This week, I’m sharing an update from my Instagram feed – an IG Live video I recorded a couple of days ago. To say things have been difficult of late would be an understatement. I reflect on my recovery from an Achilles tendon repair, the mental game that has forced me into. I will sayContinueContinue reading “State Of Play – An Achilles Update.”
Tag Archives: Anger
The Battle Lines for my Soul.
Reflecting on my life recently, it is clear to me that anxiety has played a huge role – and it has metastasized into behaviors that have been destructive. My anxiety has fueled my anger and my thought processes to view the world and the situations around me incorrectly. The storm in my head. This week,ContinueContinue reading “The Battle Lines for my Soul.”
The Tyrannical Father.
The tyrannical omnipotent father is represented in mythology in the image of the devouring father, associated particularly with Chronos/Saturn who represents the archetype of the senex (Old Man). (Jung 1955, para. 298). I write this days afrer the occurance, having wrestled with whether to re-visit it at all. It is painful to reflect on my failingsContinueContinue reading “The Tyrannical Father.”
1982.
It feels selfish to sit down and write about what I’m about to relate, given that I wasn’t central to this story. I often feel I have no right to reflect on my experience of this particular time, which I believe had profound and long lasting effects on my family. My experience however, was centralContinueContinue reading “1982.”
That Which I Fear.
Today (December 20th), my Daily Stoic Journal question asked, “What am I really so afraid of?” The reflection in the companion book my Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman focused mostly on the fear of death, which is a pre-occupation we as humans do engage with. I do fear death but, as I write this, deathContinueContinue reading “That Which I Fear.”
Dean Mayes - Australian Author & ICU Nurse 