When I am ever in any situation that's getting too heavy, I lighten it up with humor. Kelly Carlin-McCall More Quotes by Kelly Carlin-McCall More Quotes From Kelly Carlin-McCall The unconscious mind is way bigger than the conscious mind. Using tools to access its wisdom and self-organizing features is powerful medicine. Kelly Carlin-McCall medicine powerful self With regard to how I chose Pacifica, my story is interesting. I did not go to Pacifica to specifically become a therapist. I went to Pacifica to study Jungian psychology and archetypes and mythology and there were many different programs there. Kelly Carlin-McCall psychology different interesting If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have a real life skill [become a therapist]. Kelly Carlin-McCall skills artist real There's a grip we sometimes some of us get on our pain and suffering and our past and our wounding that we over-identify with it. If we laugh at it, we're saying, "Oh, I'm laughing at myself, which means my victimhood isn't all of who I am." Kelly Carlin-McCall pain mean past My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that." Kelly Carlin-McCall healing mother laughing I took everything really seriously and was overly sensitive about things, and I think that's rooted in perfectionism. Kelly Carlin-McCall perfectionism sensitive thinking I used to be a person that wasn't able to laugh at myself easily. Kelly Carlin-McCall able used laughing There's a real careful line you have to walk there because your first job [therapist] is to create safety for the client to feel safe enough to turn their vision in towards themselves and their experience in the moment and to reveal things that usually carry a lot of shame or that kind of stuff around. Kelly Carlin-McCall safety real jobs Right before I went to Pacifica, I had written and performed a one-woman show and I consider that to be my original art form. Spaulding Grey and Karen Finley and other spoken word artists and performance artists really very much interested me, that art form. Kelly Carlin-McCall grey form art Being successful as a creative person is a crapshoot, but it's essential if you feel drawn to being creative that you express it. Kelly Carlin-McCall essentials creative successful The work is important and essential and I've had a therapist myself for decades and it's important work, but I knew that I wanted to work with people who are more functioning and that's when I decided to pursue my performance career full-time. Kelly Carlin-McCall careers important people I remember going on vacation for two weeks once and one of my clients who was very clinically depressed really could not handle it, really unraveled himself. That scared me. I didn't want to be in that position. Kelly Carlin-McCall vacation clients two Being a therapist can be very serious though. There are people's lives in your hands. For me, it was too much. Kelly Carlin-McCall too-much hands people
![](https://service.weibo.com/share/share.php?url=https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/my-mother-used-to-say-when-you-can-learn-to-laugh-at-yourself-a-lot-of-healing-comes-from-that&appkey=&title=Kelly Carlin-McCall quote: My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of...&pic=https://whatsmyquote.com/images/quote-93f177528268d1bb502d2e4d5c86bdcb.jpg&ralateUid=&language=zh_cn){kind=link}
![](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/my-mother-used-to-say-when-you-can-learn-to-laugh-at-yourself-a-lot-of-healing-comes-from-that&description=My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that."&media=https://whatsmyquote.com/images/quote-93f177528268d1bb502d2e4d5c86bdcb.jpg){kind=link}
