On the radio, there is an interview with Polly Harvey about her score for a new production of “All About Eve”. She speaks with freedom about her art and, at that moment, I think of all the ways I have held myself back. Like love, great art relies on openness. Like love, openness can only […]
How To Take Your Own Advice
Waiting for a train, someone once asked me how, as a therapist, I deal with emotional disturbance in my own life. I replied that I generally have a good idea about what I need to do, but that it doesn’t necessarily mean I do it. When the human and the professional collide there is usually […]
How Emotional Muscle Memory Gets In Your Way
Listening to “Only Artists” on R4 this week Howard Goodall is describing the importance of breaking free from the “muscle memory” created through composing on the piano. Once your hands know where to go they tend to gravitate back there every time. It made so much sense when I thought about my own songwriting. Why […]
Why You Might Be Part Of The Problem
During a phone call with the mother of a prospective client I ask her why, if he needs help, her adult son isn’t calling me himself? No more than half an hour after the conversation I received an angry email from her complaining that I had made her feel that she was the one with […]
Why You Need To Accept The Consequences
Trying to spruce up the elderberry vodka which has been maturing nicely in the shadows at the back of a kitchen cupboard I turn to a bottle of elderberry cordial made in the distant memory of late spring. Popping the stopper there is a very loud bang and the ceramic bottle top hurtles into the […]
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