Reflections
“You can’t sit with a client’s pain if you haven’t known that kind of pain yourself”.
You Don’t Have to Have Been There — But You Can’t Be Afraid of It On Empathy, Experience, and the Therapist’s Capacity to Stay Present There’s a belief, often spoken quietly or passed between therapists, that you can’t sit with a client’s pain if you haven’t known...
The Martyr Myth
When overcommitment looks like loyalty — but quietly costs the system. Every team has one. The dependable one. The first in, last out. The one who knows everything — and shares very little. They’re seen as heroes. But they often become bottlenecks....
The Importance of Self-Awareness
If we don’t develop self awareness we can be like a programmed machine sleep walking through our lives. We become simply an accumulation of what has gone before and the result of what happened to us in the past. But it is possible to break from the tyranny of the past...
Depression as a sign of health
Why do people get depressed? Feeling low and anxious is something everyone experiences at times. Suffering from depression is not the same thing. Depression leads to a loss of interest in things that would ordinarily give us pleasure. A frequent account is: “Playing...