Who Is Left When the Mind Fades? A PATH Journey Through Illness, Identity, and Love Inspired by Crystal Jing Jing Yeo, “Who is left, when illness takes away your mind or body?”, The Straits Times, Opinion, 5 December 2025. When illness quietly unravels someone you love, the hardest questions are not medical. They sound more like this: Who is left when memory disappears? Who is left when a body you recognise no longer responds? Who are we  in the face of that? In her Straits T

Some families are held together not by dramatic gestures, but by the quiet presence of a single person who carries kindness like a steady flame. No fanfare. No attention-seeking. Just a way of showing up that makes others feel safe. These quiet leaders rarely call themselves leaders. Yet they shape the emotional atmosphere of a family more deeply than they realise. Recently, I celebrated my brother-in-law’s birthday. It became a moment of reflection on how emotional safety is

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Part 2: When Empathy Is the Lifeline – What Frontline Care Taught Me About Healing Presence By Dr. Ivan Zy Lim, Clinical Psychologist,...

Part 1: Rethinking Empathy – Bridging East and West in Psychotherapy By Dr. Ivan Zy Lim, Clinical Psychologist, Transcultural...

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Preface This personal reflection is shared by Dr. Ivan Zy Lim, founder of the PATH Framework, as a meditation on the intersection of...

Title: “If You Met My Father in Heaven” By Dr. Ivan Zy Lim A few nights ago, my wife said something that stopped me cold. We were talking...

“Ten More Years: A Brother’s Reflection on the Woman Who Raised Me”   By a Clinical Psychologist Who Was First a Little Brother We were...

Twenty-three years ago today, my father was called home. He left quietly. No long goodbye. No last life lesson wrapped in perfect timing....

I once sat across from an 82-year-old man who told me, without bitterness, that he hadn’t had a real conversation in weeks.   His...

When someone hurts you deeply, unfairly, perhaps even intentionally, the modern instinct is to ask: “Should I forgive them?” We wrestle...

Appreciating your partner will add to your own sense of fulfilment and satisfaction, How will your partner know you appreciate her? Yes,...

At times appreciation comes naturally. When you are hungry and someone feeds you, when someone does you a favour, in these moments,...

Walking provides for observing the world. The faster we walk the less we see. Walking keep me interested without flooding my senses with...