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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8 Years Ago: Birthday Dog, Spiritual High from the Junkie Journals.
I woke abruptly and my first thought was that it was Charlie’s thirteenth birthday. I immediately felt brighter than the last few weeks which had all been a shade of […]
4 Years Ago: Out of Touch, Rogue Cow and Runes
“One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.” Nietzsche 1883 It feels longer than four years […]
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 […]
9 Years Ago: Homeless, Heroin & Harm.
Notes from Journals July 2011 The decomposed body of a homeless guy was discovered at a derelict church in East the Water. The newspaper made a point of saying a […]
Photo Memories: Before Heroin, Before Loss.
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5 Years Ago: Severing the Thread.
I can’t believe it’s only been five years since I left my old life behind. Five years ago I was a heroin addict and sex worker, I lived with a […]
9 Years Ago: Living in a Tent, Heroin & Hope.
Reflecting on my journals as I finish off my memoir, I’m excited to be at this point, it’s been a constant in my life, the desire to write, the desire […]
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