Quotes by Psychotherapists - Page 9

When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future.
David Richo
Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.
David Richo
There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.
Amy Bloom
Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.
Milton Erickson
People are more likely to fall intensely in love when they are anxious and their self-esteem is lowest.... Feeling inadequate, unhappy, and empty are virtual prerequisites for falling and staying desperately in love; at least temporarily, the ecstasy of desire seems to cure everything that ails you. There is a connection between aversive states of mind -- loneliness, shame, even grief and horror -- and a propensity to feel overwhelming passion; this is one reason why romances blossom in times of war or natural disasters, as well as during the private disasters of our everyday lives.
Jeanne Safer
Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.
Esther Perel
For [erotically intelligent couples], love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning. They know that they have years in which to deepen their connection, to experiment, to regress, and even to fail. They see their relationship as something alive and ongoing, not a fait accompli. It’s a story that they are writing together, one with many chapters, and neither partner knows how it will end. There’s always a place they haven’t gone yet, always something about the other still to be discovered.
Esther Perel
I believe adopting free unstructured play, within an appropriate framework, has rich potential in bringing up happy, well-balanced and resilient children.
Iben Dissing Sandahl
I am responsible for my own existence and happiness.
Nathaniel Branden
To develop your intuition, you need to respect it as a natural intelligence.
Laurie Nadel
An intuitive insight or concept can often turn out to be an unexpected success.
Laurie Nadel
Instead of vacillating, we need to value, acknowledge and trust our intuition for what it is, a sense of truth.
Laurie Nadel
Intuition is a gift, an inner power that you can turn to whenever you need it.
Laurie Nadel
Trusting your inner voice, which is one of the critical steps in developing intuition, is predicated on being truly self-confident.
Laurie Nadel
Each of us has more intelligence than we are trained to use and the part that we get graded on in school doesn’t amount to much.
Laurie Nadel
Cosmic consciousness is the next level of holistic perception.
Laurie Nadel
Brain waves are like personal handwriting.
Laurie Nadel
The brain waves of ordinary people during insight experiences are unique. Their brains are in special states.
Laurie Nadel
Try to become aware of one feeling a day, keeping in mind that by doing so, you are building your data bank of self-knowledge
Laurie Nadel
Self-trust firms up your inner territory and grounds you with solid premises for believing in who you are.
Laurie Nadel
When in doubt, reinforce your self-trust.
Laurie Nadel
The fact that establishment scientists say something doesn’t exist doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. It only means that science has no effective way to measure it.
Laurie Nadel
Where are you?’‘I am between the light and the waves.
Laurie Nadel
Windsurfing, the sound of the word contains all the mystery of a solitary buoy in the fog, echoing across the water at the end of the day.
Laurie Nadel
The only sharks I’m afraid of are the ones that wear three-piece suits and write memos.
Laurie Nadel
Each of us has more intelligence than we are trained to use and the part that we get graded on in school doesn’t amount to much
Laurie Nadel
In its failure to value differences in the way people learn, the educational process often suppresses intuition, creativity, and your sense of identity.
Laurie Nadel
Finding your own metaphor for intuition is one of the best ways to give it form, an essential step in developing your intuitive thinking.
Laurie Nadel
Intuitive knowing can be described as an openness to flashes of insight
Laurie Nadel
The part of your mind that believes intuitive knowing to be impossible is that part of your mind for which it is impossible.
Laurie Nadel
Learning to locate your own gut response is essential if you are to be able to identify and acknowledge your intuition.
Laurie Nadel
The key to developing your intuition is developing your self-observation skills.
Laurie Nadel
Opening up to your intuition represents a commitment to pay closer attention to how you think and feel.
Laurie Nadel
Belief is the basis of intuitive behavior.
Laurie Nadel
Believing is essential when changing any behavior
Laurie Nadel
Whether you are at play in the fields of the Lord or standing next to home plate squinting at the popping pitcher, that sudden, immediate knowing can also help you envision the outcome.
Laurie Nadel
Whether you job involves chasing criminals, crouching numbers, or wrestling with paperwork, learning how to recognize and rely on those hunches and gut feelings can dramatically improve your job performance.
Laurie Nadel
When your intuition is right, thank the part of you that knows how to do that truly remarkable job.
Laurie Nadel
Out here on the water, it’s a fine line between feeling in control and losing it altogether.
Laurie Nadel
Instead of falling, I am dancing with the wind.
Laurie Nadel
Producing obituaries is a way of creating a legacy to remember important people of our times and their contributions. No matter whose obituary it is, I look for something inspirational about each person.
Laurie Nadel
Flip a coin. Life or death. Heads or tails. You never know.
Laurie Nadel
If there’s a takeaway from working here, it’s an understand that, as bioorganisms, we are a walking time bomb programed for cellular self-destruction. Not if, when.
Laurie Nadel
Lucid dreams often feel like this—as if you are observing yourself from a point over your shoulders-arm flexed, hands curving around the boom, breathing, in three dimensional silence.
Laurie Nadel
There are two kinds of special events: planned and unplanned.
Laurie Nadel
Inside, my spirit is sparkling like foam on the crest of a wave at high tide under a full moon.
Laurie Nadel
Swirling around my ears, the wind and I whooping at the sea, picking up speed, breathing it all in. An act of loving life.
Laurie Nadel
Soul-to-soul contact sweeps through, like a tsunami, leaving in its wake just this: unconditional surrender and overwhelming gentleness.
Laurie Nadel
Of all the things I wish for her, above all, I want her to know and love the sea.
Laurie Nadel
The feeling of freedom and scent of sea air are intoxicating. As the wind picks up, I gain speed, holding on to life with a capital L
Laurie Nadel
A wide-angle view of sails sparkling white against a cobalt sky as light dances, silver on the water. Like art, it soothes the edge, allowing you to see something simple from a different perspective.
Laurie Nadel
I took up windsurfing to explore my own courage.
Laurie Nadel
If you didn’t fall down, you would never have learned how to pick yourself up.
Laurie Nadel
Every misfortune is a blessing in disguise.
Laurie Nadel
My former identity was lying around, somewhere, fragmented and buried, like shards from an earlier civilization.
Laurie Nadel
Unraveling life lessons from just the past few years would take many more years. Lessons unlearned would pass with me, when I went through that door, to be completed in some future lifetime.
Laurie Nadel
The human psyche is a self-correcting mechanism.
Laurie Nadel
Find a way to learn something from every disappointment.
Laurie Nadel
Barely halfway back, exhaustion sets in. What if I don’t make it? An edge of panic gets intercepted by a calmer inner voice: Look behind you.
Laurie Nadel
Like Salvador Dali’s paintings of watches melting in the sand, time wanders at its own curious pace whenever you’re on vacation in a foreign country.
Laurie Nadel