The Psychotherapy Practice of Lynn Chauvin-Bezinque, MS, LCAT, MPA

10/13/2025

“Montaigne, the great French philosopher, adopted these seventeen words as the motto of his life: ‘A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.’ And our opinion of what happens is entirely up to us.”
— How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie

05/06/2023

"Feelings are information. When you get angry or you attack yourself/collapse, it means you care about something. It might also mean you feel vulnerable, overwhelmed, or scared as well. Anger covers that up so you don’t have to feel the vulnerability, the care, that’s driving it. If you feel the care when it arises, you can choose a response rather than reacting with anger or collapse."

Anger only ever arises because there is care first. Which means the first thing to arise, before anger, is caring. First caring, and then we make the conscious or

02/01/2023

Helpful words.
Author unknown.

01/05/2023

"Your body goes to where your energy already is". Where is your energy going right now?

08/06/2022

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/07/16/the-crane-wife/?campaign_id=58&emc=edit_ck_20220718&instance_id=66939&nl=cooking®i_id=79410655&segment_id=98839&te=1&user_id=74077c905f9a1f39a49d0122b8ab5fa5

Ten days after calling off her engagement, CJ Hauser travels to the Gulf Coast to live among scientists and whooping cranes.

06/22/2022

How We Gaslight Ourselves

1. Make excuses for other’s bad behavior. Instead of holding them accountable, we blame ourselves.

2. Invalidate our own feelings – “It’s not that big of a deal and other people have it worse”

3. Feel you are too sensitive, so you feel ashamed of your emotions and repress them further.

4. You don’t trust your own judgement and constantly second guess yourself because you don’t believe your own intuition.

Author Unknown

05/16/2022

05/16/2022

Food for thought:

How to Practice Non-Judgment For a Healthier and More Positive Mindset Posted on November 14, 2018 Just about every single thing you experience is filtered and categorized as positive, negative or neutral by your mind. When certain experiences are judged as “positive,” and create positive feelin...

04/12/2022

Not sure of the source but I love it-

04/01/2022

“I tell you: one must have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.”

​— From Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

03/04/2022

03/02/2022

Powerful thoughts on how to find yourself anew:
“How to find transformation? Teach yourself to attune to it. Find things that make you feel expansive. Find things that make you feel alive. Transformation is in letting go of your rational idea of what you know you should do and notice what you move towards, what you are curious about. Find people that energize you and make you feel more alive. It’s letting go of what you think you should do, where you think you should go, and just do the next thing you know to do.” quote from Boyd Varty