I wish that I could fashion my #delight in [my clients] #true #selves into a wand that I could use to gently touch the tender center of their being, to free them to be all of who they are. #CORwork #deeptherapist #goodtherapy
Once you’ve identified your loss, your next step is to understand exactly how you feel about it, since grief can manifest in a number of ways. #Grief #DEEPtherapist
Contrary to our cultural teachings, expressed emotions don’t hurt you or anyone else. They may be painful, but they don’t HURT you or cause you to hurt anyone else. In fact, emotions evolved to generate #action that will help you. #Grief #emotions #DEEPtherapist
Therapy can help you learn to express your opinion, work through #discouragement about #expressing your opinion, or to even figure out what your #opinions are. #CORwork #deeptherapist #makeastart
Contrary to our cultural teachings, expressed emotions don’t hurt you or anyone else. They may be painful, but they don’t HURT you or cause you to hurt anyone else. In fact, emotions evolved to generate #action that will help you. #Grief #emotions #DEEPtherapist
Therapy can help you learn to express your opinion, work through #discouragement about #expressing your opinion, or to even figure out what your #opinions are. #CORwork #deeptherapist #makeastart
Remembering to trust the stalagmitial time it takes to grow any worthy fantastical formation drop by drop can alleviate a whole lot of pressure, worry, and fear. #Trust #newmove #newjourney #Deeptherapist
Connection is nourishing, even if what we connect within is sorrow. Connection glows, warms, and motivates. #connection #deeptherapist
The vastness of self-destabilization created by loss can be agonizingly disorienting. #grief #yourgriefisyourown #lifeafterloss #healing #wellbeing #goodtherapy #goodtherapist #emotion #deeptherapy #attachment #deeptherapist
Being seen and understood is a fundamental human need, especially when you’re going through something painful. #connection #validation #saftey #understood #deeptherapist
The vastness of self-destabilization created by loss can be agonizingly disorienting. #Grief #deeptherapist
Rituals create pause within #busy-ness. They are small actions that bracket routines with meaning and intention. By acknowledging meaning and intention in any activity, we live from the heart. #goodtherapy #deeptherapist #griefadvocate
When our social brains are in such distress, what we most need is to be understood. Feeling like our emotions are understood is often the only thing that helps in times of anguish. #deeptherapist #emotions #understanding
I want to be a voice that calls those of us who have the inner strength and social support to bear being cracked wide open to do so. Permanently. #Deeptherapist #CORwork
Grieving people don’t need the extra weight of feeling bad about feeling pain. #yourgriefisvalid #deeptherapist
Your #human brain also possesses the unique #capacity for self-awareness. When you can step back and become aware of your automatic responses, you have the power to decide whether it’s wise to actually act automatically or not. #brainwise #goodtherapy #deeptherapist #CORwork
Saying you don’t INTEND to pathologize these grievers [prolonged grief disorder] while at the same time giving them a diagnosis of a mental illness does not make your pathologizing any less real! #Grief #deeptherapist #Yourgriefisyourown
Heartfelt people are people who notice when something feels off or overwhelming, and who have the courage to ask for help. #overwhelm #capacity #help #courage #deeptherapist
The thing about saying yes to a longing for #transition is that big life change involves #gain AND #loss. #Deeptherapist #griefadvocate
The thing about saying yes to a longing for #transition is that big life change involves #gain AND #loss. #Deeptherapist #griefadvocate
To me, a heart full to bursting with a multitude of divergent emotions all at once is the essence of joy. Joy is not “happiness.” Joy is not “positive.” Joy is ALL OF IT—from top to bottom, all around, cutting off nothing. #joy #fulness #emotions #wellbeing #deeptherapist
Being seen and understood is a fundamental human need, especially when you’re going through something painful. #connection #validation #saftey #understood #deeptherapist
Heartfelt people are people who notice when something feels off or overwhelming, and who have the courage to ask for help. #overwhelm #capacity #help #courage #deeptherapist
Gratitude opens the floodgates to grief. Grief expands gratitude. #deeptherapist #grief
I will say it time and time again; Grieving people need support without being pathologized or shamed into silence or a quick “recovery.” #DEEPtherapist #Grief #Time #goodtherapy #Grievingisnotlinear #yourgriefisyourown
Social safety is needed for rebuilding after loss and our [Western] culture exacerbates feelings of danger instead of returning...to safety. #grief #yourgriefisyourown #lifeafterlos #emotion #deeptherapy #attachment #deeptherapist
To trust softness as a response to difficulty's hardness requires strength, courage, and awareness. And this trust is much easier to come by when I have support and holding from fearless others with me in the difficulty. #Deeptherapist #trust #Griefadvocate #NatureofDifficulty
#Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within — James Baldwin #griefadvocate #Deeptherapist #love
Grieving people don’t need the extra weight of feeling bad about feeling pain. #yourgriefisvalid #deeptherapist
When the bedrock of your life has shattered, grief and pain are so overwhelming and intense that there’s no room to take in or respond to #traumas outside the immediate center of your life. #Griefadvocate #deeptherapist
