Comments on: Your Legacy http://therapistleadershipinstitute.com/blog/1471/your-legacy/ Supporting and enriching the lives and careers of therapists worldwide. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:02:30 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: julie http://therapistleadershipinstitute.com/blog/1471/your-legacy/comment-page-1/#comment-756 julie Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:56:38 +0000 http://therapistleadershipinstitute.com/blog/?p=1471#comment-756 Casey, Thanks for the uplifting support, beautiful inspirationa and reminder of the ripple effect. Sometimes the work of therapy gets lost in the individual legacy or the why I really went into this work. As for me I went into working with others because I believe in the human spirit of change fostered with unconditional support. That is what I want my legacy to be, the one who offered unconditional support, inspiraton, hope andor belief in another helping them to be able to achieve anything they could concieve. Thanks again for bringing me back to the heart thought about why I do this work. Casey,
Thanks for the uplifting support, beautiful inspirationa and reminder of the ripple effect. Sometimes the work of therapy gets lost in the individual legacy or the why I really went into this work.

As for me I went into working with others because I believe in the human spirit of change fostered with unconditional support.

That is what I want my legacy to be, the one who offered unconditional support, inspiraton, hope andor belief in another helping them to be able to achieve anything they could concieve.

Thanks again for bringing me back to the heart thought about why I do this work.

]]> By: Bryan Knight http://therapistleadershipinstitute.com/blog/1471/your-legacy/comment-page-1/#comment-755 Bryan Knight Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:44:05 +0000 http://therapistleadershipinstitute.com/blog/?p=1471#comment-755 What beautiful words. I was tempted to say what a wonderful self-delusion but decided not to be cynical. Wouldn't it be marvellous if the hundreds of thousands of successfully-changed clients do indeed influence the world for the better. What beautiful words. I was tempted to say what a wonderful self-delusion but decided not to be cynical. Wouldn’t it be marvellous if the hundreds of thousands of successfully-changed clients do indeed influence the world for the better.

]]> By: Lisa Larsen, PsyD http://therapistleadershipinstitute.com/blog/1471/your-legacy/comment-page-1/#comment-752 Lisa Larsen, PsyD Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:37:13 +0000 http://therapistleadershipinstitute.com/blog/?p=1471#comment-752 I do this work to bring inner and outer peace to the people I help. When people learn they can make healthier choices about the way they think and feel, they can create better lives and stop the inner and outer turmoil in their lives. I do this work to bring inner and outer peace to the people I help. When people learn they can make healthier choices about the way they think and feel, they can create better lives and stop the inner and outer turmoil in their lives.

]]> By: Marci http://therapistleadershipinstitute.com/blog/1471/your-legacy/comment-page-1/#comment-751 Marci Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:20:57 +0000 http://therapistleadershipinstitute.com/blog/?p=1471#comment-751 I love how you phrased it - leaving a "quiet legacy". I have always said that my epitaph would be "she made a difference in people's lives". I have never felt that I needed trumpets or accolades, only a quiet and genuine thank you from my clients. Your words spoke to my heart. Thank you. I love how you phrased it – leaving a “quiet legacy”. I have always said that my epitaph would be “she made a difference in people’s lives”. I have never felt that I needed trumpets or accolades, only a quiet and genuine thank you from my clients. Your words spoke to my heart. Thank you.

]]> By: Patricia http://therapistleadershipinstitute.com/blog/1471/your-legacy/comment-page-1/#comment-750 Patricia Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:36:34 +0000 http://therapistleadershipinstitute.com/blog/?p=1471#comment-750 i am doing this work for pretty much the same reasons you stated in the blog, except leave a legacy. i don't care about that; my legacy is my 4 grown children who are practicing peace, love, joy and political activism in the world from beauty to agriculture to science to literacy. i do this because after spending 30+ years raising successful children i wanted to continue to help people become who they were meant to be; to try and help them find their core and source of growing from maladaptive feelings, thoughts and actions to more adaptive ones for themselves. i was born with the gift of intuition and empathy (which took a lot of years to acknowledge), and find people easy to understand, and seem to know the way into their hearts and help them draw out (if they have the courage and it's their time) the best in themselves. i have worked with every population we have in america, and don't judge anyone negatively (even the murderers and sex offenders) because i know the etiology of their woundings. i speak to these woundings and work with people to help them heal themselves and find a current life and a future life where they will eventually learn to thrive, not just survive (most likely we have to start at the just survive). it's just what i do. i also do this with dogs, and horses and plants. i guess my utopian desire is to do my part to help heal the planet, both through proaction and retroaction depending on the circumstances. and, of course, the bonus is, it makes me happy simultaneously. so, perhaps it's my selfish way of obtaining my "thrive." i am doing this work for pretty much the same reasons you stated in the blog, except leave a legacy. i don’t care about that; my legacy is my 4 grown children who are practicing peace, love, joy and political activism in the world from beauty to agriculture to science to literacy. i do this because after spending 30+ years raising successful children i wanted to continue to help people become who they were meant to be; to try and help them find their core and source of growing from maladaptive feelings, thoughts and actions to more adaptive ones for themselves. i was born with the gift of intuition and empathy (which took a lot of years to acknowledge), and find people easy to understand, and seem to know the way into their hearts and help them draw out (if they have the courage and it’s their time) the best in themselves. i have worked with every population we have in america, and don’t judge anyone negatively (even the murderers and sex offenders) because i know the etiology of their woundings. i speak to these woundings and work with people to help them heal themselves and find a current life and a future life where they will eventually learn to thrive, not just survive (most likely we have to start at the just survive). it’s just what i do. i also do this with dogs, and horses and plants. i guess my utopian desire is to do my part to help heal the planet, both through proaction and retroaction depending on the circumstances. and, of course, the bonus is, it makes me happy simultaneously. so, perhaps it’s my selfish way of obtaining my “thrive.”

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