Quotes About Therapy

I have worked to develop a safe, gentle, and effective way for people to heal from trauma. It works by understanding that trauma is primarily physiological. Trauma is something that happens initially to our bodies and our instincts. Only then do its effects spread to our minds, emotions, and spirits.

Some things must be dealt with at the roots. Trauma is one of these things.

The other important focus is to realize that pain in and of itself becomes traumatizing.

When people have been traumatized, they are stuck in paralysis—the immobility reaction or abrupt explosions of rage. Because of this, they lack the healthy aggression that they need to carry out their lives effectively.

Another activity to keep your child from being stuck in the past is the drawing exercise below, designed to give your child a sense of the movement of time.

The "talking cure" for trauma survivors should give way to the unspoken voice of the silent, but strikingly powerful, bodily expressions as they surface to "sound off" on behalf of the wisdom of the deeper self.

I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual living of said life.

Depression, in its insidious way, acts as a degenerative disease, harming nerve cells. Like

Disorganization of attachment may be the indication of exceptionally poor mentalization.

Dr. Dick McCool, director of Electroconvulsive Therapy at Gartly-Ramsay