Two Approaches To Adlerian Brief Therapy - Buncombe County ...

Therapist: Yes, and?
Client: Take care of my feet.
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Therapist: I’m going to tell you something an old teacher of mine told
me back in 1975 just before I went out to do my first
presentation on the Family Education Center before the
world famous Kiwanis Club. He said to me, “Just go out
and do it as if you know what you’re talking about.”
And I said, “Yeah, but I don’t.”
He said “Yes, but they don’t know that.”
I said: “I don’t know if I have that confidence.
He said, “You know when we were out tramping in that cow
pasture the other night, and you stepped in stuff, and made
a big deal out of it?”
I said: “Yes.”
He said: “Confidence is walking on as if you hadn’t done it.”
Now, then, this is a secret about life. There is no such thing
as a confident person: just those who are good at faking it,
and those who aren’t.
And the big problem, or at least part of the problem that
you’ve had in life, is that you’ve had the illusion that there
really are confident people out there: Somehow they’ve got
it together, and you just can’t seem to do it. But you see