Quotes
“In Hollywood if you don’t have a shrink, people think you’re crazy.”
― Johnny Carson
“Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”
― David Richo
“Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood; don’t go there alone.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Dry
“I’ve realized therapy is incredibly therapeutic.”
― Lisa Schroeder, I Heart You, You Haunt Me
“It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.”
― Nathaniel Branden
“There are many ways of getting strong, sometimes talking is the best way.”
― Andre Agassi, Open
“Sorrow can be a bully.”
― Amy Waldman, The Submission
“Every brain is different. And so must be every course of therapy.”
― Wendy Walker, All Is Not Forgotten
“Like a chemical catalyst that facilitates a reaction between two other substances, the therapeutic relationship catalyzes the transformation of relationships in the lives of clients.”
― Joseph A. Micucci, The Adolescent in Family Therapy: Harnessing the Power of Relationships
“Forget what we became, focus on what we’re capable of becoming.”
― Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
“A psychologist’s job (if it’s done well) is to get you to seriously laugh at yourself.”
― Clifford Cohen
“You still go to therapy?”
“Nah. I gave up years ago.”
“Mental health isn’t for everyone.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go
“Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.”
― Louis Nizer
“The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.”
― Gabor Maté
“[T]he act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.”
― Irvin D. Yalom
“The fear of what might happen stops people but the trauma process is so beautiful and transformational. There is nothing to fear in our emotions, they will not swallow you whole – they will speak to you in profound ways.”
― Adele Theron
“Every person in therapy has a love disorder.”
― John Dufresne, Love Warps the Mind a Little
“I’ve had a lot of therapists, so I’ve had the opportunity to approach my fear in many different ways. I’ve faced it head on and sideways and tried to tiptoe up behind it.”
― Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
“In therapy, the therapist acts as a container for what we daren’t let out, because it is so scary, or what lets itself out every so often, and lays waste to our lives.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“She listened for the pain in my words, not to the narrative itself. She was intuiting what it meant to me, what was most important, what, in that confused mass of experience and yearning she heard in my voice, she could single out to give back.”
― Alice Sebold
“The most important therapeutic capacity is the ability to be present with an open heart and to be grounded in our inner being, in our essence and authentic self, in the meditative quality within, through which we can meet another person. It is to meet that which is already perfect within a person.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, Presence – Working from Within. The Psychology of Being
Therapy can be like a gentle roller coaster ride. —RennieSmith
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