Month: February 2019

Where should we be best behaved? One of my patients admonished his son about his bad behaviour. “Come on Jamie, you don’t do that at […]

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises. – Angela Merkel A patient of mine, Christine, demonstrated grace in an unmistakable way. I had only three hours […]

Change, or learn forbearance. One of my colleagues came up to me after a lecture that I gave on change with a particularly […]

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. – Norman Cousins One of my patients, Phillipe, is a former ski instructor. Never one to waste an opportunity […]

We each define love differently. My patients repeatedly teach me that couples can have very different ways of showing ‘love’ – and have different […]

Julia came in with her husband, Rob, having had an affair 17 years into their marriage. Rob was understandably devastated, […]

You are responsible for what you say, and how you say it. Stephen reported that, “I’m constantly assessing – like a Geiger counter – what the impact of what I’m going […]

Labelling: it’s what you do, not what you are. “I don’t expect that (my husband) Chris, would ever come in to see you, but I’m hoping to be […]

Hearing is not listening. Emma and Luis had already taught me a valuable lesson. Emma announced that much of the […]

It’s the other person’s world that counts. Luis is South American, and married to an English woman, Emma. She was […]