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Growth, Risking the promise of colour
Heres a short poem and reflection on growth I wrote after watering my spring bulbs, do enjoy! Continue reading
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Surviving Psychopathic Parenting (Part 21) Accepting delusional normality
If you’re like me and have spent a lot of your life reading or watching politics, you may know about the phrase ‘hyper-normalisation’ . I dont know who coined it, but its spoken of in depth in Adam Curtis’ brilliant… Continue reading
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Surviving Psychopathic Parenting (Part 20) Turning up to school, with blood on my hands
(TW, Self Harm) There was blood on my hands every day I was in Primary school. No scars of the pain of abuse, apart from my own. Torn away skin On the top of my fingers. Every day pain. Squeeze… Continue reading
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Why its time to be kind..on the younger version of me
Sometimes I think about what my 42 year old self might want to say to my 8 year old self, or my 16 year old self, or the 28 year old? Sometimes I wonder what I feel about the 8… Continue reading
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Its time to realise our wonderful bodies
My body is wonderful And so is yours Have you ever noticed? Said those words, to yourself? Thought of your body as wonderful? Just as it is? Its no more wonderful larger, smaller, fitter, leaner, younger or older Because it… Continue reading
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Is ‘It’s OK for Men to cry’ too simple to say?
Its ok for men to cry Is said often. But I was wondering whether its said too often, without any thought about the complexity of this. I wonder if it’s said too easily. I wonder if women need to hear… Continue reading
James Ballantyne 