Her son loved her, but she never managed to get him to believe in God, because although you might be able to drum religion into people, you can’t teach faith.
“Of course, therapists aren’t persuaders. We can’t convince an anorexic to eat. We can’t convince an alcoholic not to drink. We can’t convince people not to be self-destructive, because for now, the self-destruction serves them. What we can do is try to help them understand themselves better and show them how to ask themselves the right questions until something happens — either internally or externally — that leads them to do their own persuading.”
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
“For a society that constantly claims we shouldn’t make any distinctions between men and women, we sure spend an awful lot of time defining exactly what those differences are.”
― Things My Son Needs to Know About The World: From the New York Times Bestselling Author of Anxious People and My Friends
― Things My Son Needs to Know About The World: From the New York Times Bestselling Author of Anxious People and My Friends
“We grow in connection with others. Everyone needs to hear that other person’s voice saying, I believe in you. I can see possibilities that you might not see quite yet. I imagine that something different can happen, in some form or another. In therapy we say, Let’s edit your story.”
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
“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.”
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
“Don’t glorify the events of your life and try to give them meaning. There is no meaning. Life means nothing. Death means nothing. But she didn’t always think that way.”
― The Maidens
― The Maidens
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