: About Me

I have been writing, in one form or another, since i was 13 years old. I still write simply for pleasure although my work in psychotherapy led me into writing addiction-treatment programmes. i really enjoyed the challenges of communicating difficult ideas to groups of people who spanned the full gamut of 'previous education' - from those who had not been in any sort of formal education to those who had degrees and doctorates - without dumbing down and without the ego-inflating waffle of pseudo-science! I think that understanding the emotional impact of writing and bringing some awareness of the discourse-practices we bring to our writing is key in maximising clarity and impact...but THAT'S waffle, huh?!?!? I'm a humanist and know that if I can write from my heart then it will find it's way onto the hearts of others. As Baktin said - be careful what words you use, you don't know whose mouth they've been in!

I've written for general publication only once and had that published online in HLT - a great source of inspiration and new ideas for humanistic teaching and more

I would like to write about therapy and get as much non-Freudian, non-CBT ideas out there as possible - we're not ALL dried up academics or plain crazy in therapy-land!

My passion is ...

I have so many! I build my own hi-fi, mountain-bike, and like exploring the meaning of life, the universe and everything with friends...preferably surrounded by nature.

I know too much about ...

HI-FI (according to people i collar about it!)

My parents always told me ...

Foolish things based on their own problems

My childhood ambition ...

I wanted to be a veterinarian

My favorite memory ...

A summer I spent with the most amazing woman I have ever met.

Why I write ...

To explore...

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Heroes, Awakening The Will by Coenraad van HOuten and the Upanishads...at last!

My first job ...

Selling hats and caps on a little pitch on Portobello Road, London

My best moment ...

On occasion, being a worthy witness of the work of some amazing clients...tooo hard to pick just one.

My inspiration ...

My lifelong drive to understand myself and others

Religion & Spirituality > Pagan & Earth-Based Religions Do shamanic symbols have any importance?

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Once upon a time there was a man locked up in a castle. It was a barren and terrible place that brought out the reality of men - those who were good were better, those who were bad were worse. The man met a woman there one day who agreed to teach him a job he thought he might like to do some day. But the tides were treacherous in the Sea of Men and that future was delayed by a great storm. As the storm raged, the man and the woman had many long conversations about life, about his life in particular, and about the meaning of life, and what she had found and where. She gave him a book that t...

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