409 Quotes About Therapy

In our material world, love can be contaminated and distorted and associated with control, dependency, possession, lust, rejection, jealousy, hurt, abandonment and abuse. This has been the past experience of 'love' for many... Thus, to provide a different model of love is, in itself, therapeutic and healing.

We write to be heard. We write to heal.

The best therapy is pure thoughts.

Even though we have been so influenced by the left hemisphere's ascendency, we also have an inherent capacity to be rooted in the relational right because we are, after all, first, last, and always beings whose embodied brains hunger for connection with others, literally shaping one another's ongoing experience in every moment.

We may find that the words we are naturally drawn toward when we speak to others or ourselves have a great deal to say about our ability to be present with one another.

It sometimes surprises me that people don't find questions addressed to their bodies silly, especially in therapy, but they rarely do

Only if we are able to widen the lens to take in the bigger picture that includes both the outer challenges and the inner distress do we begin to sense that the protectors are in proportion to what is in need of shelter. It is our system's sense that moving the safeguard aside and allowing the implicit to emerge would be more harmful than whatever the protector is doing in this moment.

Writing is therapy for soul!

The signs you ignore in the beginning end up being the reasons you leave later. —Trust yourself—