Over my decades in private practice, I’ve found that if you don’t honestly like your patient, if you’re not rooting for her, the patient senses it and the therapy flounders. There’s a chemical bond between patient and therapist that neither
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“When you agree to keep someone’s secret, you hold their shame.”
― Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
― Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
“I can feel everything and survive. What I thought would kill me, didn’t. Every time I said to myself: I can’t take this anymore—I was wrong. The truth was that I could and did take it all—and I kept surviving. Surviving again and again made me less afraid of myself, of other people, of life. I learned that I’d never be free from pain but I could be free from the fear of pain, and that was enough.”
― Untamed
― Untamed
“His smile made me feel cozy,”
― Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
― Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
“The truest, most beautiful life never promises to be an easy one. We need to let go of the lie that it’s supposed to be.”
― Untamed
― Untamed
“need. Impulses to do anything to keep other people from feeling angry at me. I still need help overriding those impulses. I need help figuring out what two-syllable word best describes my feelings. Telling the truth of my desire, even when I’m ashamed of it. Tolerating other people’s intense feelings. Tolerating my own.”
― Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
― Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
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