197 Quotes About Counseling

When a person in your life continuously displays to you they do not care, there comes a point where you may want to start believing them.

Toxic relationships are like a good pasta that has been overcooked.

Quietly, dispassionately, Russell would make sure the senator understood not only the reasons why he should take the same position on the bill that Russell was taking, but the reasons why he should take an opposing position.

Psychotherapy isn't a twentieth-century artifice imposed on nature, but the reinstatement of a natural healing process.

Unfortunately, there is no expiration date on grief

All you need is one safe anchor to keep you grounded when the rest of your life spins out of control

Responding well to others, especially survivors of wrongdoing, may require that we open ourselves to hearing something other than what we expect or want to hear, even when what we hear threatens our ideas about how the world is ordered—as listening to survivor testimony might do. Only a self capable of being jolted out of its mundane complacency is up to the task of both hearing what repair demands and helping to invent new responses to harms that no preexisting remedy fully comprehends.

I found that the same softness which once made me a target now compelled people to trust me with their stories.

A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.