I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison (Dr. Harper Therapy, #2)

by Dr. Harper

“Abusive people love to use spirituality and forgiveness to manipulate their victims into accepting more abuse.”

“You can mistreat someone, and then make them feel worse by guilt-tripping and shaming them for the perfectly valid anger they carry. But real forgiveness does not require reconciliation or contact of any kind.”

“Many trauma survivors can re-tell their stories in vivid detail, a hundred times over, but that doesn’t mean the pain is gone.”

“I think we all have lessons to learn. Old energy and wounds to resolve. So we keep coming back until our work is done, and then we’re infinite and free — just like the stars. But it usually takes a few tries.”

“Maybe next time, I’ll come back with a little less pain in my heart.”

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can—” “And the wisdom to know the difference,”

When someone copies your entire personality, it’s not a sign of empathy. It’s a sign of the complete opposite.

“I’m playing judge and jury, because I don’t trust that God will deliver justice,”

Though psychopaths make up roughly 1% of the general male adult population, they make up between 15% and 25% of the males incarcerated in North American prison systems. There is no other variable that is more highly correlated to being in prison than psychopathy.

“Chase, the thing you have to understand is that our bodies and minds don’t create a ‘detour’ unless we’ve experienced some pretty serious trauma. If we want to get back on the highway, we have to be ready to see the crash.”