Joy

“We can help patients find peace, but maybe a different kind than they imagined they'd find when they started treatment. ... I know that therapy won't make all my problems disappear, prevent new ones from developing, or ensure that I'll always act from a place of enlightenment. Therapists don't perform personality transplants; they just help to take the sharp edges off. A patient may become less reactive or critical, more open and able to let people in. In other words, therapy is about understanding the self that you are. But part of getting to know yourself is to unknow yourself- to let go of the limiting stories you've told yourself about who you are so that you aren't trapped by them, so you can live your life and not the story you've been telling yourself about your life.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

“I'd need to accept that his future and mine, his present and mine, were now separate and that all we had left in common was our history.”
― lori gottlieb

“Our future is the sum of an equation that is part intention and part circumstance. And our intentions could shift. Or split.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

“I will run errands and buy gifts. I will stand in line at the post office. I will eat bread that I have baked.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible