideal picture for themselves and the people they care about.
Some of these pieces seem to “click into” places spontaneously. Some require a bit of work to find the right match. Some even try to reshape their puzzle piece, or force their puzzle piece to match up with the bigger picture. We may call this “masking” perhaps. “Masking” is okay short term but can be problematic when “fake it until you make it” does not eventuate. Having said that, if it does “make it”, then good.
The challenge is that the puzzle pieces are not simple 2D pieces but more like 3D, and often dynamic and changing over time. What matches well today, may not match well at all tomorrow. It’s dynamic and messy.
So to succeed and thrive, one has to know:
1. One’s own puzzle piece very well.
2. The nature of the external puzzle pieces well.
3. The final picture of what they want to create or move towards.
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