Love, Art, Life — All That Slips Through Our Hands
On Art, Therapy and Letting Go
Sometimes a client disappears without a word. No goodbye, no reason. Just gone.
I’ll never really know if it was because I wasn’t helpful, or because I was.
I’ll never know if something I said stayed with them, or if it all faded the moment they left the room.
I know that feeling well from being a theatre performer.
Some nights I stumbled through a show, certain I had failed, and someone would say it was the most moving performance they’d ever seen.
Nights I poured every ounce of vulnerability into the work, certain the audience felt it too—the reviews would come back cold.
What connects and what doesn’t. What heals, what misses. We never really get to know.
Maybe this is what it means to be human: to be uncertain, conflicted, suspended—while growing up in a world that tells us we should always be sure.
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Warmly,
George Chan
This Is How We Heal
George Chan, MCOU, is a Counsellor, Grief Educator and Breathwork Coach who specialises in helping individuals navigate grief and loss through his private practice, This Is How We Heal. With a rich background in theatre and entertainment, George brings creativity and empathy to his work. When he's not in the therapy room, you might find him performing, choreographing, or working on a new production—or spending time with Luna, his Jack Russell Terrier, who doubles as his unofficial co-therapist and production critic.