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… Continue reading
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How does Shame hold you?
‘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… Continue reading
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Healing for Men; 1 Year Update
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… Continue reading
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Its time to realise our wonderful bodies
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… Continue reading
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Is ‘It’s OK for Men to cry’ too simple to say?
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… Continue reading
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Surviving Psychopathic Parenting (Part 19) The gifts of toxic gratitude
‘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… Continue reading
James Ballantyne 