counseling

God is the greatest nurturer of all.

I have frequently thought to myself, 'If I can teach my daughter one thing, it will be the love of self unconditionally.' Unconditional love and peace are obtainable, but they are only obtainable if I can learn to move beyond the conditions that I placed on my life. When conditions are placed on my life and on the lives of others, they ensure that I will never experience the depths of love and happiness.

A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.

I found that the same softness which once made me a target now compelled people to trust me with their stories.

The counselor says that with more time and more surgeries, I will begin to feel normal again. She says this with a mouth that can still smile. It__ so easy to be reassuring when you have lips.

If you have a dream, don__ just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.

It turns out that up to 35 percent of people with bipolar disorder also have ADHD.

As you may already know, post-traumatic stress disorder is extremely complex. Each client has a unique, perhaps virtually unbelievable, set of experiences, and an almost equally set of reactions to those experiences.

We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We need to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life__ourly and daily. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answers to its problems and to fulfill the task which it constantly sets for each individual.

I could help you,_ I said. __ounseling, drugs, a religious advisor, a girlfriend.

Being divorced does not necessarily make one__ advice on marriage useless _ or useful.

Paul didn't just see emotions. He saw the need they represented.

However, if you do not believe your clients, they may sense your doubt and never fully trust you. As Bruce Goderez (1986), director of a PTSD inpatient unit says, "It is important for the clinician and counselor to be willing to be made a fool." In other words, it is better that you believe a client who is lying or distorting the truth than to disbelieve a hurting trauma survivor who may never seek help again if your attitude is one of disbelief or disdain. Even if that client were to continue in therapy, they would never fully trust you.

When a person in your life continuously displays to you they do not care, there comes a point where you may want to start believing them.

most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road.

Facing one__ past can be a perilous activity. For the client, joy must exceed misery. Personal successes must far outweigh losses. Pleasure must exceed pain. Always. Always. To do otherwise is a failure of the counselor._ André Chevalier

You cannot contain evil by shaming it, or making people feel guilty, but only by revealing it toward it is, and then seeing the good as better.

Treat this crisis as practice for the next crisis.