About Getting There
Getting There is here to help you increase your happiness.
Dr. Sue Nesbitt brings extensive experience as both a therapist and university professor, training undergraduate and master’s-level students. In her role as Clinical Coordinator, she provided instruction and supervision for students completing internships across agencies in Chicago and its suburbs. She has designed and facilitated a wide range of programs focused on loss and grief, relationships, happiness, and goal setting. With more than 20 years of volunteer service in both hospice care and correctional facilities, Dr. Nesbitt has demonstrated a strong commitment to community support and service.
In addition, she has presented at professional conferences and has served on both national and local boards, further contributing to the advancement of her field. Given this background you might expect GT to include some form of therapy. This is not the case. What is offered here is shared experiences, and ideas for you to use as suits your needs.
A note:
Getting There is constantly changing even as I write this. Currently, all videos and writings are ones I have done. There are, however, family and friends behind the scenes providing services, ideas, and support. My hope is that as we grow there will be others directly involved in what is posted so there will be more than one author. For now, a friend and colleague has provided the biography above, so you know something about who I am. I’m grateful for this as I found it awkward to try and do it myself.
We look forward to comments and suggestions as we continue to add, subtract, and revise material, authors, and topics.
Sue
Getting There Mission: Increase Happiness
There are many kinds of happiness. Contentment with self and the life one is living is longer lasting than moments of peace or excitement but all three make us happy. Activities and accomplishments give each of us pleasure, another kind of happiness. Getting There offers information, ideas, and strategies designed to provide you with resources as you set and plan your happiness goals of whatever kind.
- Learning should be fun: We strive to include humor, information and food for thought.
- Let us Know: We welcome suggestions and ideas.
- Resources : free or reasonably priced: We want our resources to be available to everyone.
What we cover
- UNDERSTANDING HAPPINESS: We all want to be happy. We offer information and strategies for achieving and maintaining all kinds of happiness,
- SETTING, PLANNING, and REACHING GOALS: Goals can be long or short term, immediate or long standing, temporary or permanent. They include what we want to have or do as well as the person we want to be. We offer ideas and information for deciding on your goals, developing a plan and staying motivated.
- SETBACKS, LOSSES & CHANGE: Even as we gain something new, we experience loss of the old. Every day brings changes. How we adjust, move forward, and be at our best makes a difference. Knowing what s normal along with some steps we can take can help us get through a difficult experience.
- THINKING, FEELING, AND DOING.: The above are the tools we have to work with as we live and grow. Knowing the possibilities and variations of eah can serve us well in pursuing our goals. There is no end to what we can research, experience, and share in these areas. Expect a constant flow of new topics and additions to old topics.