409 Quotes About Therapy

More important than the words or silence is my inner stance of making room for what is stirring within him, becoming alertly still enough inside that his inner world senses safety, the precursor to him opening into vulnerability.

Modern Western democracies no longer engage in such despotic assaults on freedom, Instead, they deprive people of liberty indirectly, by relieving them of responsibility for their own (allegedly self-injurious) actions and calling the intervention "treatment.

no recovery from trauma is possible without attending to issues of safety, care for the self, reparative connections to other human beings, and a renewed faith in the universe. The therapist's job is not just to be a witness to this process but to teach the patient how.

Dogs needed no words to console you. Dogs were the ultimate practitioners of the therapy of touch. Dogs knew and accepted the hard realities of life that human beings could not acknowledge until those obvious truths were exhaustively described with words, and even then there was often more bitter acknowledgment than humble acceptance.

I've always had this feeling," Henry says, "that all dogs are really therapy dogs.

Our time is up.One hour on the dot.Connect the dots.It’s a puppy dog.The kind you wantedwhen you were a kid.The kind you got.The kind that got ran overthe day you turned sixand realized how you lose things.And I’m not talking about your keys.

It was regarded as almost outside the proper interest of an analyst to give systematic attention to a person's real experiences.

It might be possible that 'triggered' may not be the most helpful word ... For me, there is a felt sense of violence in this word, while 'touched and awakened' more accurately describes what happens to these sequestered neural nets. This gentler wording helps us cultivate a sense of meeting the experience every time we are so 'touched' with an appreciation for what it might be offering.

To embrace love, we risk heartbreak. To resist love, we risk emptiness.