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As a therapist, I am a companion. I try to help people tune into their own wisdom.
Virginia Satir
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Virginia Satir
Age: 72 †
Born: 1916
Born: June 26
Died: 1988
Died: September 10
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Virginia M. Satir
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I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.
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I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.
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The message sent is not always the message received.
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We get together on the basis of our similarities we grow on the basis of our differences.
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Problems are not the problem coping is the problem.
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I know people can change-right down to my bones, through every cell, in every fiber of my body-I now that people can change. It is just a question of when and in what context.
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Why Family Therapy...because it deals with family pain.
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I think if I have one message, one thing before I die that most of the world would know, it would be that the event does not determine how to respond to the event. That is a purely personal matter. The way in which we respond will direct and influence the event more than the event itself.
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My dream is to make families a place where adults with high self esteem can develop. I think we have reached a point where if we don't get busy on dreams of this sort, our end is in sight. We need a world that is as good for human beings as it is for technology.
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People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty
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You have learned what you have learned very well. It has helped you survive.
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I have talked about choosing rather than acting from compulsion. When you feel that you have to live according to someone else's direction or live so that you never disappoint or hurt anybody, then your life is a continual assessment of whether or not you please other people.
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Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.
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We need to see ourselves as basic miracles.
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Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
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Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.
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Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.
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We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.
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A growing body of clinical observation has pointed to the conclusion that the family therapy must be oriented to the family as a whole.
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It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such as power, intimacy, autonomy, trust, and communication skills are vital parts underlying how we live in the world. To change the world is to change the family.
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