Therapeutic relationship

difference between a relationship and love. “Commitments” built around “special bonds” include the commitment to one partner during a marriage or boyfriend/girlfriend relationship as well as many other sacrifices. These commitments happen because of the many moments in which couples experience love. Fredrickson shows this by describing an equation in which “love” equals the many smaller moments in which we experience love and the product of this “love” results in relationships and commitment.…

Relationships are portrayed as being the perfect connection between two souls. Often times, relationships in movies and stories are seen to have perfect endings, this is not reality for everyone. Beyonce Knowles-Carter shows in her film and album Lemonade, that with relationships, there comes commitment, trust, and communication, which can be difficult for two people to achieve together. This image, from the chapter “Forgiveness,” which features the song “Sandcastles,” represents the…

“What’s wrong?” “I’m Afraid.” “What are you afraid of?” “Everything…” If we were all really honest with ourselves, and we peer into the depths of our being looked at our deepest part we would find a similarity within each soul. Hiding beneath the desire to be loved, wanted, and needed we would find the fraction of us we seem to hate the most. This small piece shows itself in countless ways. It hinders us from success and fulfilling God’s greatest purpose for our lives, and we often times…

Sometimes holding onto our fantasies and desires of how something could have been, ends up poisoning the reality of what it truly is. In the article, “The Myth of Co-Parenting: How It Was Supposed to Be. How It Was.”, author Hope Edelman discusses her desires of how she had imagined her married life to be and that of the reality that had engulfed her when it came to co-parenting with her husband, John. Edelman takes her readers on a journey of her life shortly after the birth of her first…

I am no different, my life has been full of relational difficulties, the most recent ending during this past summer, this being a continuation of what i’ve come to call “the cycle”. This cycle is a definition of my personal struggle through relationships,…

Harmonious, symbiotic relationships exist all over society, some of which being success and failure, love and grief, or fear and bravery. These partnerships coexist with one another, one idea simply becoming unattainable if its counterpart does not exist. For example, bravery becomes impossible without fear. Authors often use these ideas in literature to demonstrate the relationship between two main ideas of a novel. By analyzing this concept, it has become apparent that author Colum McCann uses…

Henri Nouwen once said, “What makes us human is not our mind but our heart. Not our ability to think, but our ability to love.” To me this quote not only directs towards the idea of just having the ability to love, but being capable of generating and accepting feelings as a whole. Although, love is one of the many necessary feelings we should be able to endure and execute, there are still so any more feelings and emotions that us humans explore on a day to day basis. One of the things that our…

Many individuals want to compose a difference in their community because they want the world they live in to be fantastic. Both Jamal and Crawford want the similar type of world, Crawford just does it differently than Jamal does. Jamal does not care about the fact that he is intelligent, but he goes to Mailor Collow because he wants to make his mother proud of him. There are points in the movie where Jamal shows people that he is intelligent. He wants to show people that just because he is black…

Synthesizing a dispassionately honest narrative within a romantic setting, Rudolfo Anaya satisfies both Latinx and non-Latinx audiences alike with his unique portrayal of the daily triumphs and tragedies experienced by Chicanx families in the American Southwest. A transcendent exploration of the lessons of history and the unforeseen potential of the future, Bless Me, Ultima unearths the contentious affairs between innocence and awareness, modernity and tradition, and the role of culture in…

“The Alchemist is a beautiful and heartwarming story with an exotic favor...You may or may not agree with Paulo Coelho’s philosophy, but it’s nonetheless a tale that comforts our hearts as much as our souls.” -Bergensavisen. While Santiago is on his journey, he learns lessons that’ll lead him to accomplish his Personal Legend. These lessons help him in a positive and supportive way. Paulo Coelho is the author of New York Times bestseller, The Alchemist. In The Alchemist, there were many…