Susan Jeffers
On 27 October 2012, Susan Jeffers died in Los Angeles, bringing to a close the life of a psychologist, psychotherapist, and author who had spent her career working within the self-help field.
Born on 3 March 1938 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, Jeffers was a United States citizen who pursued a sustained path through formal education. She studied at Hunter College and subsequently at Columbia University, before undertaking further academic work at Pennsylvania State University. That engagement with multiple institutions of higher learning formed the basis of her dual standing as both a psychologist and a psychotherapist, credentials she held alongside her identity as a writer.
Writing in English, Jeffers worked as an author of self-help literature. Her training in psychology and psychotherapy informed her output in that genre, and she produced writing that drew on her professional formation as a clinician. The combination of academic credentials and activity as a published writer in the self-help field characterized her professional life as a whole.
Jeffers died at the age of seventy-four. Her educational background, spanning Hunter College, Columbia University, and Pennsylvania State University, provided the foundation for a career conducted as a psychologist, psychotherapist, and writer of self-help literature in English. It is that record — of clinical credentials and published work in the self-help genre — that the facts of her life most directly support.
Quotes by Susan Jeffers
Susan Jeffers's insights on:
Remove those 'I want you to like me' stickers from your forehead and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good -on your mirror!
One step at a time is enough for me. Impatience is simply a way of beating yourself up.
Success is... living a full and balanced life in partnership with others to create a joyful feeling of love, contribution, appreciation and abundance, despite how our endeavors may turn out.
When a difficult situation comes into your life, it is possible to tune in to your mind and say, ?Okay, choose.? Are you going to make yourself miserable or content? Are you going to visualize scarcity or abundance? Are you going to put yourself down for getting angry with your husband or are you simply going to notice what insecurity you were feeling at the time and discuss it with him? The choice is definitely yours. Pick the one that contributes most to your aliveness and growth.
Dear God, I trust that no matter what happens in my life, it is for my highest good. And no matter what happens in the lives of those I love, it is for their highest good. From all things that are put before us all, we shall become stronger and more loving people. I am grateful for all the beauty and opportunity you put into my life. And in all that I do, I shall seek to be a channel for your love.
So commit! Commit yourself to pushing through the fear and becoming more than you are at the present moment. The you that could be is absolutely colossal.