mental health
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Following The Gap
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… Continue reading
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Loving discomfort
I used to suppress everything, so I didn’t feel anything Get through it Survive it Bounce Close off my heart, live a shrouded life. Any discomfort was barely even felt Or felt in silence, private and… then pushed through, and… Continue reading
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Maybe 2025 won’t be (just) happy
Maybe 2025 won’t be (just) Happy Maybe it will be more. Maybe 2025 will be beautiful Maybe 2025 will be full. Maybe 2025 will be joyous or Maybe 2025 is when reality bites so strong its impossible to ignore. Maybe… Continue reading
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Walking in the darkness (and befriending it)…..(Advent reflection 2)
I love this time of the year. Its the time of year when I wake up and drink coffee looking out of the window and see how the dark blue early morning light changes through the colours into the sunrise,… Continue reading
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What if the story we live by, is a story we cannot tell?
Something happened to you Something happened to you..that wasnt your fault Something happened to you…that wasnt your fault….and you had to do something as a result that you cannot talk about. Something happened to you..that wasnt your fault…and you coped… Continue reading
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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
James Ballantyne 