Therapy Quotes - Page 25

• To go into therapy is an adventure, not really to iron anything out.

  Jeff Bridges

  Adventure, Iron

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• Two things were falling apart, my personal life, my professional life. And I realized that all those things were supposed to make me happy, but nothing could fill me up except myself. So I went into analysis. I went to see a doctor, to talk about my lack of self-esteem. I don't know how to say it better: my lack of self-esteem, my insecurity, and how these things were not going to fill me up. And I'd better fix myself and then find out what I liked. For me, therapy was the greatest gift I could ever give myself. There's nothing I could have done for myself that would've been better.

  Sherry Lansing

  Self Esteem, Fall, Two

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• When students are first at the Kerouac School we harp on Gertrude Stein's very basic poetic insistence that words are things . Not to invalidate your experience or all the great feelings you have, I tell them. Although poetry may be good for you, it's not therapy. You're making something with words which are visceral, muscular, active, not just markers of how you feel. And we have classes studying William Blake, Ezra Pound, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Stein.

  Anne Waldman

  School, Class, Feelings

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, People, Mind

  "Uh, who needs therapy? And which kind?". www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2009.

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• Most people may not realize the tremendous value that therapy/companion/comfort animals have for the purposes of easing the suffering of those with PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), particularly within the military.

  Ken Wahl

  Military, Animal, People

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• I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use art to express it.

  Naturi Naughton

  Art, Pain, Writing

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed. I’ve had many years of recovery and therapy, years filled with intimate and devoted friendships, yet I still struggle. I know that when someone gets a big slice of pie, it doesn’t mean there’s less for me. In fact, I know that there isn’t even a pie, that there’s plenty to go around, enough food and love and air. But I don’t believe it for a second. I secretly believe there’s a pie. I will go to my grave brandishing my fork.

  Anne Lamott

  Believe, Struggle, Recovery

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.86, Penguin

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• The one that I really call love is when I feel like everything's okay. That state of, it's all right here. I spent most of my adult life looking for romantic love. I've been in therapy since '87. What I learned was, that connection that I was looking for that I thought was really romantic love, my therapist literally said, "Well, when you feel that next, you probably shouldn't go towards that for a partner."

  Daphne Zuniga

  Romantic Love, Love Is, Adults

  "Daphne Zuniga Opens Up About Mindfulness And Finding Love In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2013.

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• I'm not very close to my parents. My stepfather (in my opinion) was very emotionally abusive when I was growing up and there were a lot of other issues I don't feel comfortable talking about publicly. I spent a lot of time in therapy dealing with these issues though, and I feel i'm finally starting to move past them.

  Marie Calloway

  Growing Up, Moving, Past

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I go and write with other artists - a lot of the time it's with them - it's like a therapy session almost. I ask them what they're listening to and what they're going through and what their influences are and I try to get inside of their head and step into their shoes for a second.

  Bonnie McKee

  Writing, Artist, Shoes

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• Trying to tell an authentic, raw and honest story without making it therapy. Separating myself enough to have perspective while putting myself in the emotional hot seat so that I could make this thing real. Asking for help. Delegating responsibility. Standing up for myself. Fighting the impulse to be sweet and likeable 24/7. Being open to all ideas, but staying true to the spine of the story. Knowing when to let go and when to hold on and fight like hell. Getting out of my own way. Shall I go on?

  Jessie Kahnweiler

  Letting Go, Sweet, Real

  "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Jessie Kahnweiler – ‘The Skinny’". Interview with Sian Melton, www.indiewire.com. January 26, 2016.

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• Never diagnose a (client) until after their therapy is over.

  Carl Jung

  Clients

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• The continuing struggle was once described in the following metaphor by a patient who had successfully completed a long course of psychotherapy: 'I came to therapy hoping to receive butter for the bread of life. Instead, at the end, I emerged with a pail of sour milk, a churn, and instructions on how to use them.' (138)

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Struggle, Bread Of Life, Sour Milk

  SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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• Honestly, shopping beats therapy, anytime. It costs the same and you get a dress out of it.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Shopping, Dresses, Cost

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• Mary frowned. A vampire doctor. Talk about exploring your alternative therapies.

  J.R. Ward

  Doctors, Vampire, Alternatives

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.936, Penguin

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• No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Prayer, Pain, Psychics

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.73, Random House

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• Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.

  Alexis Carrel

  Strength, Prayer, Real

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• Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Running, Dream, Moving

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.25, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When I step onto the court, I don't have to think about anything. If I have a problem off the court, I find that after I play, my mind is clearer and I can come up with a better solution. It's like therapy. It relaxes me and allows me to solve problems.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  "The Playboy Interview: Sports Gods". Interview with Mark Vancil, reprints.longform.org. May, 1992.

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• I do enjoy and feel compelled to talk about things that are taboo. One, because I think I'm a troublemaker inside, if someone says, "Don't say that," it's all I want to say. And also, something I learned in therapy ... which is darkness can't exist in the light, and then that made me think of something that Mr. Rogers said, which is, "If it's mentionable, it's manageable."

  Sarah Silverman

  Thinking, Light, Darkness

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

  James Hillman

  Ideas, Goal, Trying

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they are degraded to a secondary position.

  James Hillman

  Art, Example, Way

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I tend to use my music as therapy, in a way.

  Sarah Barthel

  Use, Way, Music Therapy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not talking about just Donald Trump's politics - it's what he's brought up. It's a real conversation. We're just people trying to fall in love as nations and human beings. We need therapy, man. The world does.

  Michael Buble

  Falling In Love, Real, Men

  "Michael Bublé leaves his comfort zone". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• One way of submitting your moral intuitions in relation to some issue to cognitive therapy is to learn more about how people in other cultures think about it.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Thinking, Other Cultures, Issues

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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