Ever since I was little I have loved to do jigsaw puzzles. The harder they were, the better. I hadn't done one for many years until my husband Alan and I bought a house in rural Brittany The winter evenings there are lengthy and quiet and we discovered, once again, long lost evenings by the fire with a jigsaw - a relic of childhood.
In my work as a homoeopath I've used jigsaws countless times as an analogy for life. When working with people's cases I have to take all the pieces of their lives, look at the individual parts and then try to put them all together so something makes sense...some kind of pattern emerges until I see the bigger picture - just like a jigsaw. I reflect all of this back to my clients so they can begin to understand how to take control of their lives. If they wish, we can then work together for a while until they feel ready to take off and fly by themselves.
