Writing Archive

Explore a curated collection of my writing, including psychotherapy insights, short stories, letters, and poetry, all compiled for easy access and reflection.

[a desk lamp, various ink bottles, a blade, an envelope enclosed with a ribbon and a penned letter].

  • hold the high ground

    ah you’re a cynic said in that dismissive tone that implies you are wrong to feel this way that they hold the high ground have you? i ask walked an inch in these brogues…

  • rules for

    if on a motorcycle run when one stops for gas everybody stops refills never go on a road trip with someone you don’t love always ask depressed people to do more not less if…

  • A Rant on being ‘Cool’

    I’m sick of ‘cool.’ Maybe it’s an age thing. Perhaps I’m passed it, passé, whatever: Cool is done. That cold sickening clutch that kept me in the face of mirrors and the thrall of…

  • Working as a Therapist or Counsellor

    Illusion and Collusion. From personal experience of working with clients, supervising others and the teaching (and/or training) of Counsellors I recognise how easily Counsellors find themselves colluding with clients. New Counsellors quickly can find…

  • passing slow

    out on the highway passing slow though construction here there used to be i say all nostalgia a place to park walk down by the river i’d love to take you along but now…

  • STRUCTURING OF TIME Chapter 18

    Transactional analysis understandings: Being bored for a long time hastens emotional and physical deterioration in much the same way as inadequate stroking does.  To avoid the pain of boredom, people seek something to do…

  • lying

    in that dirty street tangled up in feet the bull ran on left me with a hoofprint on my shirt on my back a scratch where the horn had torn through my girl screaming…

  • 2 glasses

    came with the bottle if i sat in a corner pretending to read the paper people would leave me alone sitting quiet not wanting to leave go home & it might be sunshine out…

  • left a note

    coward that i was not wanting long conversations how i’d definitely come to a bad end if i left her long lists of my failings poor lover provider tears & complaints without end just…