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“coping is not about pretending like you never feel sad, angry, or anxious. Instead, it is about noticing those emotions and responding in a way that helps you more than it hurts you. When parents can label their emotions and then visibly take action to cope, they send the message that it’s okay to have feelings and find appropriate ways to respond.”
― Andrea Temkin-Yu, Supporting Your Teen's Mental Health: Science-Based Parenting Strategies for Repairing Relationships and Helping Young People Thrive

“Offering companionship in pain acknowledges that suffering is living through all of us, and in our togetherness we enlarge the heartspace that can hold it with compassion.”
― Tara Brach, Trusting the Gold: Uncovering Your Natural Goodness

“What is most personal is most general.”
― Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person

“There seems every reason to suppose that the therapeutic relationship is only one instance of interpersonal relations, and that the same lawfulness governs all such relationships. Thus it seems reasonable to hypothesize that if the parent creates with his child a psychological climate such as we have described, then the child will become more self-directing, socialized, and mature.”
― Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy