Working to restore our voice with members of our first family can be a terrific learning experience. We didn't choose these difficult folks, but, as adults, how we talk to them is up to us. Observing and changing our part in family conversations is one royal road to change. In other words, if you can learn to speak clearly and to respond in a new way with your difficult mother or sister, then other relationships will be a piece of cake.
Social media is a hotbed for insecurities. In my practice, I’ve actually seen people break up relationships over fights about social media. This is kind of a new era of marital and relationship conflict. It all comes down to intention.
The signs you ignore in the beginning end up being the reasons you leave later. —Trust yourself—
Do you know my dragon?' I ask. 'I do,' she says, 'and it is time we get him out of your head. He doesn't belong there.
Seek the ones you love. --- Only therapy.
If we can see the scientific viewpoint as one way of perceiving rather than as offering the only or superior truth, then we can learn from these discoveries without shifting into a more mechanical viewpoint ourselves.
[His notes] may well proceed from a psychoanalytic theory. But how is the theory being tested or controlled? How can it be said to be scientific?
Catholic education and law schools provide me with a lot of miserable people as psychotherapy clients. I should be grateful. These people are looking for rescue from their education.
My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.
My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.
Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.
I've had a lot of cognitive behavioural therapy, and am having a family now.
Cleaning is therapy for me. I'm not ashamed of holding the duster or broom.
Coloring is relaxing even for adults - and cheap therapy.
Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
In the past, when we've tried gene therapy, we haven't had tools that have allowed targeted gene correction.
I have a background in counseling because I've been to a lot of therapy.
Performing is my therapy, to become different people onstage.
There is no standard 'therapeutic process,' since there are so many different schools of therapy.
I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.
