Category Archives: perspective: healthcare professional

Living through uncertainty

Posted on February 2, 2021 by coalfacecaring

I wanted to share a thought with you this morning. The realisation starting to hit me that I am feeling a little more anxious at the moment. I then accepted that I find this time of year a little tricky. … Continue reading →

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Spiritual Discernment (Continued)

Posted on July 31, 2018 by coalfacecaring

What more is there to say? But then let us suppose that the ‘high wire’ artist singles me out from other bystanders with an invitation to “wheel me across” the same ravine “in (his) wheelbarrow”. Ah! That is different. As … Continue reading →

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“TIME AND TIDE WAITS FOR NO MAN”. (Continued from previous blog.)

Posted on October 7, 2017 by coalfacecaring

And there is another important lesson for all of us to learn here. I remember returning home from university during undergraduate days at the commencement of vacation, about two years after my father had died. At the time of his … Continue reading →

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’Shades of Einstein”·. (Cont’d from previous blog).

Posted on December 20, 2016 by coalfacecaring

Textbooks will ‘tell’ you that it was one Aaron T Beck who originated a theory of emotion and emotional problems, by defining their core problem in depression as a “thinking disorder”. This disorder, so he explained, developed out of “negative … Continue reading →

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