When is the last time you read about love and treating clients that wasn't about boundaries and ethics?

Have you ever read about love and how to utilize love in clinical relationships?

I haven't.

Yet the majority of people claim some belief in a higher power and over 50% a belief in a god. Most of those beliefs coalesce around values to include compassion, love and caring. So why aren't we as professionals talking about how those core personal beliefs concretely and directly impact our work moment to moment with the client? How can PT's talk about the "The Art of Caring" and then only exhort p-values?

I am asserting you don't have to like all of your clients….but you do have to love everyone of them.

Same goes for your co-workers and 3rd party intermediaries.

Anything less and you are practicing with a serious break in your personal integrity….unless of course you are one of those who don't think love has anything to do with it. 

To practice from that perspective is very difficult. The principle is simple. I work at every day and fail at it multiple times a day. So I get up and try it again the next day. 

And I laugh at me…because after all, if I can't love my human imperfections, no one else has a chance.

Love matters. Period.