Thought for the Week: Cutting the roots

Bob Johnson considers how to cut the roots of destructive behaviour

by Bob Johnson 8th March 2013

Trauma pickles the mind. If you break a leg, everyone can see the damage. The mind is different. With physical injuries: you know you can’t walk – it’s obvious. This is not always so with the mind. In some ways our minds are beautifully simple, in other ways so complex we’ll never understand. The key to cutting the roots of destructive behaviour is to make sure you are dealing with the first, and avoid getting bogged down in the second.