Episode description:
“If we spoke about his illness it made it more real. Of course he did know, he must have known what the prognosis was for his illness – ultimately for 100% of the kind of lung cancer that he had, it was fatal. I also think he feared that if he was spoken about in terms of being someone with this horrible potentially terminal illness, that he would be viewed differently. How? I would guess weaker, vulnerable, and perhaps even more than that, someone who in some way was not worth what they had been worth because they have this terrible illness.”
Areas Covered:
We discuss the phases of love that we go through in life which mature over time through our emotional growth. It is not only time that impacts our growing to be able to both love and receive love – it is also our environment which inevitably confronts us with opportunities and tragedies. Juliet Rosenfeld shares with us her journey of love as she went through the challenges of dealing with her husband’s terminal diagnosis and its impact on each of them and on their relationship. She walks us through the evolution of her love through her grief, mourning and now thriving life.
Our Guest:
Juliet Rosenfeld is a British psychotherapist, working in private practice in London where she sees adult individuals and couples. Ms. Rosenfeld received a Masters degree at the Tavistock clinic and has continued her training in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. In 2019 she began serving as an elected Board Member of the UK Council of Psychotherapy, which represents ten thousand psychotherapists and campaigns for mental and emotional wellness fully realized as a human right. In 2020 she was elected as a Clinical Trustee of the Freud Museum, London, the last home of Sigmund Freud and an important center for visitors from all over the world.
Juliet combines her therapeutic work with writing and has written on psychotherapy for various UK publications including the Sunday Times, Times and the Guardian. Her first book, The State of Disbelief was published in 2020.
