Something from grad school that has stuck with you?

Is there something an instructor said or did or taught that has really shaped how you do therapy? Would love to hear others’ :)

Mine are - 1. Early on in program, teacher was talking about trauma. A kid raised his hand and asked ‘what if we’re working with someone who has no trauma?’. Teacher, a bad bitch who had been a therapist for several decades, slams her first on the desk and says ‘LIFE is traumatic. We grow up, we leave our parents, they leave us, friends come and go, we move, we leave and grow and change. Life is filled with sadness even without bigger traumas’. I still think about it, and share it with clients somewhat often when it seems relevant. 2. In my first ever fishbowl, the teacher telling me to not be afraid to use facial expressions…and I think that’s now one of my biggest interventions overall! 3. Had a zoom instructor who was trying to show us a video but she couldn’t get it to play correctly. After a few minutes she says something like ‘okay gang, this is stressing me out, I’m really sweaty now, let’s all take a 10 while I go change my shirt and eat something’. She was so vulnerable and authentic that I still think of her as such a big role model as a therapist and in life!