Janice Shapiro, MA, LMFT California Lic #86051

Psychotherapist for Marriage, Individual and Family Happiness 


"I didn't understand the magic of those words then, and I don't understand it now. I know only this: that when my mother told me she had not been the mother to me that she wished she'd been, she became that mother for the first time."

                       Educated

            A memoir, by Tara Westover


READING RX

​​​​​"It was amazing, the effect a father had on a person. A father was the benchmark that told you what to expect. What to accept. And, perhaps most importantly, what to believe about yourself."

                     The Younger Wife

               A novel,  by Sally Hepworth


     Reading stories can be very revealing and that is the purpose of this special page. READING RX is a selection of quotations straight out of some of the novels and memoirs I have enjoyed.

    Quotations can be interpreted in many ways, depending upon  life experiences. Think about them independently, or share with friends and family. Opening the door to seeing the world from different viewpoints enables wonderful relationships and the ability to know you have choices.

     Please visit often, as new quotations will appear periodically for your READING RX pleasure. 

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"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end."

                           The Maid

                     A novel,  by Nita Prose

"That's  what parenthood was about, wasn't it? Slowly understanding your child less and less until she wasn't yours anymore but herself."

                      You Will Know Me

            A novel, by Megan Abbott

              

"Over time, I realized the best revenge wasn't retaliation. Letting other people see I was still standing, still moving forward, became enough. I started to believe that the greatest way to win wasn't through bitterness, but by focusing on the people who were there....In the end, success and love were the best  ways to show the world I hadn't been broken."

                       Born Lucky

          A memoir, by Leland Vittert

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"We now live in a culture where affluent, educated, and well-connected people validate and affirm the behaviors, decisions, and attitudes of marginalized and deprived kids that they would never accept for themselves or their own children. And they claim to do this in the name of compassion."

                      Troubled

                 A memoir, by Rob Henderson

"The stories write us, you see. We read something that moves us, touches us, speaks to us and it...it changes us."

                 The Wishing Game

           A novel,  by Meg Shaffer