I hate when I'm late for work every other day.-
translation-I love it when I'm able to get to my bus stop early & to sign in to work on time therefore I'd like to try to plan to take steps to positively reinforce that habit.

I give lorraine permission to feel just as she does and say just what she said and for me to feel just the way I do and to have said just what she said.

she says really mean and horrible things to me.

I love it when people talk cooperatively/peacefully over an issues.
They don't want me to commit to things voluntarelly

I love it when I am able to motivate myself torwards an ambition and that motivation is encouraged
by the people around me.

you shouldn't feel so sensitive to what your therapist is saying to you. You should feel comfortable with
someone talking about sexual encounters by your age.
If you can't handle someone saying something like this how are you gonna handle someone saying something worse in the real world? your so weak your not strong.

you shouldn't because you have to be strong and proud all the time and you have to not care about sex and relationships and money and make sure you always have to express to your family disinterest in those things.

You've done all this reading and you can't even handle someone saying something like that to you, you'll never get stronger.

Boy when she said those statements and I responded with such feelings of shock I felt so discouraged I was really hoping I had been stronger than that. It would be really easy for me to give up on myself but I'd like to try to continue trying other strategies to

When I notice insecurity in myself I sometimes feel discouraged and hopeless because I am needing the self-worth I

I choose to avoid expressing much interest in money because I want to avoid the possibility of my family not taking my artistic interests as seriously as I would like.