409 Quotes About Therapy

There is no doubt that I am selective in my listening, hence "directive" if people wish to accuse me of this. I am centered in the group member who is speaking, and am unquestionably much less interested in the details of his quarrel with his wife, or of his difficulties on the job, or his disagreement with what has just been said, than in the meaning these experience have for him now and the feeling they arouse in him. It is to these meanings and feelings that I try to respond.

This book and my work are a way of adding meaning and commitment to my life. It also honors the child inside myself who was never understood or accepted by me until my journey into myself began and continues".

I have found that much that happens in supervision/consultation focuses on what needs to happen next. There can be a sense of the person under consideration becoming a static object to be analyzed, and then advice may be offered about how that person could/should be shaped in a certain (presumably healthier) way.

let's ask our systems how they might let us know when we are taking that step into left-hemisphere dominance ...Often, the respectful gesture of simply pausing to pose this curiosity is enough. Our systems will respond as and when they can.

In no time at all, I find myself crying again. It's impossible to resist the kindness of strangers. Someone who looks at you, who doesn't know you, who tells you it's okay, whatever you did, whatever you've done: you suffered, you hurt, you deserve forgiveness.

I've observed a movement within psychotherapy, trauma therapy specifically, where therapists are discarding the idea of forgiveness. I think this misses the point. We don't want victims forgiving their attackers for having attacked them, but we do want them forgiving themselves for having been attacked. This is where healing begins.

Neurons create soul, soul then reorganizes those neurons, then those reorganized neurons make the soul evolve.

Born of neurons, soul is the very essence of being - soul is the very foundation of your existence - your psychological existence, from which all your physical prowess and progress manifest.

Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.