A viewer asks: “My stepson of 24 struggles to make progress in life. He becomes overwhelmed at job interviews, has had minimal romantic relationships, and shows no signs of being able to support himself or contribute to the running of the home. He becomes ill or angry when challenged about any of this and spends a lot of time watching TV in his room, on his phone, or gaming. To what extent are these difficulties karmically created, character traits that need development, or signs of mental illness that needs medical intervention?” What can we tell him?

We do not want to lead unduly as there are human approaches that can have value with respect to counseling, coaching, or therapy. The key is to overcome complacency and come to grips with the reality that he needs to get his life going. He will not have a safe berth handed to him for the duration but will eventually have to make his way, and to do so will need to face whatever that means to him personally in terms of handling the stress and taking the initiative to promote himself as a candidate for employment, and so forth. There are many individuals who are lagging in their maturity, and that has deep origins in manipulation, a kind of overlay of complacency as well as oftentimes much inner turmoil within the deep subconscious from being triggered by surreptitious programming to generate fear, uncertainty, and self-doubt, all of which can be crippling. You are seeing a combination of liabilities here, both from other lifetimes as well as the ongoing exposure to all of the bombardment of dark messaging and deep subconscious programming emanating from all the screens people look at all day long. The most effective solution is work with the Lightworker Healing Protocol and Deep Subconscious Mind Reset protocol to help with his healing and realignment. That is a long-term proposition. In the meanwhile, you and his mother can have some frank discussions with him to explore what he is willing to do to advance his own interests, in a concrete fashion, with the goal of coming up with a plan of action for him to survey potential avenues and define what the requisites might be to develop a career path that could be self-sustaining. There is always difficulty in knowing what is possible and what is truly beyond the capability of one who is suffering intensely from many inner limitations, but the only way you will find out is testing the waters. Wanting to be a change agent, to be a kind of guide and mentor, from the vantage point of greater life experience, is a positive role to play. All you can do is make the effort and, if done with love, understanding, and encouragement, you will at least know you are doing what you can to help him be more motivated. Meeting complacency with complacency is a form of surrender.