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aaina-04 · 1 month
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I want a silent spectator for my life. I want someone to watch my foolish antics, like when I stop to stare at every peculiar leaf and tree I find on my way, when I jump up and down at the smell of the first rain and wait for the rain only to dance with joy as the first drops of the season trickle down my face. I want someone to see the peculiar dreams I dream and the the way I look at the night stars as if I'm talking to them. I want someone to see how I talk to the moon (as if I'm talking to a random acquaintance I see everyday at work) about how it shows a different face every night.
I want to be seen without showing myself.
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People often mistake numbness for nothingness, but numbness isn't the absence of feelings; it's a response to being overwhelmed by too many feelings.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, by Lori Gottlieb
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meu-fragil-miocardio · 7 months
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"As pessoas farão qualquer coisa, por mais absurdo que seja, para evitar encarar sua próprias almas"
Carl Jung Talvez Você deva Conversar com Alguém - Lori Gottlieb
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iviaggisulcomo · 6 months
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Se non accettiamo l’idea che non si può cambiare ciò che è stato, per quanto possiamo spingere genitori, fratelli o partner ad aggiustare cose successe anni prima, restiamo bloccati nel passato. Cambiare il nostro rapporto con il passato è uno dei capisaldi della terapia. Ma non insistiamo abbastanza sul fatto che anche il nostro rapporto con il futuro influisce sul presente. La nostra visione del futuro può essere un ostacolo importante da rimuovere quanto l’idea del passato. Tendiamo a pensare che il futuro sia una cosa che viene dopo, ma in realtà lo creiamo nella nostra mente giorno dopo giorno. Quando il presente cade a pezzi, lo stesso accade anche al futuro che vi abbiamo associato. Ed essere privati del futuro è la madre di tutti i colpi di scena. Ma se dedichiamo il presente al tentativo di aggiustare il passato o di controllare il futuro, restiamo bloccati in un rimpianto perenne. (...) Se però vivo nel presente, devo accettare la perdita del mio futuro. Posso accettare fino in fondo il dolore o voglio soffrire?
(L. Gottlieb)
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quotesfrommyreading · 8 months
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As a therapist, I know a lot about pain, about the ways in which pain is tied to loss. But I also know something less commonly understood: that change and loss travel together. We can’t have change without loss, which is why so often people say they want change but nonetheless stay exactly the same.
  —  Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Lori Gottlieb)
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heresay · 1 year
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If you’d asked me when I started as a therapist what most people came in for, I would have replied that they hoped to feel less anxious or depressed, to have less problematic relationships. But no matter the circumstances, there seemed to be this common element of loneliness, a craving for but a lack of a strong sense of human connection. A want. They rarely expressed it that way, but the more I learned about their lives, the more I could sense it, and I felt it in many ways myself.
Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
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brownsugar4hersoul · 7 months
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" But part of getting to know yourself is to unknow yourself - to let go of the limiting stories you've told yourself about who you are so that you aren't trapped by them, so you can live your life and not the story you've been telling yourself about your life. "
Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk To Someone
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signedbyvenus · 10 months
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finished my favorite book of the year so far last week. feeling orfan without Lori.
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terminei meu livro favorito do ano semana passada. me sentindo órfã sem a Lori
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yomnaelsahn · 11 days
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In fact, Wendell continues, I have lost more than my relationship in the present. I have lost my relationship in the future. We tend to think that the future happens later, but we are creating it in our minds every day. When the present falls apart, so does the future we had associated with it, and having the future taken away, is the mother of all plot twists. But if we spend the present trying to fix the past or control of future, we remains stuck in place, in perpetual regret.
— Maybe You Should Talk To Someone, by Lorie Gottlieb
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peach-tea-leaves · 1 year
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Just One More Page Challenge Day 22: Books and Socks
Some comfy socks ft. one of my favorite reads of the past couple of years! Not only was reading this super cathartic, but it also offered a lot of insight into life as a therapist. I highly recommend!
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Not speaking about something doesn't make it less real. It makes it scarier.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, by Lori Gottlieb
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Book Review: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
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I've been in the "everybody can benefit from therapy" camp for a long time, so this book was confirming for me in a lot of ways. It was also humanizing and stimulating, with Gottlieb going to delicate lengths to highlight how we all have issues we're working through, whether we're conscious of them or not, and regardless of our age, gender, social standing, or occupation. She gives readers a better understanding of how mental/emotional health infiltrates our lives in general and why it can benefit us to seek therapy when we need it. Or want it.
There was something lovely about the way the author lifted the veil of therapy, destigmatizing it as well as demystifying what it means and how it can feel to go through the process. I appreciated her honesty, the realness and rawness of emotion. Not just when it came to the patients she was treating, either - but also the confusing highs and lows, the setbacks and breakthroughs, the blurred emotional lines she experienced in her own therapy sessions with Wendell. I liked the therapist/patient duality of this, especially. It evened the playing field in a way that underlined what it means to feel and love and hurt as a human, and how we're all out here trying our best to cope, to grow, and maybe even to heal.
All in all, this was a funny, compassionate, and poignant book that encourages mental health awareness/acceptance and doing what we can to better understand ourselves. I'd definitely recommend picking it up!
3/5 stars
**Follow me on Goodreads
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iviaggisulcomo · 1 year
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(È impossibile crescere senza prima diventare vulnerabili)
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quotesfrommyreading · 7 months
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Wendell explains that my pain feels like it's in the present, but it's actually in both the past and the future. Therapists talk a lot about how the past informs the present – how our histories affect the ways we think, feel, and behave and how at some point in our lives, we have to let go of the fantasy of creating a better past. If we don't accept the notion that there's no redo, much as we try to get our parents or siblings or partners to fix what happened years ago, our pasts will keep us stuck. Changing our relationship to the past is a staple of therapy. But we talk far less about how our relationship to the future informs the present too. Our notion of the future can be just as powerful a roadblock to change as our notion of the past.
In fact, Wendell continues, I've lost more than my relationship to the present. I've lost my relationship to the future. We tend to think that the future happens later, but we're creating it in our minds every day. When the present falls apart, so does the future we had associated with it. And having the future taken away is the mother of all plot twists. But if we spend the present trying to fix the past or control the future, we remain stuck in place, in perpetual regret. By Google-stalking Boyfriend, I've been watching his future unfold while I stay frozen in the past. But if I live in the present, I'll have to accept the loss of my future.
Can I sit through the pain, or do I want to suffer?
  —  Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Lori Gottlieb)
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heresay · 1 year
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Avoidance is a simple way of coping by not having to cope.
Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
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la-zu-li · 1 year
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Existe alguma coisa que nos faça sentir mais vulneráveis que perguntar a alguém: Você gosta de mim?
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