By Amanda Atlas | Future Marriage & Family Therapist We don’t become our true selves in a single moment of clarity.We become through a thousand small deaths—quiet, painful, and often invisible. Carl Rogers, the father of person-centered therapy, believed in the actualizing tendency—a deep inner drive to become more fully ourselves. But what often gets…
Systems Theory teaches that people are best understood within the context of their relationships and environments, not in isolation. I didn’t know that language as a child. But I knew it. I lived it. There is something strangely easy about being invisible. When you are invisible, you aren’t noticed for the good or the bad…