Insights

It’s been said that a moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.

Although a brilliant doctor, Martin Ellingham was one of those people who, as his wife might say, would never quite fit in. He would never quite be ordinary.

A childhood devoid of any sort of parental love or affection had left him with a surety that he was undeserving of love. And it had deprived him of the tools most of us are equipped with when navigating the social aspects of life.

This was all he had ever known. But then he fell in love—twice. He was now a husband and a father. His love for Louisa and James Henry became his impetus for confronting his past in hopes of a better future for his family.

With the help of a gifted psychiatrist, insights into his past are beginning to shed light on the lifetime of experiences that have shaped him into the man he is today.

Yes, he will never quite be ordinary. But to quote his wife, “Maybe that’s not such a bad thing.”