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 […]
Why Therapy Won’t Fix You.
I remember the first therapist I ever had. He always wore a suit and tie and his room was full of dark leather. He used a metaphor involving a painting, with me being either in the foreground or the background. I don’t remember anything else about it, apart from it not being at all helpful, […]
How To Control Your Life
Back at school one of my daughter’s friends arrives with a striking new appearance. Teacher- ”Liv your hair is silver!” Liv – ”I know, I dyed it myself.” The nonchalance made me laugh out loud. Pulled up for a flagrant flouting of the school rules, in that momentary exchange between pupil and teacher, both are […]
Why You Have To Stop Making Excuses
Leaving Provence I am staring through the window of the train as we speed past a procession of faded patchwork fields. A stone farmhouse, weary cows spread thinly on gently sloping banks, and a patch of sunflowers dry, faded and with their heads bowed in submission. It is as if the weeks of unrelenting hot […]
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