March 2011 - Posts

Losing Control
by Janey Goude

Situations are not always as they seem. People who are having control taken from them can manifest that loss of control as anger, withdrawal or stubbornness. They can be difficult to reason with and unpleasant to be around. This is true with adults and Read More...

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Dementia and Personality Changes
by Janey Goude

People with dementia, who have never been known to curse, suddenly begin using foul language. Science explains that the dementia has caused a personality change. In this case, experiential knowledge causes me to question science. I've witnessed a number Read More...

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Worth Saying
by Janey Goude

"...you would really only be saying that football was football - which is true, but not worth saying." - C.S. Lewis I'm a stickler for honesty, so I carefully consider the truth of my words before I speak. But I don't know that I've ever given any thought Read More...

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First Impression or Offense?
by Janey Goude

During a discussion about first impressions, I commented that once we form a first impression, we filter everything through it. A few days later I read this sentence: "When we retain an offense in our hearts, we filter everything through it." The similarity Read More...

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Don't Touch That
by Janey Goude

I have a new empathy for how my patients must have felt when I was going to be touching their painful body part. As a therapist, I am trained to tell the difference between active resistance from the patient and physiological resistance from the tissues. Read More...

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