Whenever anything difficult happened in my mother’s life, she would say “I’ll put that on the back burner.” This meant she didn’t want to talk about it, think about it, and she definitely didn’t want to feel it. The message was that it was best not to dwell on difficulties. I have noticed that many […]
Many people think about going to therapy but relatively few actually do. It’s a scary step to take, crossing the threshold of the consulting room door, into an unknown world bound by confidentiality and filled with mystery. Turning up at my door can be particularly difficult because it’s at the top of three flights of […]