July 16, 2023
I had a question from a client this week variations of which I receive regularly. “I feel I’ve hit burnout and I don’t know what to do about it.” I opened with something like, “I spent a while wondering how to answer you and thought about it while I walked my dogs and looked at […]
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July 9, 2023
One morning last weekend, we couldn’t find the dog’s collar which made me irrationally angry. The two things I really can’t deal with, apart from goat’s cheese, are being late, according to my exacting routine, and losing things. So not being able to locate the collar made me late for walking the dogs which, if […]
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July 2, 2023
My therapist reaches into an old A4 envelope for my notes down at the side of his chair wedged between whichever book he’s reading and a travel mug I have never seen him sip from. These beginnings always take an age, a ritual of sorts. While he shuffles pages into order I look out of […]
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June 25, 2023
In the mid-eighties, I went on holiday to Corfu with my friend Adam. It was the first time I had flown and the first time I felt consciously out of control. Late one Friday the 13th as the plane sped down the runway towards take-off I thought to myself, “My body has never travelled at […]
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June 18, 2023
When I did the Belbin psychometric test to find out which team role I play most effectively, I remember less about my results and more of a jealous feeling related to people who were “Completer Finishers”. Everything tidy and settled is beyond me and consequently annoying. I think I was a “Plant” or a “Resource […]
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