Telling Stories Never Fails To Produce Good

Good Therapy, Gently But Firmly, Moves People Out Of Denial And Compartmentalization. It Helps Clients To Develop Richer Inner Lives And Greater Self-knowledge. It Teaches Clients To Live Harmoniously With Others And It Enhances Existential Consciousness, And Allows People To Take Responsibility For Their Effects On The World At Large. For Me , Happiness Is About Appreciating What One Has. Practically Speaking,this Means Lowering Expectations About What Is Fair, Possible And Likely. It Means,finding Pleasure In The Ordinary.

Adolescence Is When Girls Experience Social Pressure To Put Aside Their Authentic Selves And To Display Only A Small Portion Of Their Gifts.

Parents Wrongly Assume That Their Daughters Live In A World Similar To The One They Experienced As Adolescents. They Are Dead Wrong. Their Daughters Live In A Media-drenched World Floded With Junk Values. As Girls Turn From Their Parents, They Turn To This World For Guidance About How To Be An Adult.

Girls Have Long Been Evaluated On The Basis Of Appearance And Caught In Myriad Double Binds: Achieve, But Not Too Much, Be Polite,but Be Yourself, Be Feminine And Adult; Be Aware Of Our Cultural Heritage, But Don't Comment On The Sexism. . . . Girls Are Trained To Be Less Than Who They Really Are. They Are Trained To Be What The Culture Wants Of Its Young Women, Not What They Themselves Want To Become.

Adolescents' Immature Thinking Makes It Difficult For Them To Process The Divorce. They Tend To See Things In Black-and-white Terms And Have Trouble Putting Events Into Perspective. They Are Absolute In Their Judgments And Expect Perfection In Parents. They Are Likely To Be Self-conscious About Their Parent's Failures And Critical Of Their Every Move. They Have The Expectations That Parents Will Keep Them Safe And Happy And Are Shocked By The Broken Covenant. Adolescents Are Unforgiving.