Transformational Teachings from Counselor Jane Ilene Cohen

…if you take a ridged stand on a judgment about what this means about his character, you have shut the door to a way forward.

The real danger is not the physical action someone might take that would be harmful to us, but it is the distorting of reality that is transferred, like a computer virus hidden within a Trojan horse.

“…We’re talking about really being true to yourself, which means you honor your real emotions, which is the only way a relationship could possibly work in the first place. …”

“Taking the action is not the most important thing. The important thing is to straighten out whatever is causing the conflict about the action…”

“… You don’t have to be in pain in order to be vulnerable. Vulnerability really has to do with love. And actually the bottommost truth about the painful areas we’ve been talking about has to do with love…”

“Men tend to easily see themselves as the center of the universe, and women tend to see the men as the center of the universe, and there is a lot of conflict that happens because of that. But both men and women are evolving and bringing more balance to this.”