Erin Foster Quotes

I wanted to be a counselor or social worker. That's one of the reasons I was a psychology major.

I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.

I think talking things out is therapeutic.

Specifically, my time in therapy has changed my life. It was such a relief to have a trained professional listen to my thoughts and help me positively restructure my thinking.

But we were talking about me and my problems." Sophronia looked Monique up and down gravely. "I don't think we're going to solve those in the space of one carriage ride.

I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.

I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.

To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while.

Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.

Most people do surprisingly poorly when dealing with a relative who is hurting, depressed, or anxious - we get defensive and try to solve the problem rather than finding the truth in what the person is saying.

I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.

Once I'm satisfied and I've made enough money where I can afford to live in Malibu, because it's very expensive, I will definitely be back there.

I believe deeply in therapy. There's no one in the world who wouldn't benefit from it.

When you ask people what affects their wellbeing most, they think of health and wealth.

Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.

I'm not really comfortable just helping clients with counswling and referrals. I want to prevent this shit from happening.

I can speak a little German, a little Spanish, and I was a psych major, so I'm good at listening to people's problems.

I went into therapy several times, but it rarely made an impact.

I think that therapy is great and can be incredibly helpful.

Looking back, I'm really happy with the choices I've made in my career. I know for a fact I could be wealthier. Who knows, maybe I could be more successful, maybe not. I don't know. But just about every single thing I've ever done I've gone into with the right intentions, and that goes a long way.

Going through something difficult in your life, music, for me, is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out.

If I had a whole other life, I'd be a psychiatrist.

I've been honest with a lot of the problems I've had in life. Everybody has problems. They can relate to that.

It's incredibly rewarding to have people come up to me at readings and say, 'I'm not Chinese, but this is the relationship I have with my mother.' Or say, 'Your book made me think a lot about my parents, and I've decided to sign up for counseling.' That is mind-boggling.

What's worse - loneliness or a relationship that inevitably leads to costly therapy sessions?