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Sullivan believed that our struggles were interactional (meaning “relational”). He went so far as to say, “It’s the mark of a senior clinician that he or she is the same person in their living room that they are in their office.” We can’t teach patients to be relational if we aren’t relational with them.
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LOOK AT THE CLOUDS; WHAT DO YOU SEE? (III): I see that we make each other more visible. / I see effortless grace. / I see the universe is listening. / I see the souls of the lost swirling all around me. / I see that I’m on one island and you’re on another. / I see my face staring back at me. / I see through to your core. / I see the struggle... See more
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A beautiful quote from John O’Donahue, on friendship and conversations:
... See moreWhen was the last time you had a great conversation? A conversation that wasn’t just two intersecting monologues, but when you overheard yourself saying things you never knew you knew, that you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that found places within you that you th
Why is this? Are we so reactionary as creatures that we do not change unless someone else forces us to? Are we like pool balls, sitting forever in a fixed pattern until an interpersonal cue ball blasts us into motion? I think not, although we do suffer a kind of inner inertia when circumstances precipitate a transition.
But it is not as mechanical a... See more
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From William Bridges On Transitions
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