Sublime

Patients actively use therapy to establish the conditions that will make it safe enough for them to confront their painful and irrational beliefs and feelings. On the simplest level, they seek to be understood, and when they succeed, as Carl did, they begin to feel safe.

And every day the mother would criticize her daughter’s choices. My patient felt ashamed and developed the pathogenic belief that she lacked the wherewithal to make her mother or anyone else happy.

is to go through it,

“Stricter churches” achieve a larger following and are generally more successful than freewheeling ones because they ferret out free riders and offer more robust club goods.

Working with an experienced psychopharmacologist who welcomes the integration of nutrition, supplements, exercise, and mind-body therapies

If you prefer, seek a therapist who knows how to deal with secrets. This will be a person of mercy, with no particular drum to bang about right and wrong, who knows the difference between guilt and remorse and about the nature of grieving and resurrection of spirit.

including dopamine researcher Dr. Anna Lembke, hormone expert Dr. Aviva Romm, neuroscientist Dr. Tara Swart Bieber, and metabolic health specialist Dr. Casey Means (an impressive fan club, if I’ve ever seen one).

In the early sessions, it’s always more important for patients to feel heard and understood than it is for them to gain any insight or make any changes.

As we see in the history of Christianity, shifts in beliefs inform how people see the world and, ultimately, how they behave in the world.