Trauma
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Like wading through treacle. Trying to walk through fog. Every now and again I get one of these. Beyond the healing and surviving. Beyond the self understanding, and in the safety, peace, love of my new life. Maybe I thought i wouldn’t get these. Maybe I had a vision that once undergoing therapy, once with…
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‘Working with trauma is as much about remembering how we survived as it is about what is broken’ (Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score, 2014) I broke my grandmothers bedside clock. I didn’t kick it, throw it, sit on it, drop it or smash it with a hammer. At age 4 or 5, over the…
James Ballantyne 