Good Morning, Monster A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

“normal” is just a setting on a washing machine.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

“Stop taking overtime routes for the company and work overtime on yourself,”

You refused to be the conduit for another generation of horror.

“I was just relieved to be on the road for weeks on end in my truck with no one wanting from me what I couldn’t give.”

Indigenous healing is instead about connecting with the spirit world in a meaningful way and achieving harmony. Whereas traditional psychotherapy is based on a man-against-nature paradigm, Indigenous healing focuses on man harmonizing with nature.

“Those men were sick. That was probably why they were sent up there to begin with. I suspect the Catholic Church knew something was wrong with them and, instead of defrocking them, they sent them up past the treeline, where they thought no one would ever report what they did.”

Maternal attachment is more important than anything else to a baby—even more important than food. A baby will give up anything to have it.

when your mother labels you negatively, you believe her—for who else forms your self-image?

All the increased blood flow in the world won’t solve an emotional problem. In any sexual response, the mind has to work in conjunction with the body.