Sublime

overwhelmed by too many feelings.

“Joining through the truth” is the Relational Life therapist’s art of loving confrontation: we hold up the mirror of difficult truths and do not shrink from our role as mentor and coach.

As responsible adults with sufficient knowledge, we have the power to take control of ourselves.

Shake got over Laura Klein pretty much right away, stopped working on his screenplay. Stopped talking about her altogether. “That bitch wasn’t all that,” he said the last time he brought her up. “Shit, she didn’t even know I was too young to take the damn SAT.”

that she would pay him to spend the next hour together. He managed to tease her out of eighty dollars at the rate of twenty dollars per hour. They continued to see each other afterward, free of charge. Grimble seduced a nineteen-year-old girl who came to his door selling magazines. Despite the fact that he was wearing boxers and a dirty sweater, he

Your habitual ways of interacting with the important people in your life tell us a great deal about the defense mechanisms you typically use.

A milder, more ideal early environment tends to produce lighter patterning in a child, depending, of course, on the child’s sensitivity to that particular kind of wounding.