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How to Know the Difference

How to Know the Difference

 

Enabling

When I Feel
Responsible For Others

Caring

When I Feel
Responsible To Others

I Fix . . . and

  • Protect
  • Rescue
  • Control
  • Carry their Feelings
  • Don’t Listen

I show Empathy . . . and

  • Encourage
  • Share
  • Confront
  • Level
  • Am Sensitive
  • Listen

I feel Tired . . . and

  • Anxious
  • Fearful
  • Liable

I feel Relaxed . . . and

  • Free
  • Aware
  • High self-esteem

I am concerned with:

  • The Solution
  • Answers
  • Circumstances
  • Being Right
  • Details
  • Performance

I am concerned with:

  • Relating person to person
  • Feelings
  • The other person
  • I believe if I just share myself, the other person has enough to make it.

I am a manipulator. I expect the person to live up to my expectations.

I am a helper-guide. I expect the person to be responsible for himself and his own actions. I can trust and let go.

 

WHCC Services

  • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
  • Psychodynamic Theory
  • EMDR
  • Gestalt Therapy
  • Sandtray Therapy
  • Expressive Movement Therapy
  • Life Coaching
  • Play Therapy

Helpful Readings

  • Informational Readings
  • Inspirational Readings

Resources

  • Cinema-therapy
  • Favorite Ted Talks / Videos
  • Helpful Links
  • Book List

"Make yourself a door through which to be hospitable, even to the stranger in you."
-- David Whyte

"Where you stumble and fall there you will find true gold."
-- Carl Jung

"People start to heal the moment they feel heard."
-- Cheryl Richardson

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