Healing
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What have I done to deserve this? Salvation through The Pet Shop boys (Healing and Recovery Part 11)
What is the music that saves you? That carries you? Is it music that makes you dance in the kitchen – despite the ‘rain’ or pain? Is it music that soothes? Is it music that takes you to that place of joy? I recently started a conversation on twitter titled ‘ what is the music…
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‘When we (Men) reach out and be vulnerable, we get the shit beat out of us… and dont tell me from the guys…but from the women in our lives So I started interviewing men and.. You show me a woman who can sit with a man with real vulnerability – ill show you a woman…
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Hey folks, I just wanted to write a piece about what’s been happening with me in the last few weeks and months as Ive realised that my writing on this blog has dried up a little. One of the things that ive realised all along with keeping a blog like this going, keeping it interesting,…
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My body is wonderful And so is yours Have you ever noticed? Said those words, to yourself? Thought of your body as wonderful? Just as it is? Its no more wonderful larger, smaller, fitter, leaner, younger or older Because it is wonderful, just as it is. Have you ever noticed? Or stopped to? Then do…
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Its ok for men to cry Is said often. But I was wondering whether its said too often, without any thought about the complexity of this. I wonder if it’s said too easily. I wonder if women need to hear this message too. So its not just men who need to hear that its ok…
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‘You’re just so ungrateful – after all I’ve done for you’ In my previous piece I talked about how my abusive caregiver in the way in which they cooked food, often would create inedible food, that actually could be damaging to eat, making the food so uncomfortable, that expressing gratitude or thanks was an act…
James Ballantyne 