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CLASS REPORT

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PSY 503A

Dr Ivan Suneel Samuel

Submitted by Wajiha Sabir 708768

Master’s in clinical psychology Fall 2021


The first and foremost thing you need to learn about grief is to: Accept it.

“I lost her or I lost him.”

Most of the discomfort comes from not accepting. Let loss become you. Allow yourself to go

through what you feel.

Fear hinders us from living life fully if the feeling is blown out of proportion. Being in the

moment is hard with that person. Allow people to feel the emotion.

People grieve differently, same way people express happiness differently. Figure out how you

experience and express grief.

If you feel like you dislike someone there are unresolved emotions which are unaddressed.

Sometimes words hinder us from feeling or expressing emotions. There could be more

emotions or a blend of emotions.

Learn to sit with a feeling. Don’t try to understand it, just let it flow out. Don’t teach your

children to stop crying let them feel. There is a physical self, emotional self and a spiritual

self. If we invalidate an emotion its equal to invalidating a human. Get in touch with yourself

there might be a lot of emotions there.

E MOTION

Energy in motion.

When we stop this energy from expressing it gets stuck. We need to release that energy and

experience the motion.

ALLOW YOURSELF, YOUR EEMOTIONAL SELF TO CRY AS WELL.

Anger is an untrue picture of strength its usually coming from another place.

“LET IT GO.”

When you don’t like something say: “I’ll actively let it go.”

When you don’t stand up for yourself, you get mad at yourself. There’s no next time.
Relationships are not made by fighting, calling names or by judging who’s the bigger victim.

Blaming the other person doesn’t help in making a relationship. You don’t fight for love.

You just love. It’s not love if you’re asking another person to change.

What to do when someone says something hurtful:

1. I AM HURT

2. But is this true about myself or not? Do I resonate with this?

Best things in life are never easy.

You can love someone without possessing them, you send love, and say: “because you’re

toxic I am just going stay away from you”.

A helpful prayer:

“Lord, help me to forgive others who sin differently than I.”

We all do wrong things but differently.

We are not trying to change people. Love is another word for acceptance but not accepting

the wrong behavior.

We often help others to fill the void inside ourselves and feel worthy.

If you’re feeling something you don’t need to understand it. Feel it. Only logic can be

understood. Reality testing is important. Anything you resist will persist.

Sometimes all the fears are tied in a knot. If you had no fears would your life be on the same

level. We limit ourselves, weigh ourselves.

Wherever we are today is because of us.

Wherever we will be tomorrow will be because of us.

Work towards it. “We cannot profess what we don’t profess.”


Self-reflection

I had a rough morning before this class. I cried in bed feeling unsafe and alone. I cried as

much as I could. When it was time for this class, I knew that my emotions would be all over

the place. I told myself “its okay. What’s the worse thing that can happen?”

We did an exercise with our Instructor and it was about imagining someone dead. I imagined

the person I love the most and have the most conflicts with as dead. It bought tears in my

eyes I thought how his dead would bring me so much pain. Then the narrative changed and I

had to imagine myself as dying. I wasn’t ready to die, I imagined my son crying for me and it

broke me. I felt like there was so much noise inside me; it was deafening. I wanted it to end. I

had a question: “what if the storm is not around you, but inside you?

To this my instructor replied: tell yourself that you accept and forgive yourself. “I accept you;

I forgive you. I choose to forgive myself and those around me for doing things which have

caused me so much pain. He said: “take small doses of acceptance and forgiveness and bit by

bit the storm will subside and one day pass”.

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