Quotes for the Journey
A good quote can guide us and come back to help us time and again when we are sitting with our clients. Here are a few to consider for your own precious work!
EFT Quotes:
“The cycle is the bad guy. Neither partner is the bad guy.”
“Unprocessed fear moves under the surface and tweaks behavior. Unprocessed pain moves under the surface and tweaks behavior.”
“Protection becomes a prison.”
“Unprocessed pain limits life options.”
“Where are the pockets of pain? Find the pockets of pain.”
“Emotion is the music of the dance.”
“Every emotion has a story.”
“It’s hard to bond in secondary. Primary is where the Velcro happens. ”
“Our brains were made to load-share. ”
“Isolation is inherently traumatizing to the human brain.”
“Make space for our client’s humanity.”
“Transparency provides agency.”
“Expand the window of tolerance [for emotion].”
“We need to active the block to help shift it.”
“[Notice if you want to get them out of their pain.] In this model, that’s not what helps them change. They need to feel it to change.”
“When you don’t know what to do, reflect!”
“When they go big, we go specific, tangible, visceral, taste it, see it, into their experience. Two seconds of experience is better than two weeks of explanation in therapy.”
“Slow is sometimes faster. ... Sometimes in therapy, slower is faster.”
“Show up!”
“Hovering is healing.”
“Keep it real. Keep it safe.”
“Safety first.”
“Bad EFT is better than no EFT.”
General Quotes to Encourage You, the Therapist:
“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet. ”
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
“Don’t twist yourself into a pretzel!”
“Never work harder than the client.”
“Know yourself deep down. What are the conditions under which you can bring your best “you” to the process of therapy and your work? ”
“Find your sweet spot and work from that place of life-giving awareness. Find your lane and thrive in it! ”
“Be who you are and be okay with not being someone else. You are ENOUGH!”