strength

I want to start with the client I think about most often.

She was bed-bound in a care home when I first met her. By the end of our work together she had returned to living independently in her own flat, without carers or home helps.

I’m not telling you that because it happens every time. It doesn’t. I’m telling you because almost everybody involved at the start had quietly assumed that where she was, was where she would stay.

That assumption is the single most common obstacle I come up against, and it’s usually the first thing worth challenging.