The Need to Connect and Care

I love all my electronic gadgets – texting, tweeting, pinning and posting … but if you never take the relationship further, the interactions can remain quite superficial. I was reminded of this fact by Mari Smith in her great book ‘The New...

What Would You Do Differently?

If you had your life to live over – what would you do differently? It’s a provocative question to think about. Dr. Tim Lau gets to ask that question everyday – and the answers he gets may surprise you. Watch the third interview with Dr. Lau and let...

Having Control – Is It a Key to Happiness?

A lesson learned from Dr. Lau’s patients is that happiness does not depend on whether or not you have control of your life. It is not so much control over events but our attitude towards those events that have an impact on our level of happiness. In this...

I’m a Professional Caregiver – and You’re Not!

It’s really important to be professional and aim for excellence in your chosen field or occupation. But each profession has its Achilles heel…where professionalism become ‘professionalitis’. We’ve all experienced it – where the...

Can Caregivers Be Friends

For a friendship to be real it has to have certain characteristics: it has to have honesty and respect…recognition of the essential goodness of the other and a desire to share one’s inner thoughts and ideas. It also has an element of receiving the other. To be a...

Being “Real” as a Caregiver

We use masks to cover our insecurities and wounds, often placing a mask between our inner world and our outer world. What we share with others is carefully contrived to conform to a view of ourselves that we want the world to see. This is particularly true of...