Healing
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There was one addiction I had to cure. It wasn’t alcohol, drugs, sex or shopping, it wasnt biting my nails, chocolate or coffee. It was NOISE I had a Noise addiction. Since the tender age of ‘Radio 5 is amazing and I can listen to football matches on it’ about 13, thats what I was…
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One of the confusing things about growing up and living with someone who is emotionally abusive (and this also applies to physically abusive too), is that they are rarely abusive all the time. Some people are, and that id learned to switch off from my parents at an early age would indicate that I knew…
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I feel like there needs to be a broader conversation about men and processing emotions in day to day life, after incidents of violence and racism, and not just during special events like #mentalhealth awareness weeks. If football/alcohol cause the emotions to explode.. Then those emotions are lying dormant, waiting to come out. Yet, those…
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One of the hardest things for me about rebuilding after trauma is to do it. Its not a linear thing, but I find it fascinating that what I needed in the midst of dealing the traumatic situations was a calm cool head, the oft said ‘breathe’ and as Van Der Kolk writes about, to use…
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I realised something the other day, Im quite enjoying the football at Euro 2020 (in 2021, but you know, Covid etc) , and its not just having the crowds back in, or just from yesterdays two thrilling games of 14 goals with France, Switzerland , Spain and Croatia. But its something else. I cant even…
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A beautiful blessing on the healing of wounded history ( from John O’Donahue) , that I saw share by Andy Raine and wanted to post here as a gift and reminder to myself. For Someone Awakening To The Trauma of His or Her Past: For everything under the sun there is a time. This is…
James Ballantyne 