I love these books by Los Angeles pyschologist Stephen Poulter.
I first heard him on the Dennis Prager show a few years ago.
Here are some of Dr. Poulter’s insights that struck me:
* Start opening up the doors in your life that you think are locked. You might think you don’t have the right key, but you do.
* When someone tells you that somebody or something doesn’t matter, what they’re really saying that they can’t deal with it.
* What you want from your mom is what you want from your life. If you want acceptance or acknowledgment, you can give that to yourself.
* How you eat and how you feel about yourself are one and the same.
* Which parent did you marry? The parent we have unresolved issues with, that’s the parent we tend to marry.
* Emotional pain is what it is going to transform your life. Where do you want to go?
* Every relationship has an expiration date. Don’t judge it.
* If you don’t get past your resentment of your dad, which 80% of you haven’t, you’ll die on the vine. You enter adulthood the day you forgive your dad. If things have happened to you that are unforgivable, detach from it. Detachment is a precursor for forgiveness. If you can detach from it, you’ll free up energy.
