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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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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but first
sometimes a pick up looks across the bar vague acquaintance party you have hope in plenty despite the rare returns the ones who steal your wallet booze food car keys music &books or piss…
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his birthday
went over for the afternoon light lunch then a pub crawl in the old town places we’d been in our youf’ couple of jars in i’m joking asking this mid-life time where was the…
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for a better day
all i needed for a better day waking up see her smile her hand in mine as we looked for a better way we were broke then living just above a busted store poverty…
