Tag: Resilience & Renewal

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Resilience is the soul’s capacity to endure and adapt in the presence of grief, holding steady when the world feels unmade. Renewal is the gradual, quiet reorientation to life and meaning that follows. Together, they represent the integration of loss—not by forgetting, but by allowing new growth to emerge from the scarred earth, honoring both the strength to stay and the courage to begin again.

  • Good Help is Hard to Find

    Good Help is Hard to Find

    The goal of psychotherapy is healthy, reciprocal relationships with others. It is also to become aware of when others unconsciously manipulate you to get their own needs met. If you can do that after receiving help, you have arrived.

  • Tendrils

    Tendrils

    An unhappy peace settled on me: This is the way things are now that my husband is dead. I don’t know how they will be in the future. I only know how they are now.

  • The Best of Times

    The Best of Times

    Personality-disordered people share the traits of being unable to empathize, of being defensive and unteachable, unable to think outside the box they live in. They are dishonest. They avoid suffering. They can’t say “I’m sorry.”

  • Problem-Solving as Support

    Problem-Solving as Support

    A child is still in the process of learning the skills required to survive, and is thereby more susceptible to stress.  The child needs to know that the parent will be there for him or her. 

  • Being There

    Being There

    Some people survive childhood by taking care of themselves. One day, they realize that they’re giving others what they didn’t experience, but knew they needed. They become pioneers in their families of origin.