Healing
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Realising; I am not my mind (but try telling my thoughts that!)
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… Continue reading
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Gentle eyes.
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… Continue reading
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From Denial to Love: My Body Transformation
Transformation is through the body, not away from it (Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now) I think I read ‘The Power of Now’ about 3 years ago, im not sure if there’s been a month since when I haven’t gone… Continue reading
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Men, Why do we find it hard to love our bodies? (Part 1)
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… Continue reading
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The Truth will make you Free (but….
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… Continue reading
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To the Shadows, Stranger and Friend
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… Continue reading
James Ballantyne 