You & Your Family

Asking the right questions

The enquirer stated in her email that she was looking for a counsellor who was experienced and competent, as her husband could be a “difficult man”. I guess she meant…

A time to ‘Man Up!’

  As a Family and Marital Therapist, I have learnt not to assume when couples come for marital counselling that they naturally want to save their marriage. Even so, when…

Pilgrims on a quest

  A word we do not often use to describe ourselves is that of being a pilgrim. This may be because the notion of being a pilgrim is rather foreign…

Lessons along The Way

My wife and I recently took a holiday unlike any other we ever had. For 10 days, we walked along an ancient pilgrimage route ending at Santiago, Spain, to a…

Who do you go to bed with each night?

The late Anthony Yeo, often acknowledged as the Father of Counselling inSingapore, once gave this advice: the television (TV) should be banished from the bedroom. He felt its presence would…

Driven by our desire

YouTube was all abuzz when an American actor declared that he had a “dirty little secret”: for some time, he had battled with an addiction to pornography. This started a…

Unequal wealth, unequal giving

I have never been one for figures. In school, Mathematics was one subject I never could get my head around despite my best efforts. I put it down to being…

Focused attention

  These days, with so many things demanding our attention and energy, giving our focused attention to what we are doing is often a challenge. We seem to be torn…

Standing the test of time

  Two postings in the newspaper’s ‘Obituaries’ section caught my eye the other day. The first was for a woman in her 90s. It carried a list of her clan…
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