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Nobody with No-body.
Loving myself, meant loving my body. All of it. For 40 years I felt one form of body shame or another. My innocent nakedness was shamed early by my mother. Her favourite story to tell on every occasion, even to… Continue reading
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Silent Stories have Guards.
Silent Stories have guards. The ones that cannot be told. Wrap themselves Hide themselves Find a dark place And without permission Without choice Build their fortress. Build their army. Hidden to protect. Hidden to fester. Hidden to haunt. The story… Continue reading
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Will you be brave and give love a chance?
One of the reasons we men dont want to deal with our shit is because we dont believe we have the capacity to love ourselves. In many scenarios, whether from driven, neglectful, absent or collusive, abusive parents, Love was absent,… Continue reading
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Seeing Yourself Clearly.
There will come a day when you stop believing in your own smallness. The great collusion is over. Continue reading
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The Struggle….
The Struggle…….is the healing The Struggle…..is the real The Struggle………is where darkness and soul clash their fists And where something wounded reveals its truest need The Struggle….is the moment The Struggle…..is the sign The Struggle…..is the place Where past and… Continue reading
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In the Silence, From the Silence
As I was reading this passage from John O Donahue’s book ‘Divine Beauty’ this morning, I was inspired to write this: In the Silence, from the Silence In the Silence, from the silence, comes love from the heart of the… Continue reading
James Ballantyne 