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I believe that all people need to be listened to. There's a time in life when we all feel stuck or just tired, and want to find ways of feeling better about ourselves or our situation. Sometimes the problem is easily solved, but it can't be seen from the cloud that we are on. However, if we were able to take a look at the picture from another stance, we might see something we didn’t see before. I know that we all have moments of happiness and we all have moments of stress, but it's how we deal with these moments that matter. We can lose all hope and make the situation worse, or we can have faith and be positive and find ways that will improve the situation. I believe that there is an ANSWER to ALL PROBLEMS. In life we need to give and take, life is a compromise, you can't always push your way through. Learning to be patient and allowing for things to occur will sometimes result in the best outcome.
I remember growing up, my mother would always try to control every step my sister and I would take, and I know she did this out of love, but there is a time when as humans we need to learn from our mistakes. A time where we can look back up and see why that approach to our problem didn't work, and what we can do to change things. Life is like a, "puzzle," most of the time, all the pieces are there, but it just takes time to put it together and therefore patients is needed. What seems hard today, can be so easy tomorrow. Remember... we are the ones who decide what choices we make, so if you are not happy with your choices, it's okay, all you have to do is make changes to the choices you have made, or make new ones. Life can be really simple, but it's "US" who can make it complicated at times.
I believe we can all share and enjoy situations with others, and maybe through this we can see the other side to our problems. Through building ourselves and working on becoming a more positive person, we can start seeing all the beautiful changes than can occur right before our eyes. That's the beauty of therapy in my opinion, it opens doors to so many paths in life, that you no longer have to feel sad, alone, tired, or hopeless. Instead you will know that we all have choices, and as of TODAY Life is GREAT!!
-Mandana Saidi
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We have a Woman's Circle Group that meets every other Sunday at around 4pm.
Started with our first session Sunday Feb 22, 2010.
So, call for appointments and or email me to be on the list for the following time that we meet.
saidiMFT@aol.com
This group is for women of all ages, and ethnicities that want an opportunity to connect and to meet others that have possibly gone through some of the harder phases of life, just like they have, but can now look at things in a positive perspective with the guidance of their fellow group members.
Its a place to share, to listen, to laugh, to cry, and to care, and to be felt cared for. A group to provide support and understanding for one another.
Motivational Quotes
Dost thou love life?
Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharal Nehru
Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.
Alexis
Our life's a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently.
Palladas
The geat blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
Seneca
(7 B.C. - 65 A.D.)
Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.
Thomas Fuller
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure.
Kal Menninger
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
Hypocrites
After the game,
the king and the pawn go into the same box.
Italian Proverb
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
La Bruyere
Life is like a library owned by the author.
In it are a few books which he wrote himself,
but most of them were written for him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
We make our fortunes, and we call them fate.
Earl of Beaconsfield
The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
Elbert Hubbard
Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.
Herman Melville
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
Plutarch
Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
George William Curtis
The boundaries which divide life from death
are at best shadowy and vague.
Who shall say where one ends,
and the other begins?
Edgar Alan Poe
One way to get the most out of life is
to look upon it as an adventure.
William Feather
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Rainer Maria Rilke
To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler
One life - a little gleam of time between two eternities.
Thomas Carlyle
Life is a pure flame,
and we live by an invisible sun within us.
Sir Thomas Brown
As I grow to understand life less and less,
I learn to love it more and more.
Jules Renard
