For anyone unfamiliar with her work, the late Dr Joy Browne was an American psychologist and talk show host who specialized in on-air advice counselling.
She hosted a nationally syndicated call-in radio talk show for several decades, providing advice to callers and words of wisdom to her listeners.
Her shows achieved worldwide reach via podcasts and the Internet.
She had a legion of loyal fans who were devastated when sadly she passed away suddenly in August 2016.
Here are 15 quotes by Dr Joy Browne to illustrate why I believe she was an inspiration.
Quotes by Dr Joy Browne:
- Stupid and cheerful beats smart but angry. ~Dr Joy Browne
- Friendship is a relationship between equals. ~Dr Joy Browne
- You can only help someone who wants to be helped. ~Dr Joy Browne
- If you’re going to have to deal with it sooner or later then sooner is better than later. ~Dr Joy Browne
- Appearing to be reasonable is usually more important than being reasonable. ~Dr Joy Browne
- Being in a relationship that makes you unhappy is a bad idea. ~Dr Joy Browne
- You don’t need a reason to divorce someone you can’t stand. ~Dr Joy Browne
- The person who cares least about the relationship controls it. ~Dr Joy Browne
- Our feelings are not our responsibility but our behaviour is. ~Dr Joy Browne
- If we give up the notion that everybody’s life is perfect but ours, we would be a lot happier. Nobody’s life is perfect. ~Dr Joy Browne
- The role of parents is not to do for our children but to teach our children to do for themselves. ~Dr Joy Browne
- Good parenting helps our kids to walk away from us and not to depend on us. ~Dr Joy Browne
- Kids have to make their own mistakes because anything we tell them, even if it’s right isn’t as valuable as what they learn from doing something, even if it’s wrong. ~Dr Joy Browne
- If someone is being difficult, what you do is walk away because either they need some time to sort it out, and you can’t do it for them, or they don’t. If they don’t, well you might as well leave with your dignity intact. You can’t make someone love you, you really can’t. ~Dr Joy Browne
- The only behaviour we can ever control in this life, as much as we can control anything, is our own. Not anyone else’s. ~Dr Joy Browne
Dr Joy Browne with a Caller:
I hope you were inspired by at least some of these quotes, dear reader, and perhaps you’d like to explore some of her work further. An example of her on-air counselling is included here as an embedded YouTube video. This is well worth your time.
If this YouTube example appeals to you, you can still listen to her podcasts at TuneIn.com. Just click on this link and explore the possibilities.
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