Letter to a Difficult Loved One
When verbal communication feels too vulnerable, writing a thoughtful, emotionally honest letter can offer a clear, controlled way to express feelings, set boundaries, and potentially heal or transform a difficult relationship.
how professional boundaries keep everone safe
Your professor pays you many compliments, offers a research position and invites you to stay with them after hours to work… Your counselor is overly complimentary about your attractiveness and offers to help you work on your marriage without the presence of your partner while complaining about their own marriage. Your boss/preceptor invites you to pet sit in their home, then to co-present a paper at an out of town conference, dinner followed by hotel room…. A favourite patient who is about to be discharged asks to be “friends” on Facebook. A patient gives you a generous “free sample” of … More
