Approximate reading time: 6 minutes I find it very interesting how so much of my life at the moment, somehow seems to link in with each new poem at hand. Same life lessons, different contexts. ****** So, last week was pretty great. I was a happy mummy to one doggy child. While walking Bailey …
Category: Anger
The final decision
Approximate Reading time: 10 min Written 22nd of April 2021 My first EMDR session was scheduled for today I woke up more anxious than I care to say I’m not a morning person (Understatement of the year) Sometimes it’s 2pm before my anxiety disappears When I’m feeling like this the walk to school is never …
Exhaustion
Approximate reading time: 6 min Written 14th of April 2021 I’m exhausted! I’m exhausted! I’m so fucking tired My defences are shot I feel so completely wired No safety, no containment just over-sensitivity I’m so fucking exhausted of people’s opinions hurting me I get it! I know… I give them that power I’m the one …
The “Enablers”
Approximate Reading time: 6 min Written 4th April 2012 I’m feeling a little irritated going to purge it out A random comment passed today Which was essentially about… My interaction with Jude (the horrible cook) On our engagement yesterday in which we both partook The headteacher gave reassurance I’m not the only one Who finds …
Finding my words…
Approximate reading time: 14 min Thank you for all the prayers…. Poppy is pooping again! (It’s not quite the right colour mind you, but one must be grateful for small miracles. 😉 As I said in my post on Saturday this poem took me almost two months to write. Two months of continual fighting with …
Frankie & Johnny
Approximate Reading time: 8 min Written 8th March 2021 I watched an old movie late last night which left me feeling irritably contrite Michelle Pfeiffer , Al Pacino in “Frankie and Johnny” pretty good reviews as far as I could see “The perfect love story, for these troubled times” “A feel-good romantic comedy!” were some …
Childless by Chance
Written 17th March 2021 Grief like love Takes on many forms Yet we live in a world That so often ignores… “Be positive Don’t look back always uplift You, alone have the power to make the mental mind shift” But so many griefs Are engraved in our souls A child losing a parent Will always …
Flipsides of a coin
(Approximate reading time: 8 min) Dam, this back-blogging is difficult;-) I kind of see why people so often ‘sanitize’ their stories and leave out the yucky, dark parts of it, because when you are feeling happy and sunny….. it’s sometimes the LAST thing you want to go back to. At the moment, I feel a …
Triggered
Estimated Reading time: 8 min A little catch-up in my story;-) In February 2021 I had been working full time, for just over a month, teaching in the Reception class (with the Lovely Mrs Shawnigan;-) and that was when I started my Compassionate Inquiry studies with Gabor Mate. The world by that point, was slowly …
The Hump
Written 2nd of February 2021 We live in a world, as far as I can see, where we constantly judge others and won’t let them be. We take our own truth, what we believe, Painting it all over other people we see. We assume we are right, that our way is the best we send …