Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff > Quotes

“...if people ever knew who walks among us freely, they’d never leave their homes.”
― Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff, Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

“There are some things that are so hardwired, no amount of counseling, psychotherapy, or medication will help. Evil is one of those things. Pedophilia is another.”
― Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff, Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

“So, here I am, the raggedy-assed kid who ran into a library for sanctuary and came out knowing that even Ugly Ducklings can find family, wicked witches can be foiled, and Leif the Lucky was right. No matter what—sail on.”
― Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff, Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

“I'd imagined my job would involve playing jump rope and weaving lanyards, but, instead, I'd landed inside a jail for kids.”
― Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff, Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

“In “therapy” language, it’s called taking a one-down position, my own version of She Stoops to Conquer.”
― Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff, Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

“I knew from experience how one learns to cry without making a sound. It takes a lot of practice.”
― Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff, Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

“It’s been my experience that, sometimes, when a female client speaks in a childish or baby-like voice, she may have a history of sexual abuse.”
― Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff, Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

“When it comes to suicide, it’s all about keeping the person alive until hope returns.”
― Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff, Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

“It’s far easier to modify behavior, thoughts, and feelings before years of abuse hammer the spirit into a hardened mass of pain.”
― Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff, Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

“Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison and her latest book is called The Fire Within.”
― Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff, Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

“Every therapist I know carries on a dual conversation while they’re with a client. The first conversation is what we say out loud; the second is what we’re thinking but don’t say.”
― Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff, Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

“never sit between a client and the door, because there’s something subliminally reassuring when a client sees they can easily leave the room.”
― Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff, Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

“My mantra is to give hope and comfort, share knowledge, do no harm, join the journey.”
― Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff, Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

“Truthfully, many of us entered the field to try and understand what had happened to us and how we could heal ourselves.”
― Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff, Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

“I was aware my own anger was carrying me onto thin ice because, like Natalie, I was mad. Jane was facing a serious health issue, because someone who should have known better hadn’t taken the time to find out what the problem really was.”
― Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff, Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist