Sublime

Pure right-brainedness has an idyllic, timeless quality, but there is more to life than that. Such a child knows nothing about time, about cause and effect, about arbitrary rules. Knowing the rules is important. (“Don’t put your finger in a socket.”) We need a labeling system, a language, to deal with the complex world. Painstakingly, over several

A woman’s issues of soul cannot be treated by carving her into a more acceptable form as defined by an unconscious culture, nor can she be bent into a more intellectually acceptable shape by those who claim to be the sole bearers of consciousness. No, that is what has already caused millions of women who began as strong and natural powers to become

Take a current problem. Strip it of all the superimposed layers of your reactions. The first and most handy layer is that of rationalization, that of “proving” that others, or situations, are at fault, not your innermost conflicts which make you adopt the wrong attitude to the actual problem that confronts you. The next layer might be anger, resent

Maybe, like children in dysfunctional families, they are forced out of their natural, valuable states into roles that sometimes can be destructive but are, they think, necessary to protect the person or the system they are in. So I started trying to help my clients listen to their troublesome parts rather than fight them, and was astounded to find

A woman’s issues of soul cannot be treated by carving her into a more acceptable form as defined by an unconscious culture, nor can she be bent into a more intellectually acceptable shape by those who claim to be the sole bearers of consciousness. No, that is what has already caused millions of women who began as strong and natural powers to become

Does not mother love belong to the “smallest,” but also indispensable, things in life, for which many people paradoxically have to pay by giving up their living selves?

In addition to hopelessness, another primary indicator of an image is a pervasive sense of shame, a feeling of not being worthy or deserving. A specific shame lives in the inner child of all of us, stemming from the time we discovered, with a great shock, that our parents and our world were not perfect. The child has a great need to believe that he

The crazymaker cooks her own special meal in a house full of hungry children—and does nothing to feed the kids.

A criança ferida dentro de muitas mulheres é uma menina que foi ensinada desde os primórdios da infância que deveria se tornar outra coisa que não ela mesma e negar seus verdadeiros sentimentos, para atrair e agradar os outros.