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rivkaI just quoted a science fiction author to a client, for what I think was probably the first time in my career. Lois McMaster Bujold: "The only thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart."
I don't tend to use quotes or aphorisms much in general, but then again, it isn't often that a quote perfectly sums up a client's entire therapeutic journey of several years' duration. And comes to mind at precisely the moment when she can receive it as an apt phrasing of what she has already come to know in her heart, and not as a lesson or lecture.
She was really moved. I am really pleased. I like to think that Lois would be, too.
I don't tend to use quotes or aphorisms much in general, but then again, it isn't often that a quote perfectly sums up a client's entire therapeutic journey of several years' duration. And comes to mind at precisely the moment when she can receive it as an apt phrasing of what she has already come to know in her heart, and not as a lesson or lecture.
She was really moved. I am really pleased. I like to think that Lois would be, too.
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Date: 2008-01-22 09:17 pm (UTC)You could tell her, if you like. I'm pretty sure she'd be very pleased.