Episode 215 – Don’t Pass It On

This was a difficult podcast for me to record because it explores a recurrent theme in my work, one that generates the whole spectrum of negative emotions for me and for my clients. Not only have I shared their anguish as they’ve found themselves in difficult situations that involved making painful choices because others wouldn’t, I’ve been there myself. While I don’t regret all I learned from spending two years with a physically and mentally impaired dog (which I wrote about in the BeeBee Chronicles), I have no desire to repeat the experience any more than I would wish it on anyone else. And most certainly I wouldn’t wish it, let alone try to impose it, on someone who wasn’t fully aware of what they were getting into before they got into it.