interbeing
David Brooks • The Relationalist Manifesto
Basically, there are different sources of movement that have been described as the personal unconscious (personal story); the collective unconscious (transpersonal and cross-cultural); or the superconscious (connected to energies beyond the self).
Andrea Olsen • The Place of Dance: A Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making
Sullivan believed that our struggles were interactional (meaning “relational”). He went so far as to say, “It’s the mark of a senior clinician that he or she is the same person in their living room that they are in their office.” We can’t teach patients to be relational if we aren’t relational with them.
Lori Gottlieb • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Found on Cosmos
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On a purely biological level, the birth process itself is the first instance of separation and individuation, a paradigm of the pattern that will later be manifest psychologically. The fetus initially exists as part, literally, of the mother’s body; then, at birth, it separates—differentiates—and comes into the world as a distinct individual
... See moreNathaniel Branden • Honoring the Self: The Pyschology of Confidence and Respect
"I think one more thing I'll talk about, as far as a medicine for us is what I call our deep time ancestral inheritance. In a culture again, here in this country where our only focus is on the future and on progress, we forget that we are the inheritors of this enormous reservoir of wisdom. We survive. We're here today because of survival, of a
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instagram.comA beautiful quote from John O’Donahue, on friendship and conversations:
... See moreWhen was the last time you had a great conversation? A conversation that wasn’t just two intersecting monologues, but when you overheard yourself saying things you never knew you knew, that you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that found places within you that you
