Sessions Quotes

“Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." -- The Velveteen Rabbit”
― Kathryn Foster, Sessions: Memoirs of a Psychotherapist

“Addictions are a form of self-absorption, whereas, love is giving.”
― Kathryn Foster, Sessions: Memoirs of a Psychotherapist

“Abuse victims often strive to be above reproach. What they’re really doing is trying to stay one step ahead of the shame they carry, for fear the childhood emotion will engulf them if it ever catches up.”
― Kathryn Foster, Sessions: Memoirs of a Psychotherapist

“We can love deeply, even risking our own lives for a dog we don’t know, or murder ruthlessly without intent. We can survive Auschwitz or live fixated on four-year-old fears.”
― Kathryn Foster, Sessions: Memoirs of a Psychotherapist

“It’s a holy encounter, meeting another person for the purpose of healing. Clients unwrap their souls and show me the part they do not yet understand. I look, trying to interpret, and, always, as I see them, I see myself. We search together for a special ointment that will heal. We explore ingredients, like an herbologist walking among a multitude of plants, choosing a few to put in the apron.”
― Kathryn Foster, Sessions: Memoirs of a Psychotherapist

“In psychotherapy, the only proof clients really want of your expertise is what actually happens between you and them.”
― Kathryn Foster, Sessions: Memoirs of a Psychotherapist

“All the theories have truth, and all fall short. Mostly, I work to hear a person deeply. Then I scan the theories and techniques and try to make a match.”
― Kathryn Foster, Sessions: Memoirs of a Psychotherapist

“If a person lacks empathy and acts selfishly at the expense of someone else, and he does it over and over, he would become what I call-”
― Kathryn Foster, Sessions: Memoirs of a Psychotherapist