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Take a moment and have a look at this photo. What do you notice? The Misty shrouded mountain top? The Stone wall? The Green fields? As I stood and looked at this scene just before Christmas, the thing I noticed was the gaps. Gaps. Intentional spaces between a barrier, or border, space left open. A…
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Last night Christelle and I were watching this film Marilyn Hotchkiss’ Ballroom Dancing & Charm School The Trailer is here Robert Carlyle Dances. Yes. But there’s much more to it than that. It was a film that centred Men and their dealing with emotions, such as grief, anger and memories. Yes, it wasn’t perfect and…
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It sometimes feels an effort to have fun – dont you think? well it does for me Nothing is stopping me, I can do what I want, So what cant I? But then I started to realise why… its those voices in my head, the critical ones, the sensible ones…these ones… ‘Are you boys having…
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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…
James Ballantyne 