July 2, 2017
Here’s another guest post from Martin Pankhurst. Martin is a recovering alcoholic who now runs support groups for people in recovery from drug and alcohol abuse and other addictions. He is currently working with me to create online programmes to help people with dependency issues, and their families. If you’d like more information on this […]
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June 25, 2017
Friends since school we’d drifted apart. Like broken pieces of a boat which, having sailed quite peacefully for years, had run aground dramatically and without warning. Drawn, defeated, held firmly in the grim clutches of alcoholism and with a recent cancer diagnosis I felt as if I had come face to face with a living […]
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June 24, 2017
The summer I spent five weeks in a psychiatric unit I ate mint choc chip ice cream for dessert every day. I sat at the same table, in the same seat, with the same people. But inside everything was changing forever. On the cold buffet table one day I drew attention to a small card […]
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June 18, 2017
Sitting at my desk wondering why everything gets dusty almost as soon as its been cleaned, I hear a mother talking with her child on their way to school. I miss the first part of the exchange but the response from the woman to her son is clear. “You’re just like me, you like to […]
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June 12, 2017
My mother died on November 5th 2007, quite suddenly after an illness of less than 24 hours. Apart from the shock which followed I was already in the midst of a particularly difficult phase of life. On top of that, after she’d gone, I came to realise that the relationship which I had always considered to […]
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