Writing Archive
Explore a curated collection of my writing, including psychotherapy insights, short stories, letters, and poetry, all compiled for easy access and reflection.
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Portugal
she’s sitting in the window all black & reflecting telling me what it means to be a woman the pain the blame the shame endometriosis & blood i’m listening like a fool wanting to…
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more here
never felt lonely if for long times there was no one around the wanting a good lover some kind of friend continually not to be found there were one nighters pass by load bearers…
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Siberia
corner of my eye a native intelligence warning me of a blonde bob coming my way i turn to look in a shop window tried to look interested old fashioned girdles frilly bra’s kind…
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under
a dangerous world where you learn to survive watch close listen intently for a change of mood colour on a face tells of anger the silence that precedes the violence to come under the…
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Chapter 9(b)
Resistance is useless… Resistance is attachment to outcomes; attachment to (any) outcomes creates suffering if you do not get the outcome you want. Happiness and peace comes from preferring the outcome you want but…
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Chapter 9 (a)
Money Do’s and Don’ts If money is what you value then money will make you happy. Though for the rest of us the objects, things, the stuff we buy only seems to satisfy us…
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disappears
i come in sometimes stand behind you & you have no clue being totally absorbed i try not to interfere & you don’t ever know i’ve been here she’s not complaining her tone is…
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went back
places we’d known sat on the ground top of the hill spot we’d spent nights out sleeping & loving but you weren’t around looking out over those city lights shining in the distance to…
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