8 Quotes by Pauline Boss

Sadness is treated with human connection.

I can live with something meaningless... As long as I have something else in my life that is meaningful.

La familia que existe en la cabeza de las personas es más importante que la que se registra en su libreta de tomador del censo...La experiencia de la inmigración proporciona una visión especial sobre cómo las personas aprenden a prescindir de aquello a que estaban acostumbradas para poder adoptar lo nuevo.

Fantaseamos lo que no entendemos...Las situaciones que menos se comprenden excitan el inconsciente

People who can accept the situation without having to master it often find it easier to be spontaneous and flexible about changing long-standing patterns...

From those women I also learned that a terminal illness is less distressful when it is attributed to the natural cycle of life rather than to failure. The secret to coping with the pain of an uncertain loss, regardless of culture or personal beliefs, is to avoid feeling helpless. This is accomplished by working to change what we can and accepting what we cannot.

Perhaps if we could be more flexible about family roles and who the family is, we would have less ambivalence toward loved ones were partially absent or present.

Unless there is some time for being together psychologically – emotionally and cognitively – the psychological family may disappear. Without time for talking, laughing, arguing, sharing stories, and showing affection, we are just a collection of people who share the same refrigerator.