Category: Personal Reflections
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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…
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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…