Some Thoughts from Virginia Satir
Virginia planted the seeds of hope toward world peace. She once said- “The family is a microcosm. By knowing how to heal the family I know how to heal the world.” The Satir Model – Virginia developed became a powerful framework for examining self your situation and choices. Counselling sessions encouraged the client to face pain and problems, to accept the present and to discover inner joy and peace of mind.
“Problems will always be with us. The problem is not the problem; the problem is in the way people cope. This is what destroys people, not the problem. Then we learn to cope differently, we deal with the problem differently, and they become different.”
“I would like all of us to live as fully as we can. The only time I feel awful is when people have not lived a life that expressed themselves. They lived with all their ‘shoulds’ and ‘oughts’ and their blaming and placating and all the rest of it, and I think ‘How sad.’”
“Words don’t have any energy unless they spark or trigger an image. The word in and of itself has nothing, nothing. One of the things I keep in touch with is , ‘What are the words that trigger images for people?’ Then people follow the feeling of the image.”
