Therapy
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On two separate occasions when I was disclosing to the relevant authorities the abusive behaviour of my mother, I was asked the following question. ‘Why are you doing this now?’ It was 25 years since I had left the family home, and been a terrified abused child. Though her behaviour was still the same even…
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Something happened to you Something happened to you..that wasnt your fault Something happened to you…that wasnt your fault….and you had to do something as a result that you cannot talk about. Something happened to you..that wasnt your fault…and you coped in life with self soothing strategies…that you cannot talk about either. Something happened to you….that…
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I have waited a full year to tell you this story. It’s a personal one, but I hope a good one, and please do bear with the length of it, grab yourself a coffee or tea and strap in. Maybe many of you have been reading my work for a while, if you go back…
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I have written before about a certain pink coloured book (link here to that post) that I consider to have changed my life, in terms of how I could see what had happened to me, and the behaviours of others. However. There was another book that I had read 6 months previously that had as…
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I am really so so very grateful for my mind. Like extremely so. It’s a place of learning, a place of processing, a place of interpreting, a place to understand. It has also been my place of safety, or maybe more so my place of escape to. When emotions and feelings were unsafe, and love…
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Be Thou my Vision Rocked the 5 piece band, singing the International Christian College song back in 2004. Open the eyes of my heart Another popular worship song from that time. Eyes. Seeing And often it was all about how to see others. Open the eyes of my heart, to see you (God), open the…
James Ballantyne 