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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Behaving Assertively
Basic Strategies for Behaving More Assertively 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…
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writing for the drawer
words never to be published subject to rejection slips terse emails your work does not fit with our current schedule thank you for your ms we are not taking in unsolicited work at this…
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some other life
a thin grey sea fret rolling down over fat green hills between me & the sea i was at war then in that far off bucolic happy valley with feckless people who could not…
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done
there’s a glaze there now where used to be eyes bright & alive & i’m thinking back was it something i said or done? conversations light & heavy depending on time of day thinking…
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Stories shape lives
(Correlations with Buddhism) As humans we understand and deal with our experiences by constructing stories and by listening to the stories of others. Our experience is filled with meaning and stories, it is these,…
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morgen gifu
one of those times between pay days curtains drawn hiding from the sun the rent man anyone that might come knocking without warning trying not to fight i knew she wanted more than this…
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letters
i wrote offering expressing all i could emote some better love than the one we had before & i meant every word strung out on the line wanting a future not realising you had…
