Healing
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Come take a walk with me, Walk through my suffering, Walk through my quiet silencing, Walk with me, and share my story Walk with me, so I get to talk too Hand in hand, Soul by Soul. Come take a walk with me Walk with me as I show my workings, Walk with me as…
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Will you be brave and give love a chance?
faith, Healing, life, love, Masculinity, mental health, morality, pain, power, relationships, shame, Therapy, truth
One of the reasons we men dont want to deal with our shit is because we dont believe we have the capacity to love ourselves. In many scenarios, whether from driven, neglectful, absent or collusive, abusive parents, Love was absent, and instead rules and expectations. In School, that wasnt the place either. And then there…
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There will come a day when you stop believing in your own smallness. The great collusion is over.
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You Can’t force your Jigsaw (But do open the box)
experiences, faith, Guilt, Healing, heart, love, memory, mental health, pain, parts, personal-growth, shame, Trauma, wholeness
Each of us has bits of us that we dont really like. Theres the bits of us that got damaged by our parents or family when we grew up, whether this was abuse, neglect, abandonment, the choices of our parents and the hurts of these. Theres the bits of us in school, the parts where…
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I had one of ‘those’ kinds of days today. The kind of days I used to have a lot of, and the kind of days I never used to notice. Today I had one of those days when I just felt a bit ‘meh’ a bit ‘unsettled’ a bit ‘I had expectations to try and…
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As men, we’ve been conditioned for generations to believe that strength means suppressing our emotions. We’re told that being tough, stoic, and unshakable is the ideal. We’re encouraged to “man up,” to push through pain, to avoid vulnerability, and to believe that needing help is a weakness. This outdated notion is not only damaging to…
James Ballantyne 