Rod’s Reviews > Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed > Status Update

Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and experience something before its meaning becomes apparent

It´s especially important to be the people we want to be now, to become more open and expansive while we´re able

There are rules, and we're trained to adhere to them for a reason... when rules are bent thoughtful intentions, it broadens the definition of what effective treatment can be

If we're cut off from our feelings, just skating on the surface, we don't get peace or joy -we get deadness

... therapy as an existential experience of self-understanding, which is way therapists tailor the treatment to the individual rather than to the problem

In a state of perpetual distraction, they seemed to be losing the ability to be with others and losing their ability to be with themselves

Perhaps men apologize preemptively, by holding their tears back

the truth comes with a cost: the need to face reality

the unconscious has a finely tuned radar system inaccesible to the conscious mind.

it's only in silence that people can truly hear themselves