Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

by Lori Gottlieb

creativity described as being the ability to grasp the essence of one thing and the essence of some very different thing and smash them together to create some entirely new thing.

if we spend the present trying to fix the past or control the future, we remain stuck in place, in perpetual regret.

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

They strive to give their children all the things they themselves didn’t have, but they sometimes end up, without even realizing it, resenting the kids for their good fortune.

there’s a saying that therapists can take their patients only as far as they’ve gone in their own inner lives.

if you sign up for intimacy, getting hurt is part of the deal.