by justinehardy | Apr 16, 2016 | Blog
Rejection ‘No!’. This is not a word that we are particularly good at using well. And it’s not the one we want to hear, at least most of the time. Of course there are the times when we skew a question because we actually want to get a...
by justinehardy | Nov 9, 2015 | Blog
Numb or Raw – the pain of feeling nothing or everything It was an odd argument, except that it wasn’t one—it probably just sounded that way—animated, two bodies leaning in towards each other, engaged, buzzing, hands waving, freighted silences...
by justinehardy | Oct 24, 2015 | Blog
The Divided Self – the inner civil war that we wage Just to clear up an important point, by divided I don’t mean those mental agonies that gets whacked with labels beginning with bi-, split-, schiz- or borderline-something-or-other. I want to look at...
by justinehardy | Sep 23, 2015 | Blog
Shame Why don’t we ask for help? I want to tell you about shame. It is like sea mist, rolling in silently, obscuring us from the world and the world from us. Shame clings, pervading and invading, blinding our ability to know what is true and what is not. Shame...
by justinehardy | Jun 10, 2015 | Blog
The loneliness of alone Why is being alone so hard for so many? When someone crashes mentally it feels as though they are in a living death that no-one else can have experienced, a torture that only that particular person can be suffering. There is a truth to this...
by justinehardy | May 26, 2015 | Blog
Recovery This is the third post of a series on childhood sexual abuse, examining what recovery really means. Earlier posts are here and here. Recovery is a word that once had an almost talismanic meaning, a power that seems to have faded. It has become folded in with...
