409 Quotes About Therapy

The partner of head is heart.Body has no opposite.In body, heart and head are one.

Because alters often do not reveal themselves early in therapy, and it may take several years for a therapist to observe most of the alters...

Gotta uncover before you can recover.

I’m not bilingual, but I am fluent in therapists’ jargon.

The experience of chronic abuse carries within it the gross mislabeling of things. Perpetrators are really "nice daddies." Victims are "evil and seductive" (at the age of three!). Nonprotecting parents are "tired and busy." The survivor makes a giant leap forward when [he or ]she can call abuse by its right name and grasp the concept that what was done was a manifestation of the heart of the perpetrator, not the heart of the victim.

It lessened some of the suffocating weight I carried by finally opening up to a counselor.

She thought she brought a gift of compassion for those exhausted souls who had not received a chest portion from the people who raised them. If compassion and therapy did not work, she could always send her patients to the local pharmacy for drugs.

Learning that we are more than the voices that haunt us can provide hope and serve as a mean of changing our life. As the language of self-awareness is expanded and reinforced we learn that we are capable of choosing whether or not to follow the expectations of others and the mandates of our childhoods and cultures. Thus much of our suffering can be traced back to our stream of thoughts: the voices in our heads and the stories we tell about ourselves.

Don’t be surprised that our bodies react to criticism, rejection and social shaming the same way they do to physical threats. This is because our later evolving social systems were crafted onto preexisting structures dedicated to physical survival. This is also why pain medications and anti inflammatory decrease the pain of social rejection.