Best 257 quotes in «therapy quotes» category

Working with people is basically not a question of formal education; working with people is a question of energy and awareness. Everyone can basically work with people. It is a question of developing a presence and a quality to work from. It is also about discovering our own unique way to be and work with people from our authentic inner being. The most important healing- and therapeutic ability is the capacity to be present. To be present means to develop a presence and a quality to work from. It means to be present with an open and relaxed heart, and to be grounded in our inner being, in the meditative quality within. Presence means to work from a meditative quality, from an inner "yes"-quality, from a state of non-doing. It is to be present for another person as a supporting light, as a supporting presence. Meditation is the way to deepen our capacity to be present, and explore how to bring the meditative presence into the healing- and therapeutic process. It is about developing a meditative presence and quality, to develop the inner "yes"-quality, the silence and emptiness within ourselves, the inner source of healing and wholeness, the capacity to surrender to life.

Writing fiction has always, for me, been an alchemy of turning pain into poetry, ugliness into beauty. It has been a kind of redemption.

Writing has always been therapy for me. When life cuts me, I bleed on paper.

Writing is therapy for soul!

Writing quotes is physiotherapy for the brain.

Writing quotes is therapy for my damaged brain.

Writing started out as a kind of therapy for me. I was bullied mercilessly in high school, and I lived vicariously through Kitty. She was everything I wanted to be; strong, smart, witty, and above all else, she didn't care what other people thought about her. But after a while, she started to take on a personality of her own, and I was suddenly more interested in her story than I was in mine.

Chocolate is cheaper than therapy, and you don't need an appointment.

You’re allowed to feel however you feel. Let yourself feel it [...] And however you feel is normal.

Your repressed feelings desperately try to climb to the surface but fail to do so, and in therapy we seek to reveal -- to uncloak, if you will -- these unconscious desires, the things that your mind tries to repress, those secrets of your soul.

Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego wants to keep it repressed. To the compromise is anxiety.

Conventional cancer therapy is so toxic and dehumanizing that I fear it far more than I fear death from cancer.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

Friends are the best therapy.

I don't care what Tom Cruise says about therapy.

Effective therapies treat the whole body as a unit.

Going into therapy doesn't guarantee poop on toast.

Have I had therapy? I went to a yoga class once.

I just try to live a moderate life of always checking and trying to be the best person I can be and I'm in therapy and am always working on something.

If you break your knee, you have therapy on your knee, and it's the same for your heart.

I genuinely love to be by myself, but at the same time, it's such a relief to know that I have another person's head who I can go into and whose life I can live. It's kind of an escape route, almost like therapy. It's refreshing to know that I can go back to a place where I don't have to be myself.

I'm lucky to be alive. It took three years of therapy to recover but I did it.

I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life

Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy.

It's weird, I actually like doing interviews now. Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.

I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.

Just putting my uniform on keeps me going. Being able to get out there keeps me going. That's the best therapy.

Laughter is therapy-an instant vacation.

Life is like therapy - real expensive and no guarantees.

I'm not an economist, and I'm not a proponent of shock therapy.

In therapy , the therapist acts as a container for what we daren't let out, because it is so scary, or what lets itself out every so often, and lays waste to our lives.

My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there.

Physical therapy is part of my offseason routine. That has helped me greatly.

Shopping at any level is a bit of therapy for my medulla oblongata.

You have to ask yourself a lot of questions and probably go to therapy to make sure that you're not someone who's in love with themselves. And also if you're vain enough, then you know that is a bad look!

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap.

Therapy is often a matter of tipping the first domino.

When you put someone on therapy, you lower the level of virus such that it makes it very difficult for them to infect others.

You can stay in therapy your whole life, but you've got to live life and not talk about life.

A combination of fine tea, enchanting objects and soothing surroundings exerts a therapeutic effect by washing away the corrosive strains and stress of modern life. [... It] induces a mood that is spiritually refreshing [and produces] a genial state of mind.

Admitting the need for help may also compound the survivor's sense of defeat. The therapists Inger Agger and Soren Jensen, who work with political refugees, describe the case of K, a torture survivor with severe post-traumatic symptoms who adamantly insisted that he had no psychological problems: "K...did not understand why he was to talk with a therapist. His problems were medical: the reason why he did not sleep at night was due to the pain in his legs and feet. He was asked by the therapist...about his political background, and K told him that he was a Marxist and that he had read about Freud and he did not believe in any of that stuff: how could his pain go away by talking to a therapist?

A fundamental approach to life transformation is using social media for therapy; it forces you to have an opinion, provides intellectual stimulation, increases awareness, boosts self-confidence, and offers the possibility of hope.

All Hellenistic schools seem to define [wisdom] in approximately the same terms: first and foremost, as a state of perfect peace of mind. From this viewpoint, philosophy appears as a remedy for human worries, anguish, and misery brought about, for the Cynics, by social constraints and conventions; for the Epicureans, by the quest for false pleasures; for the Stoics, by the pursuit of pleasure and egoistic self-interest; and for the Skeptics, by false opinions. Whether or not they laid claim to the Socratic heritage, all Hellenistic philosophers agreed with Socrates that human beings are plunged in misery, anguish, and evil because they exist in ignorance. Evil is to be found not within things, but in the value judgments with people bring to bear upon things. People can therefore be cured of their ills only if they are persuaded to change their value judgments, and in this sense all these philosophies wanted to be therapeutic.

Although false memory psychologists point to therapy sessions as the setting in which people commonly determine that they forgot, and then remembered, abuse. Elliott (1997) found that the majority of people who had forgotten a traumatic event and then remembered it identified the trigger as some form of media presentation, such as a film or a television show. Psychotherapy was the least common trigger for remembering trauma." KNOWING AND NOT KNOWING ABOUT TRAUMA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THERAPY

All the repressed emotions and subconscious desires in time lead to some kind of psychological or physiological breakdown, if kept unchecked.

Although it is important to be able to recognise and disclose symptom of physical illnesses or injury, you need to be more careful about revealing psychiatric symptoms. Unless you know that your doctor understands trauma symptoms, including dissociation, you are wise not to reveal too much. Too many medical professionals, including psychiatrists, believe that hearing voices is a sign of schizophrenia, that mood swings mean bipolar disorder which has to be medicated, and that depression requires electro-convulsive therapy if medication does not relieve it sufficiently. The “medical model” simply does not work for dissociation, and many treatments can do more harm than good... You do not have to tell someone everything just because he is she is a doctor. However, if you have a therapist, even a psychiatrist, who does understand, you need to encourage your parts to be honest with that person. Then you can get appropriate help.

And yet, I knew with every fiber of my being that they were not truly there. Their flesh would hold no warmth, neither their cheeks a blush. Their blood would not seep from their veins and ooze from their bodies if they were cut. For they existed not.

An evening filled with chilling, conversation & continuous booty rubs. Best therapy.

A psychologist’s job (if it’s done well) is to get you to seriously laugh at yourself.