Natalie Spautz, LMFT

Founder of The Conscious Partnership . @co_partnership
Couples Therapy | Supervision | Consultation | Financial Therapy |
*tweets ≠ advice*

[Natalie Spautz, LMFT @TherapyNatalie]

A healthy romantic relationship requires more than choosing a healthy partner- it also requires us to work on our own health too. If we're over focused on our partner's shortcomings while neglecting our own growth, this will lead to unhealthy conflict & chronic disconnection.

[Natalie Spautz, LMFT @TherapyNatalie]

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

- bell hooks

[Natalie Spautz, LMFT @TherapyNatalie]

Change can be hard. I often like to say that's one of the biggest reasons why I have a job.

If it were easy, we could just become the person we always wanted to be and do the things we always wanted to do overnight. Most often, that's just not how the process of change works.

[Nedra Glover Tawwab @NedraTawwab]

You can invent the life that you want by being aware of yourself and living your values.

#nedranuggets https://t.co/bGEwcPFh0V

[Lalah Delia 📖 @LalahDelia]

Elevating the way you treat people is also how you take your power back.

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

In inflation-adjusted dollars, health insurers pay 70% less for psychotherapy now than in 1979.

Other healthcare professions have kept pace with or exceeded inflation. Therapy alone singled out for "special" treatment.

This is what stigma looks like.
https://t.co/lOKxSRidFu

[Joél Leon. @JoelakaMaG]

imagine thinking you were meant to handle both the woes and joys of this world alone…

[Dr. Emily Anhalt @dremilyanhalt]

We are each a work in progress.

[Natalie Spautz, LMFT @TherapyNatalie]

Whether we are aware of it or not in any given moment, we are consistently in relationship to ourselves. When we take time to attend to ourselves, we nourish that mind-body connection and our relationship. This is inherently healing because distress increases with disconnection.

[Natalie Spautz, LMFT @TherapyNatalie]

Every person has their own healing journey, their own methods, values and reasons. Understanding this beyond a cognitive level, in a deeper way, we might find more compassion and respect for each other. And from there, deeper connection and healing in that stance of acceptance.

[Natalie Spautz, LMFT @TherapyNatalie]

When we struggle to connect to and hold our emotions, we go into a reactive state. Our reactivity often backfires and sometimes creates even more stress and difficulty in holding our emotions. That's why it's helpful to connect with someone who can hold them with you as you learn

[Natalie Spautz, LMFT @TherapyNatalie]

Our projections do so much. Without self awareness they keep us from knowing ourselves and other people. With self awareness, they are the key to understanding where we need to go internally in order to heal.

[Natalie Spautz, LMFT @TherapyNatalie]

I think the main job I do is to help people learn to love themselves and love each other better. I can't think of a more fulfilling job to do. Feeling gratitude today.

[Natalie Spautz, LMFT @TherapyNatalie]

My field of Clinical Psychology is undergoing a radical and necessary transformation. A true reckoning and an accounting for the ways in which BIPOC have been unseen, unsupported, harmed and left out of both theory and clinical approaches on both ends of the healing relationship.

[Natalie Spautz, LMFT @TherapyNatalie]

I imagine someone needs to hear this-

I know that it's hard, you don't feel well and you are struggling right now. It might be hard to imagine feeling better. It's okay to need support, you don't have to be alone. Life still has so many more new experiences left to offer you.

[Natalie Spautz, LMFT @TherapyNatalie]

The cure for burnout is not self-care. It is all of us caring for each other. We can't do it alone, we need each other.

- Amelia Nagoski

[Natalie Spautz, LMFT @TherapyNatalie]

When we surrender to what is true, we begin to accept it. When we accept what is true we can start the healing process.

[Natalie Spautz, LMFT @TherapyNatalie]

You are your best thing.

- Toni Morrison

[Natalie Spautz, LMFT @TherapyNatalie]

It's that moment when we realize we don't know, feel confused or feel lost, and have a desire to understand with an open mind and curiousity, only then can we come to know something new.

[Natalie Spautz, LMFT @TherapyNatalie]

@dremilyanhalt Agreed! And like everything else that exists in the world, what many need can be nuanced or complex. I find offering a depth process with some occasional tools is what helps most. Some don't want to go deeper, aren't ready for lasting change or dont know it's possible/trust it.