Psychotherapy provides a unique opportunity to have a meaningful conversation – the conversation about your life. In the frantic tempo of modern life, it can be difficult to have time or energy for any conversation. I often hear from my clients about how tired they are when they get home, about how the last thing […]
Archive | June, 2013
Boats Against the Current: Psychotherapy and Learning to Row Against the Past
I was recently reminded of the last lines of the great novel “The Great Gatsby”: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” These words are also inscribed on the tombstone of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda Sayre. Gatsby is, of course, a novel about the inevitable […]