Posts Tagged "psychotherapist"

Communication: Putting Down the Armor

Posted by on Oct 15, 2012 in Relationships

Communication: Putting Down the Armor

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one... Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe... It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable..." C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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One Parent’s Grief

Posted by on Aug 22, 2012 in Loss, Trauma

One Parent’s Grief

"...please: Don’t say it’s not really so bad. Because it is…If you think your task as comforter is to tell me that really, all things considered, it’s not so bad, you do not sit with me in my grief but place yourself off in the distance... Over there, you are of no help…I need to hear from you that you are with me in my desperation. To comfort me, you have to come close." Nicholas Wolterstorff, Lament for a Son

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