Actions are not always words, but words are almost always actions. Choose both carefully. They either build relationships or they tear them down. Pretending that words are just words is a silly dodge. (33)
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To a greater or lesser degree, all people suffer from inadequacies of their flexible response systems. Much of the work of psychotherapy consists of attempting to help our patients allow or make their response systems become more flexible. Peck, M. Scott