In their article, "Breaking Someone's Sugar Habit" the folks at avani-mehta.com make a very good point which therapists would do well to observe.
A mother brings her son to Gandhi because the boy is eating too much sugar. She wants Gandhi to cure her son of this bad habit. Gandhi tells her to leave and return in two weeks. At the end of two weeks she returns with her son to see Gandhi who tells her son to stop eating sugar. When questioned why he didn't say that two weeks earlier Gandhi replied, “Mother, two weeks ago I was eating a lot of sugar myself.”
And that is why he was such a great man.
Like Gandhi, therapists must do our own work if we want to help others.
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