Sublime

Studies show, and common sense dictates, that most therapists prefer to work with patients who are verbal, motivated, open, and responsible—these are the patients who improve more quickly.

Leading behavioral researchers have told us that as much as seventy-seven percent of everything we think is negative, counterproductive, and works against us.

“It wasn’t self-talk, it was Zig-talk. Zig Ziglar talked to me every day for three hours. For three hours a day, for three years, I listened to this guy. I knew it by heart because there were only 72 hours of stuff. That voice in my head took over because I didn’t have the voice I needed in my head.”1

Denis Waitley, the author of The Psychology of Winning and The Joy of Working, who defines

This early form of self-talk was written out on index cards––one self-talk statement per card. Eventually, the persistent self-talk user would develop a card deck of self-talk phrases covering a variety of situations. Anytime a specific goal or problem came up, self-talk phrases from the card deck could be pulled out and used each day––again with r

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

The Drama of the Gifted Child