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From: Ginger West
Date: 20 Oct 2012
Time: 07:41:39 -0500
Remote Name: 108.250.185.40
I’ve appreciated reading this thread. It is so important to recognize that we, as adults, are constantly making choices about our lives and ourselves. Recognizing that we always have choices and feeling positive about those we make, I think, is invaluable to our happiness. My parents always talked about education as a road to broadened choices. You go to college and get that degree not so you can be that person/that degree/that job. You get it because it is something useful that you can always choose to use. Your earlier comments show that you both (Pam and Ryan) have mastered some fluency techniques. Though you don’t always want to use them, it seems that they are useful to you when you do want to use them. I wonder how you apply this thinking to therapy with children. Perhaps the goal with children might be to offer them skills so that they have more choices later?