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Therapy is an invention devised to correct the substantial difficulties we face understanding ourselves, trusting others, communicating successfully, honouring our potential and feeling adequately serene, confident, authentic, direct and unashamed.
Alain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
Therapy builds on the idea of a return to live feelings. It’s only when we’re properly in touch with our feelings that we can correct them with the help of our more mature faculties – and thereby address the real troubles of our adult lives.
Alain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
Self-Therapy: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Wholeness and Healing Your Inner Child Using IFS, A New, Cutting-Edge Psychotherapy
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—Lama Yeshe, Becoming Your Own Therapist and Making Your Mind an Ocean
Jack Kornfield • The Buddha Is Still Teaching: Contemporary Buddhist Wisdom
It is not just the writing act itself that is therapeutic; it is trying to get at the emotional truth that seems to work.
Lindsay C. Gibson • Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: Honor Your Emotions, Nurture Your Self, and Live with Confidence
Are you just a list of symptoms on some diagnostic questionnaire, or does your therapist take the time to find out why you do what you do and think what you think? Therapy is a collaborative process—a mutual exploration of your self.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
As you can see, working with early attachment issues is very delicate business, and clearly not every therapist or form of therapy is suited to it.