"I can't understand why anyone who has had their dog since it was a puppy would ever have another puppy," I say to my daughter while I try to get a piece of stair carpet from between the jaws of our second puppy. "I suppose we forget what's it's like," she says with the air of freedom that comes … [Read more...] about Doing What’s Important Imperfectly
Self Acceptance
The Futility Of Time Management
I'm in supervision having a familiar conversation. "I've taken on too much work." My supervisor smiles but says nothing. I spend the next minute or so explaining what I've done, how I had planned to say no to a new project but, in the final shake-up, found it too interesting to reject. I … [Read more...] about The Futility Of Time Management
It Might Happen
I can remember once having a conversation with a client who suffered from an array of terrible anxieties in which he told me how hard he found it to either walk or drive across a bridge. One of the phrases I remember uttering to him in the course of the work we did together was something along … [Read more...] about It Might Happen
What I Really Want On Father’s Day
We're driving to Hereford to look at some puppies. The rain is falling in biblical style and has been since leaving home, nearly four hours ago. I call ahead to let the breeder know we're running late. "Oh, is it raining? We've had none here at all," he tells me. The sky clears when we … [Read more...] about What I Really Want On Father’s Day
Defining Catastrophe
Coming home from our morning walk in the park I experienced one of those rare moments in which everything seems aligned and joy clicks into place. It was short-lived. I saw the puddle of water on the kitchen floor first, and then, after my brain had started sifting through the possible ways it … [Read more...] about Defining Catastrophe