mental health
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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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(John O Donohue, Eternal Echoes) Then you know. When you know. That. You. Have the freedom to think differently. Differently from those who want to determine your thoughts. Differently from those whom you have to please. Differently from those who have taken it on themselves to be your thought and belief police. Differently too….. from…
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To feel it I had to feel it. Just like when I was on the beach today with my team, a day out in the glorious north east coast, at Whitley Bay/ Cullarcoats. Food was eaten, the sun was out, yes there was a westerly breeze. Old me would have kept his shoes on. Old…
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A piece on the effect of feeling conditionally ok.
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I thought it might be useful to share the different ways in which I have written / journaled throughout my healing journey, and wonder why it might be challenging for men to start.
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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…
James Ballantyne 