I'm a third of the way through a 12-hour online conference: "The Future of the Person-Centred Approach: How to Serve a Changing World" and it's been by turns intense, dull and fascinating. A bit hard for my ADHD to maintain focus when people are rambling, despite being totally focused on another person is what I do for a living (or perhaps because of ?)
pickAn outstanding book.
Yalom describes the psychotherapy sessions he conducts.
The book does an amazing job of showcasing Yalom's impressive and fascinating professional skills while also delivering an emotional and honest human experience.
It's a professional book that explores the many layers of psychotherapy, but it's also a moving and captivating piece of human prose.
I think it really reflects Yalom.
pickI really, really enjoyed and recommend this book. It‘s not just about substance addiction but how we can all be addicted to something- success, control, affection. I think anyone can get something from this book 🙏
This month‘s spiritual direction read. I‘m way more into it than I thought I would be. We all can be addicted to something- control, success, relationships- and the author makes a great case for this.
pick4✨ The information in this one is so helpful! Everyone has something that they struggle with boundaries on. While I was reading I recognized many things that I didn‘t even know I should work on to have a more stress free lifestyle. By setting boundaries with the people in your life doesn‘t mean that you don‘t care, but it helps establish your own goals and peace. #Roll100 Aug
pick4✨
This was a very insightful and helpful book, I've learned quite a lot about myself and boundaries - mine and others.
pick3.5/5
Interesting read if you're curious about how counseling works. The footnotes were very useful to understand the process. They also put things into perspective by reminding us that a counselor/psychotherapist is human, and as such not always perfect, and that's okay.
Here we follow one patient. It would have been really, really nice to have different patients with different pathologies/problems.
On a work trip in San Diego from small town NY. Getting some social work internship hours in while I wait for pizza. 🍕
pickSuper overdue review for my June #DoubleSpin. I read this for a spiritual direction seminar, and found a lot of it really helpful as far as the practicalities of spiritual direction—both in practicing spiritual direction with others, as well as honestly confronting your own internal habits and avoidances. A lot of it is really dated, especially when it comes to gender, but I will definitely return to it for the wisdom it offers in many other ways.
