Therapy
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Over the past 8 months, through Trauma Therapy, I’ve been getting in touch with my inner child. The remarkable thing was, I didnt even know I had one. A child. A child part of me What I began to realise was…I had spent my whole life parenting other peoples inner child.. But not my own…
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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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The first layer is the toughest to crack. It took something major for me, it might do for you To admit, finally. To creak open that iron clad exterior That protector. That protective layer. That thing you’ve been using to hide everything vulnerable inside. Staying busy Helping others Survival of the responsible-ist until it cracks…
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In my last piece I shared a little about how we love ourselves through healing, what it means to be kind on ourselves, as we do so, forgiving our missteps, not over dwelling on the tiny attempts to try that fail in the bigger picture of overall healing. Today I have come across this concept.…
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‘Why are you reading those, they’re just children books’ I once said to my late friend Bex Lewis about 7 years ago, and then I sat with her and watched a scene of one of the films, one with dementors in, I think. Fast forward a few years and my daughter Anna proposed that we…
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Im not going to feel that now No, its not going to hurt me, I’m going to go rigid Switching off Numb I decided not to feel anything from a long time ago. It was the easiest thing at the time. It was more than that, it was a self protective thing, because of the…
James Ballantyne 