7 Years Ago: Sex Work Scare and Spiritual Recovery.
I’m continuing to review journals as I work on completing my memoir, the suggestions and advice of my editor has been incredibly valuable and I’m slowly working through it and […]
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10 Years Ago: In Search of Meaning and Space to be Kind. For All Who Care.
I’ve been attempting to inspire some change in my current state, my depression is persistent and cumbersome and has made it’s way into my physical being. I feel heavy, tired […]
11 Years Ago: Sex Work Secrets of Gypsy Me. Navigating trauma in all the wrong ways.
These photos are from exactly 11 years ago, I was unsettled and moving about lots, staying at friends houses and in holiday cottages, desperately trying to find somewhere to settle […]
11 Years Ago: Breaking Down and Letting Go
Eleven years ago I was in the process of breaking down, my mums death in February 2009 had released previously repressed trauma and I was struggling to come to terms […]
6 Years Ago: People in Pain and Dangerous Hope.
“Either the human being must suffer and struggle as the price of a more searching vision, or his gaze must be shallow and without intellectual revelation.” Thomas De Quincey 1845 […]
7 Years Ago: Historic Sexual Abuse by Teacher
“Wisdom comes with winters” Oscar Wilde Being dependant on heroin at this stage in my life did have it’s uses. Heroin cooled my emotional experience, it allowed me to disclose […]
8 Years Ago: Mental Health, Techno and Foot Fetishes
Reviewing my journals from eight years ago I was surprised at how much was going at that time. I was desperately trying to maintain links with my pre-heroin life, and […]
11 Years Ago: Sex Work Stories & Escaping Me.
I’m continuing my journey back through the last eleven years, as eleven years ago my life changed, My mum had passed away and I was in the process of having […]
4 Years Ago: Stigma & Stereotype- Just a junkie whore.
The photo’s above were taken during my methadone detox, it’s weird that it’s only four years ago as so much has happened since them, and when these photos were taken […]
Trauma Uncovered: Be Brave Little Warrior.
What happens when you have repressed or minimised your trauma your whole life and you finally reach a place of uncovering that and bringing it into the open. The result […]
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