There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.

Being in one's 50s is a powerful time.

It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing.

Ive really written my books for my husband and our family. Theyve brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.