I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.
From Susie Orbach
If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place.
I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style.
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.
The analyst's psyche operates as a kind of... something to hold on to while somebody's going through therapy, if they're deconstructing their own psyche, if that's cracking up in some way, or dissolving.
I'm a therapist and that fascinates people because they think I carry secrets.
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