What the **** does that mean really?
What does it mean to “get over” something?
What about “sort it out”?
And as for “deal with it”, are our lives some variation on Blackjack that we just need the right hand to show up?
It’s one of the questions I pondered when I made the “Self Help Me Over” online […]
Have you heard the joke?
When is the time to get empathy from a doctor?
Before they’ve gone to medical school.
Boom. Boom.
Well actually it’s not a joke at all. It’s a researched fact, and not a very funny fact either.
Evidence has been building that shows a steady decline in empathy in doctors as they go through their […]
Medicine can be so arrogant sometimes.
How can doctors “save people’s lives” when people just die later of something else.
The latest cancer treatment announces it has reduced the mortality by half. Really. Please put the time-frame back in and say something like, “within the first 5 years after treatment.”
Human life is after all, as the saying […]
In my therapy work I have pretty much given up using the word forgiveness.
Not because it is a bad idea - heck no. Forgiveness is a key self help skill for being an effective human being.
It’s just that the people who most need to use forgiveness in their lives, have also been the ones who […]
Have you ever thought you were following instructions exactly as described, and then found out that you weren’t.
I just discovered that I’ve been incorrectly mixing the milk powder formula for my 1 year old daughter.
I’ve been putting in 3 scoops, when it was meant to be 33% stronger at 4 scoops. I had been adamant […]
If you ever want to start an argument with one word use this one, “No.”
If you ever want to start an argument with two words use these, “Yes, but…”
Even more importantly how often do you hear yourself use the phrase “Yes, but…” either out loud, or in your head?
At the first serious counseling training […]
TV has a lot to answer for, particularly in terms of therapy.
Television has been blamed for 101 problems in the world, and I’d like to add a few more.
For example, was there ever any likelihood of one of the characters in Seinfeld changing when they went to counselling?
What would have happened to the show if […]