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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this who
i used to be finding papers written in another hand that i recognise at once as being mine yet written in a foreign tongue understanding them if still with distance far off eyes looking…
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touches up
The Boxer touches up pats his gloves against his opponent pads back to his own corner to kiss his trainer the second wishing him well expressing love & later after his victory i turn…
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that come
riding out there on the backroads twists & straights keeping a man alive taut conscious reactive ‘cos death comes from any side tractors trailers cyclists cotton tops going out for groceries doing just about…
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MY COUNSELLING APPROACHES
MY COUNSELLING APPROACHES MY INTEGRATIVE PRACTICE The person Centred approach to counselling is I suggest the safest and most grounded approach from which to begin counselling. In that Carl Rogers suggests ‘ground rules’ which…
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week after
i’d made a booze run buying wine in bulk the local co operative had a scale with a pump pouring 1.50 per litre x 1kilo for the table wine bought it in 20litre boxes…
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all this is
in the moment of slamming doors angry words threats & promises bad futures to come you think to yourself man this is hard the letting go then come the hours sitting in your chair…
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these attempts
at a novel a series of short stories to try out ideas pages of notes to be fleshed out later but never are & this poetry that comes trying to tell others (the non…
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Dear Anthony
it’s been a while, eh? though we still keep in touch with text & the occasional email, we never get to sit & talk like in the old days. those times we worked amongst…
