A recent article by Dr Sandy Miles highlighted the fact that, in the case of trainee doctors, shame is a highly prevalent, though rarely discussed, emotion that is experienced by many of them. Unacknowledged, it can easily become something that damages their...
Over the recent High Holidays in the Jewish calendar, we are told that from the lst day of Rosh Hashana (new year) the book of life is opened and ten days later, on the Day of Atonement the book is closed, and our fate is sealed for the coming year. During...
Two or more truths in a healthy world or relationship should be open to safe debate and lead to a deeper and more informed connection between people, but where there’s only room for one truth, catastrophe beckons. Both in society, and between...
While trying to think about what I wanted to blog about and getting nowhere I happened to meet with a couple with a difficult issue they wanted to address. It often happens that my clients provide me with blog inspiration as well as tricky issues I sometimes struggle...
‘All couples have some irreconcilable differences. But when partners can’t find a way to accommodate these personal disagreements, the result is gridlock…’ [The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work’ Gottman & Silver] When couples gridlock over momentous...
It is very fitting that LONELINESS is this year’s theme of Mental Health Awareness Week 2022. According to the Mental Health Foundation, one in four adults feel lonely some or all the time. There is no single cause and there’s no one solution as we...
