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].

  • Chapter 4

    De-Stressing:     Sometimes we bottle things up or hide things from people. Sometimes we think that it’s not OK to let people know how we’re feeling or that we’re not coping that well. This…

  • Two Deaths

    Two Philosophies: The Witness as Experiencer.  neil benbow:             “The Death of Fear is Doing what You Fear to Do” (Sequ’lchie Runningdeer)              “You do what the circumstances around you dictate, but when those…

  • MEN WHO CONTROL

    (this essay was published in counselling magazine) This essay is written for trainee Counsellors, Counsellors, those who have survived Controlling and for those still in such relationships. In this I write regarding the behaviour…

  • Controlling Women

    (this the one the counselling magazine wouldn’t publish) I’ve written earlier of controlling men and the violence that can become part of that behaviour, for women my contention is that violence is not often…

  • BUCKLOW: A town like many others.

    This is not a good place, like those towns that promise you smiles, or enjoyment, Bucklow does none of that. Bucklow is straight as die in promising you zip and keeping to that promise…

  • beatties

    by name & nature. I came back to the family home after a year in care to find another family in my home. I’d be three or four. this family (the beatties) were supposed…

  • Tio Noel

    the uncle who co-opted me, used me as a sacrificial pawn in his rotten games. the uncle who pretended to be my father if his parenting never went further than the occasional Christmas or…

  • to the forgotten social worker

    some things you have feelings for if you even if don’t know why: I hate blue Volkswagens the reason for this not coming to me until I was mid twenties being offered one for…

  • book 1 chapter 3: assertiveness

    Strategies for Behaving More Assertivel Relationships are the essentials of life and society. Our relationships, loves, hates, commitments and duties make us what and who we are. These human bonds are so much a…