Emotional Support Navigator Gifts

'Things must be pretty tough on poor Marge since Frank left.'

"Sometimes ... I just want to run away."

Surfing the daily stress

The Map of the Human Heart

Codepetdency Counseling: "He won't even sit on my lap anymore."

"So, how are we doing with our trust issues?"

"It is now that moment when a close family member tries to speak of the deceased without choking up."

I applied for a job with NASA but they turned me down. I think it was because I told them I wanted to be an astronaut because in space, you can't cry because there's no gravity and tears can't flow.

The Wishing Well

'He's never there for me.'

"My wife and I handle our own finances. I'm an accountant and she's a grief counselor."

Twice a year, Uncle Mort and Sadie Cohen have an official relationship talk. While this biannual conversation is scheduled by mutual consent under long-standing treaty, some participants engage grudgingly. Let's talk about our feelings. I don't feel like it. That's not a feeling, Snookums! Loophole!

''Normal' seems too much to shoot for ... but maybe I can keep you out of the nuthouse.'

"When you hold me like this, you make me feel I can do anything."

"Only time can heal a broken heart, Brenda, and fortunately I have the time, every Thursday at three o'clock."

"I'd like to see you every Tuesday, forever."

"Have you tried sitting in a box?"

"Adolescence can be a very trying time, Mr. Alcorn."

"I know he's little, but he uses it."

"I'm referring you to another therapy dog."

You're bottling things up, aren't you?

"Yes, I came back. I always come back."

"I see your thirty. I hear your thirty. I validate your thirty."

'It's good to talk.'

"If I didn't worry all the time what would I do with myself?"

Florist.

"You seem very remote."

"You were always my favorite to guilt-trip."

"One day, son, all this anxiety will be yours."

"Seasonal depression and existential depression and political depression for the trifecta."

"To tell you the truth, I never thought downward mobility would be so, well, downward."

'... and then he slammed the door in my face...'

"I broke off the relationship, then came the endless reminders, the sad letters and emails...It's tough cancelling a subscription."

"People can bridge the great distance between the Earth and the Moon..."

STRIP *Community Care * Office rage"