Healing
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Trigger warning ; Childhood abuse, self harm, spiritual abuse. I saw this from the beautiful Kat Shaw Artist yesterday: Her work is incredible to predominately female audience, on the female body, healing and self image. I always love it, I love this one too. Yet it provided me a question; How many times as a…
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it may piss you off first) On a walk back from town this week, in the bookshelf of Darlington’s new LGBT Bookstore I saw this book. I seriously laughed out loud. The Evangelical Christian I used to be would have got angry at this violation of the Bible verse. Today I thought I would do…
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Do I dare take myself into my own shadows? It won’t be a walk on the brightside Far from the lights into the wild spaces The lost areas Do I Dare? What am I afraid of? What might find me there? What might be lurking in the midst of me? Fearing the fears themselves Who…
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There was a time in July/August of last year when I was going through a pretty significant mental spiralling, down down and down. I was plagued by the bleak thoughts of self criticism, self sabotage, blame and self loathing, all things I realise I have been carrying since childhood, and all things triggered by events…
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I had expectations for today. Last Saturday I was working, today I am not. When I was out walking during the week I was talking to a dog walker who was telling me about the Otters in Darlington on the main Skerne river, saying that the best time to see them was in the mornings.…
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I attended my first ‘religious’ service for quite a long time yesterday, I haven’t gone to ‘church’ for a long while, though I used to, weekly. But yesterday in my team meeting, as I work for the methodist church, we shared communion. A number of the team brought something to share, including songs, poems and…
James Ballantyne 