Journey
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Climbing up the healing path of knowledge
However hard it is at times, to respond and cope, the key thing that ive discovered is that is helpful to know. When you just know. When its more than panic more than a feeling. More that knowing that it… Continue reading
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Already I’m glad I started more therapy
I’ve only had the first session of therapy. But already I’m glad. Maybe therapy can feel like running a marathon, the hardest part is getting to the starting line. Wondering what it will be like Wondering what to say Wondering… Continue reading
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For 40 years I was trying to keep the wrong rules
Deep down what are the rules that shape the way you act, the way you feel, the way you think about yourself, the way you think about others? Give yourself a minute or two Which of them might be the… Continue reading
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Men; do we need to talk about guilt and shame?
It was part of my healing that some of my guilt turned to anger. When I realised that what I thought was my fault was a burden that wasn’t mine to carry As I discovered that someone else’s emotions are… Continue reading
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Why my healing didn’t start at therapy
At the end of a year in which i had separated from my wife (now ex-wife) after I had left the family home to move into a friends house, with barely any money, I had a one day a week… Continue reading
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Football bypassing: Why is football the only topic men can talk about?
I was sitting on a socially distanced ‘packed’ train back from a weekends travel in Scotland a few Saturdays ago, I am sitting on my own, bag on my next to seat, reading a book, there are many other people… Continue reading
James Ballantyne 