#counseling

To establish a Scriptural counseling relationship, the speaker says we must know the person to the level that they feel like they are known and to the level that we are moved by the hardness of their experience. ↗

— Ed Welch

#relationships #experience

Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they believed they thought of them. ↗

— Immaculee Ilibagiza

#education #humility #wisdom #education

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

#death-anxiety #grief #psychology #staring-at-the-sun #death

I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal. ↗

— Lindsay Wagner

#different #experienced #heal #healing #i

If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling. ↗

— Alan Thicke

#counseling #first #ground #offense #second

An unresolved issue will be like a cancer with the potential to spread into other areas of your relationship, eroding the joy, lightness, love and beauty. ↗

— Joyce Vissell

#divorce #love #relationship-issues #self-help #beauty

[Biblical counseling] Must insist that the image of God is central to developing a solid view of personality; that our sinfulness, not how we've been sinned against, is our biggest problem; that forgiveness, not wholeness, is our greatest need; that repentance, not insight, is the dynamic in all real change. ↗

— Dan B. Allender

#change

After Carol had left, as Symons threw away a pile of used tissues and rearranged the cushions on the couch, he remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him [as a career counselor] was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited--long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms--what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true 'calling. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#career-counseling #meaning #mistakes #work #family

If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle. ↗

— Jack Adams

#counseling #either #free #miracle #pay

I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved. ↗

— Gary Chapman

#another #been #counseling #doing #feel