LaDonna Silva, Marriage and Family Therapy

To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

What a great article about this model that I'm studying...

The way you treat yourself is one of the few things you control in life. There’s no reason to be anything but kind to yourself, in both your speech and your actions. Compassionate action includes taking care of your needs and looking for ways to enjoy yourself. Toni Bernhard, Self-Care in an Uncertain World

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit. ~ Audre Lorde

Such great questions...try this out with someone that matters to you.

You are worthy to be seen. You are worthy to be heard. You are worthy to be sat with, to be walked beside. Even in your quietest moments, you are worthy of witness. - Toni Morrison

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. - Alan Watts

For those in need~ https://facebook.com/events/s/greater-good-together/527392841307466/?ti=icl

I'd love to invite you to listen to this lively interview on Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness. It’s a wonderful interview sharing a great amount of information about parts work and this wonderful way I'm deepening my internal work with my Self and my therapeutic practice with my clients. https://podcasts.apple.com//getting-curious-/id1068563276

I love this reframe... Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards. Alain de Botton

With a heavy heart, the Process Therapy Institute (PTI) Board of Directors announces the death of our beloved founder, Don Hadlock. He died on Thursday, January 23rd, in his home in Los Gatos at age 77. Don touched many people professionally, personally and spiritually. We carry him around in our hearts (and ears!!) So many ask themselves in a time of need What would Don do? Don and Carol started PTI in 1982. They both had a tremendous impact in the community training and ...educating therapists. Don developed an experiential therapeutic model called Process Therapy where clients were invited to meet themselves and their issues without judgement in the moment. He served on the SCV-CAMFT Board, taught at John F Kennedy University and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology now Sofia University. He worked with the Bill Wilson Center and trained and Supervised at the Giaretto Institutesee our website below for more information. The board is planning a celebration to honor his legacymark your calendar for March 14th, 2020 from 11am-3pm at the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment in San Jose, CA. If you have any photos from your experience at PTI, please email them to LaDonna Silva at [email protected]. A memorial page will be on our website at http://www.processes.org and our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/processtherapyinstitute/. With Love and Light, LaDonna Silva, LMFT