“I need to acknowledge that she may have controlled my past, but she doesn't have to dominate my present and my future, too”

“You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.”

“The good news is that you may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future. You don't know me at all.”

“I love metaphors and she has come up with the idea of lighting candles to symbolize my past, present, and future. My past and present were the two candles we started with; she would ask me what I would like to start with or deal with today. I would light up either my past or my present depending on the answer. During the last few sessions we've used the candles I've noticed my past melting more and more and becoming duller and duller in light.”

“I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.”

“The past and the present wilt. I have fill’d them, emptied them,And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.”