For me, psychology and art interact and overlap in so many ways. Psychology is the study of the inner life and creativity… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Art Copy Share Image
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 Access Copy Share Image
There's a grip we sometimes some of us get on our pain and suffering and our past and our wounding that we… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Ifs Copy Share Image
My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that." — Kelly Carlin-McCall Healing Copy Share Image
The work is important and essential and I've had a therapist myself for decades and it's important work, but I knew that… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Career Copy Share Image
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 Hands Copy Share Image
I knew that I was naturally good at [therapy] because I was kind of that person in my circle of people in… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Circles Copy Share Image
I was supporting other people's creative dreams and I wasn't supporting my own. I didn't feel like I could really serve people… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Creative Copy Share Image
When I did my first solo show and it made my dad uncomfortable, I wasn't quite ready for my spotlight moment in… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Confidence Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I picked Pacifica was because, for a lot of classes and for your thesis, you could do artwork… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Artwork Copy Share Image
If you're never called, then you don't know any better. If you are called and don't answer the call, then that is… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Adventure Copy Share Image
This has been my struggle for years - the pull between wanting to be in the spotlight and yet also to make… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Art Copy Share Image
I didn't think I'd be a good therapist. I didn't think I could do both at the same time. Maybe some people… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Bigger Copy Share Image
There's a real careful line you have to walk there because your first job [therapist] is to create safety for the client… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Careful Copy Share Image
I used to be a person that wasn't able to laugh at myself easily. — Kelly Carlin-McCall Able Copy Share Image
Going through these academic programs, your job really is to learn how to be a therapist. They're training you to sit in… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Academic Copy Share Image
Being successful as a creative person is a crapshoot, but it's essential if you feel drawn to being creative that you express… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Be creative Copy Share Image
If you can see yourself more than just a victim, aha, now you've got the place to move into that is much… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Creative Copy Share Image
When I am ever in any situation that's getting too heavy, I lighten it up with humor. — Kelly Carlin-McCall Heavy Copy Share Image
I have known know many therapists who come out of Pacifica Graduate Institute and love being both artists and therapists at the… — Kelly Carlin-McCall And love Copy Share Image
Working with the body and the imagination - non-verbal ways especially - tap into our deepest wounds and our highest potentials as… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Body Copy Share Image
[Humor] could be dicey for a therapist and needs to be used very deftly. — Kelly Carlin-McCall Humor Copy Share Image
With regard to how I chose Pacifica, my story is interesting. I did not go to Pacifica to specifically become a therapist.… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Archetype Copy Share Image
You will be faced with facing all the things in yourself that keep you from knowing who you are, you'll have to… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Culture Copy Share Image
Right before I went to Pacifica, I had written and performed a one-woman show and I consider that to be my original… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Art Copy Share Image
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