Melissa Finaldi, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

It is the being there that counts.

It has been a while, friends. Love this description of therapy by the talented and wise @revelatori. #connection #connectionisthecure #melissafinalditherapy #therapy #healing #growth #emotions #anxiety #letgowhatnolongerservesyou

Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human. ~Henri Nouwen . . . #compassion #connection #connectionisthecure #melissafinalditherapy

Close your eyes. Place your hands over your heart. Feel your heart beating. This is the same heart that has been beating in your chest since the beginning of your existence. Picture yourself as a child, this same heart beating. Connect to that child. What have you forgotten that he/she/they knew for sure? Reconnect. Gift yourself some of whatever made your heart soar when you were that precious little one. . . . #connection #heart #connectionisthecure #love #gratitude #spirit #melissafinalditherapy