by justinehardy | Mar 7, 2018 | Blog
‘Don’t try any of that bullshit about understanding’ Finding ways to understand that we cannot understand The ‘bullshit’ line was how he began, the man in front of me who had seen too much. Here was someone trained to tolerate more than...
by justinehardy | Nov 13, 2017 | Blog
Distraction – why are we so easily distracted, by anything and everything? Here we are, the primary primate. In holding onto the top spot, we have managed to wipe out a thousand species in the past century. Stretch this out across around two hundred thousand...
by justinehardy | May 29, 2017 | Blog
Bouncing – not as babyish as it sounds… …and often a lot more effective than drugs The room was full of adults bouncing, jammed together in a space that was too small, all of them trying hard not to bounce into each other. On that...
by justinehardy | Mar 11, 2017 | Blog
What does resilience mean? When it seems as if there is nothing left in us, when we long for more strength, more inner fight, what is it that we are really asking for? ‘How do I become more resilient?’ asked a young man, his eyes too old for a nineteen...
by justinehardy | Jul 31, 2016 | Blog
Out in the Backcountry—Post Traumatic Stress At the moment I am again in the disconcerting backcountry of PTS. I know this place. The terrain is ugly, but it is also familiar. I can predict where most of the attacks are likely to come from, and what is...
by justinehardy | Jul 15, 2016 | Blog
Autonomy and Control—and our human need for both It’s interesting thinking about autonomy, sitting here now, in Kashmir, the whole valley curfewed, everyone confined, shut in, locked down. And it was another version of interesting when flying out of the...
