"If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have a real life skill [become a therapist]."
"I had a client who just wanted to entertain me the whole time, that is a defense against going deep, in my mind. What happens when the jokester is not allowed to deflect with humor? You then have to feel the pain, and learn that you can survive it. It makes you more resilient and stronger in the long run, and your sense of humor will always be there. Being able to see the funny is deep."
3 likes
Source: Source: www.psychologyart.com
About the author
Same author
More quotes by Kelly Carlin-McCall
"You will be faced with facing all the things in yourself that keep you from knowing who you are, you'll have to stand up to roles and definitions that your family and culture have given you."
"When I am ever in any situation that's getting too heavy, I lighten it up with humor."
"I have known know many therapists who come out of Pacifica Graduate Institute and love being both artists and therapists at the same time, like Maureen Murdock. They are photographers and dancers and other kinds of things and therapists at the same time. I think it really makes them a much more interesting therapist because they're so engaged with the imagination and the creativity and the depths of who they are."
"Working with the body and the imagination - non-verbal ways especially - tap into our deepest wounds and our highest potentials as humans."
"My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that.""