"I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I'd live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional ups and downs; because that's the price I'm willing to pay for a fluid, perplexed and exciting life." Carl Rogers

"Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today." Robert H. Schuller #persistence

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. Robert H. Schuller

“The fact that grief takes so long to resolve is not a sign of inadequacy, but betokens depth of soul.” Donald Woods Winnicott #grief

Those who are nurtured best, survive best. Louis Cozolino

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.” Freud

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. Charles Dickens #helpingothers

“The therapist is not a guide with a map, but a fellow traveler on the same uncertain road.” Sheldon Kopp #therapist

Love is more than simply being open to experiencing the anguish of another person's suffering. It is the willingness to live with the helpless knowing that we can do nothing to save the other from his pain. Sheldon B. Kopp #love

We are all born into families and cultures we didn't choose, given names we didn't pick, instructed in behaviour and values we might not have freely chosen, and too often we end up expected to live lives designed by others. Sheldon B. Kopp

Ready to read on waysofthinking.co.uk 5+ Powerful Quotations On Regret You Actually Won’t Regret Reading. By Dr Linda Berman 🎨Silence – Alexej Georgewitsch Von Jawlensky. 1913. Wikimedia Commons #Regret

A good read from @lindaberman05.bsky.social The richness that regrets bring in their teaching & their nuance Learning from Experience waysofthinking.co.uk/2025/10/14/5...

“What one can be, one must be.” Maslow #potential

“The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.” Gabor Maté #pain

Feeling very new. I’d love to connect with some therapists here on Bluesky! Do get in touch so I can start to feel at home here after years on Twitter and a lot of connections there. 🌹🤗 Linda

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. Carl Jung #consciousness #pain

Feeling very new. I’d love to connect with some therapists here on Bluesky! Do get in touch so I can start to feel at home here after years on Twitter and a lot of connections there. 🌹🤗 Linda

“The capacity to still feel wonder is essential to the creative process.” Donald Woods Winnicott #wonder

“Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.” Donald Woods Winnicott #fears

“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.” Donald Woods Winnicott #artists

“Certainty is the enemy of change.” Salvador Minuchin #certainty

“Screw it. Let's do it.” Richard Branson

“The fact that grief takes so long to resolve is not a sign of inadequacy, but betokens depth of soul.” Donald Woods Winnicott #grief

"The greatest need of a child is to be understood and cherished for who they are. This need does not disappear in adulthood." Donald Winnicott #needs #love #understanding

Four givens are particularly relevant for psycho-therapy: the inevitability of death for each of us and for those we love; the freedom to make our lives as we will; our ultimate aloneness; and, finally, the absence of any obvious meaning or sense to life. Irvin D. Yalom

The aim of therapy is not to correct the past, but to enable the patient to confront his own history, and to grieve over it. Alice Miller #therapy

All therapy is grief work. A process of confronting a life where you expect one thing and get another, a life that brings you the unexpected and unanticipated.” Edith Eva Eger #therapy #grief #expectations

The obsession is a distraction; it protects you from thinking about something else. Irvin D. Yalom #obsession #distraction

Now on waysofthinking.co.uk Branching Out: The Tree of Language And Our Personal Growth. Part 1. By Dr Linda Berman 🎨Tree Roots and Trunks – Vincent Van Gogh. Wikioo #Language #trees #personalgrowth

‘Defend joy like a flag Defend it from Lightening and melancholy From the fools and the frauds From rhetoric and ruptured of the heart From the endemic and the academic’ Mario Benedetti Sweet dreams Drift off to Sleep youtu.be/bJFnrFihjl4?...

Hello everyone! I‘ve joined Bluesky after years on X. But X seems so controlling! Still on X but thought I’d try Bluesky too. Hope I feel freer here & that you’ll support & follow me. I post quotes on therapy, life, relationships, writing, literature & poetry. Do follow my blog: waysofthinking.co.uk