Katherine Woodward Thomas

I don't think there's many people who can say I've had the opportunity to teach 60, 70,000 people in live classes where there's interactive coaching and people writing it and stuff.

So I'm a clinician, right?

It's on the court.

And I'm a transformational teacher.

I didn't do that as a psychotherapist.

I did it as a teacher.

But these ideas are big ideas.

And they could actually turn psychotherapy into a new direction for those who are ready to move into a future forward focus and start to really take these ideas and work with them and see how quickly the work goes when you have the context of a positive possible future

And when you're willing to help your client to understand themselves as the source of the patterns and get off of the victimization, like take a zero tolerance for victimization, which doesn't mean they weren't victimized.

It's just the most powerful place to be standing in life for those of us who are fierce about getting over this.

So yes, you were victimized and let's not make a home of it.

You just don't progress.

You actually cannot progress in your life when you are making a home of victimization.

It's not an either or.

Yes, you were completely victimized, but victimization has two parts to it.

One is, who was I being that allowed that to happen?

Now, that's canceled in any childhood situation.

Okay, cancel, cancel.

You were never, ever, ever responsible for anything when you were a kid.

But, you know, who was I being on, you know, in that relationship that this person became so, you know, ended up cheating on me, for example.