#therapy

In therapy, I see myself in the mirror differently. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#i #i see #mirror #myself #see

Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us. ↗

— David Richo

#inspiration #pain #psychology #relationships #therapy

By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence. They glance at the world outside the family and with hardly a second thought grasp anxiously for a partner. In marriage they seek a substitute for the security of the family of origin and an escape from aloneness. What they do not realize is that moving so quickly from one family to another, they make it easy to transfer to the new marriage all their difficult experiences in the family of origin. ↗

— Augustus Y. Napier

#therapy #experience

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#fear-of-life #orgasm #pleasure #psychoanalysis #psychology

Move on. Be well. Go for it! ↗

— Sally Stubbs

#happiness-life #hypnotherapist #hypnotherapy #psychotherapist #resolve-problems

He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#intimacy-self-sacrifice #therapy #transparency #love

You will stay in therapy as long as you feel it is worth the time, effort and money you invest. ↗

— Alexander Lowen

#cost-of-therapy #lenght-of-therapy #money

The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. One may see this even in the case of idiots, with IQs below 20 and the extremest motor incompetence and bewilderment. Their uncouth movements may disappear in a moment with music and dancing—suddenly, with music, they know how to move. We see how the retarded, unable to perform fairly simple tasks involving perhaps four or five movements or procedures in sequence, can do these perfectly if they work to music—the sequence of movements they cannot hold as schemes being perfectly holdable as music, i.e. embedded in music. The same may be seen, very dramatically, in patients with severe frontal lobe damage and apraxia—an inability to do things, to retain the simplest motor sequences and programmes, even to walk, despite perfectly preserved intelligence in all other ways. This procedural defect, or motor idiocy, as one might call it, which completely defeats any ordinary system of rehabilitative instruction, vanishes at once if music is the instructor. All this, no doubt, is the rationale, or one of the rationales, of work songs. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#essential #music #narrative #therapy #intelligence

Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy. ↗

— Dean Karnazes

#running #sports #therapy #sports

One of the things that therapists do if you are suicidal, like a trick, is ask you about the future. They want to know what your plans are. Do you want to be the president? Do you want to be a rock star? They want to know if you want to live later even if you want to die now. ↗

— Albert Borris

#future #suicide #therapy #president