As an individual, you are entitled to your time of grief, process of grief, and right to grieve.

~ Asa Don Brown

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There is no greater grief, than when a parent losses a child.

~ Asa Don Brown

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When a woman miscarries, the experience of the father is often forgotten. But men grieve pregnancy loss too...

~ Various

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I could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I called 'helping' them.

~ Agnostic Zetetic

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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.

~ Irvin D. Yalom

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For example, in order to identify these schemas or clarify faulty relational expectations, therapists working from an object relations, attachment, or cognitive behavioral framework often ask themselves (and their clients) questions like these: 1. What does the client tend to want from me or others? (For example, clients who repeatedly were ignored, dismissed, or even rejected might wish to be responded to emotionally, reached out to when they have a problem, or to be taken seriously when they express a concern.) 2. What does the client usually expect from others? (Different clients might expect others to diminish or compete with them, to take advantage and try to exploit them, or to admire and idealize them as special.) 3. What is the client’s experience of self in relationship to others? (For example, they might think of themselves as being unimportant or unwanted, burdensome to others, or responsible for handling everything.) 4. What are the emotional reactions that keep recurring? (In relationships, the client may repeatedly find himself feeling insecure or worried, self-conscious or ashamed, or—for those who have enjoyed better developmental experiences—perhaps confident and appreciated.) 5. As a result of these core beliefs, what are the client’s interpersonal strategies for coping with his relational problems? (Common strategies include seeking approval or trying to please others, complying and going along with what others want them to do, emotionally disengaging or physically withdrawing from others, or trying to dominate others through intimidation or control others via criticism and disapproval.) 6. Finally, what kind of reactions do these interpersonal styles tend to elicit from the therapist and others? (For example, when interacting together, others often may feel boredom, disinterest, or irritation; a press to rescue or take care of them in some way; or a helpless feeling that no matter how hard we try, whatever we do to help disappoints them and fails to meet their need.)

~ Edward Teyber

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Techniques are like tools: The more you have, the more options for getting a job done - but you have to know what you are building first.

~ Joseph A. Micucci

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In cases where treatment with medication is warranted, work on family interactions will help to reduce symptom severity and promote better functioning in the long run.

~ Joseph A. Micucci

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Be an informed advocate and support.

~ Asa Don Brown

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Psychotherapy isn't a twentieth-century artifice imposed on nature, but the reinstatement of a natural healing process.

~ Patricia Love

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Toxic relationships are like a good pasta that has been overcooked.

~ Asa Don Brown

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Happiness is a choice and a state of mind.

~ Asa Don Brown

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Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory...

~ Asa Don Brown

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A secure attachment is the ability to bond, to develop a secure and safe base...

~ Asa Don Brown

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Real happiness provides you the confidence that you never thought was obtainable.

~ Asa Don Brown

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Trauma may be endured through a physiological or psychological threat to life or overall wellbeing.

~ Asa Don Brown

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My traumatic experience was life changing

~ Asa Don Brown

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Survivors of trauma may have difficulty initiating relationships ...

~ Asa Don Brown

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Perception and worldview are one's summary of life.

~ Asa Don Brown

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In simple, the past is a time gone by and no longer exists in the present moment, but we choose to allow this past to occupy our minds, our bodies and our very existence.

~ Asa Don Brown

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The loss of a child exploits the emotions of each individual it encounters.

~ Asa Don Brown

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Letting go of the past, is like opening the flood gates of healing to be set free.

~ Asa Don Brown

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The benefits of forgiveness are limitless.

~ Asa Don Brown

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An anchor should be someone who is personally open and willing to communicate.

~ Asa Don Brown

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Allow yourself to be an anchor and anchored by others.

~ Asa Don Brown

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The loss of my child broke my spirit.

~ Asa Don Brown

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When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you’re going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life… it’s a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.

~ Patrick Swayze

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Unfortunately, there is no expiration date on grief

~ Elizabeth Czukas

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Perfectionism is adaptive if you are mindful of your humanhood.

~ Asa Don Brown

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Although the client-centered approach had its origin purely within the limits of the psychological clinic, it is proving to have implications, often of a startling nature, for very diverse fields of effort.

~ Carl Rogers

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Should you operate upon your clients as objects, you risk reducing them to less than human. Following the culture of appropriation and mastery your clients become a kind of extension of yourself, of your ego. In the appropriation and objectification mode, your clients’ well-being and success in treatment reflect well upon you. You “did” something to them, you made them well. You acted upon them and can take the credit for successful therapy or treatment. Conversely, if your clients flounder or regress, that reflects poorly on you. On this side of things the culture of appropriation and mastery says that you are not doing enough. You are not exerting enough influence, technique or therapeutic force. What anxiety this can breed for some clinicians! DBT offers a framework and tools for a treatment that allows clients to retain their full humanity. Through the practice of mindfulness, you can learn to cultivate a fuller presence to the moments of your life, and even with your clients and your work with them. This presence potentiates an encounter between two irreducible human beings, meeting professionally, of course, and meeting humanly. The dialectical framework, which embraces contradictions and gives you a way of seeing that life is pregnant with creative tensions, allows for your discovery of your limits and possibilities, gives you a way of seeing the dynamic nature of reality that is anything but sitting still; shows you that your identity grows from relationship with others, including those you help, that you are an irreducible human being encountering other irreducible human beings who exert influence upon you, even as you exert your own upon them. Even without clinical contrivance.

~ Scott E. Spradlin

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In populations experiencing trauma across a wide variety of settings, the portion of those experiencing ongoing PTSD is remarkably similar – one third. Ecclesiastes says woe to him who falls alone, but that the cord of THREE strands is not easily broken. Apparently deep in our human wiring is the resilience to be a buttress for those feeling overcome.

~ Andrew Zolli

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You have the chief spark of your health's fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.

~ Boethius

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I've had a lot of therapists, so I've had the opportunity to approach my fear in many different ways. I've faced it head on and sideways and tried to tiptoe up behind it.

~ Anna White

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Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the questions the counselor might ask, then, the central guiding question in the counselor's mind is, How can I pray for you?

~ James Macdonald

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The separation of truth from reason is a dangerous game. I think ideas have to sink very deeply into a person's soul, into their being, before they can effect change.

~ Donald Miller

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We have been together for 40 years, married for 36. There have been three times in our relationship when we were unable to resolve an issue on our own. We used all the skill that we have and yet it was still unresolved. In those three times we sought professional help because there was a blind spot for each of us. The therapist was able to listen to both of us and help us come to a place of resolution that we both felt good about. I feel very grateful for that help. Most times we have been able to work things through on our own. Sometimes we can clear the issue in a matter of a few minutes, sometimes an hour and sometimes it can take several days. But we still keep working on it until we both say that we feel complete, we understand our own part and responsibility in the issue rather than simply blaming each other, are willing to go on, and there is an even deeper connection and sometimes even humor to the situation. In working each issue through to completion we have been able to retain a beautiful lightness in our relationship that we both cherish.

~ Joyce Vissell

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God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real.

~ C.s. Lewis

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Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word servant.

~ Davis Bunn

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It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.

~ E.m. Forster

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