Journey
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Sorry Brene – I got you wrong
Ive got to admit I didn’t really want to like Brene Brown. Her name had been banded around for quite a few years, usually by the phenomenal women that I know…and on the ever shared many internet memes and quotes,… 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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My Early morning Wetherspoons Epiphany (Recovery and Healing part 10)
Im writing this in Wetherspoons Newcastle waiting for my hourly train back down the coast. Don’t Judge. I can see the pint of beer for £2.19 or less, and food on the menu with a free drink for under £7. … Continue reading
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How walking helped to heal me
Maybe each day you should just go for a walk Said my friend who I was staying with after leaving the family home in the midst of my breakdown. By myself? I thought? Without a purpose? Just a walk? Not… Continue reading
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On Comfort Eating, and my relationship with food
If the end to the abuse and pain was at the end of a tunnel made of bread, then I spent most of my first 40 years on this earth trying to eat my way towards that distance unreachable utopia.… Continue reading
James Ballantyne 