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Stinker to Finca
How a Failed Buddhist Chased the Big Time

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Musica
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The western ways are dying

Stinker 12 October No Comments
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Last night I got an email from Los Angeles that made me whoop. Turns out […]

Musica
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Bass is the Place

Stinker 3 September No Comments
2 minutes

The first time I really heard the loaded, full-bore rumble of the double bass, I was stopped […]

Musica
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Time will tell on you

Stinker 18 August No Comments
2 minutes

Every Tuesday evening, mum and I would drive 10 minutes to Auntie Pat and Uncle […]

Healing
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Life-Changing Injury (1/2)

Stinker 16 March No Comments
3 minutes

I walked out of the lift into darkness. Where was I? The light leaking beneath […]

Healing
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Kindness as Risk (2/2)

Stinker 11 February No Comments
3 minutes

When I found out a few days ago that Lawrence had published a book, a […]

Healing
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Kindness as Risk (1/2)

Stinker 5 February No Comments
4 minutes

“And what makes you think you have anything worth saying?” Even if Lawrence hadn’t paralysed […]

Healing
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Pills

Stinker 8 December No Comments
3 minutes

Some of the deeper learning in our lives comes, for many of us, out of […]

Depression
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When it’s thrust upon you…

Stinker 2 December No Comments
3 minutes

“What you’ve done takes a lot of courage,” Danny says as we round the corner […]

Healing
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Marks out of Ten, please

Stinker 30 November No Comments
3 minutes

“Have there been any changes to your health since your last visit? Are you taking […]

Depression
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Project Depression

Stinker 6 September No Comments
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“When you’re really focussed on your goal, the anxiety will fall away.” “Right..” I replied […]

Family
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Home Brew

Stinker 19 August No Comments
3 minutes

Uuurrghhh, I said as my mum spat a mouthful of home brew into a bucket. […]

Healing
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Taking the Law into my own Hands (2/2)

Stinker 18 August No Comments
3 minutes

My best bet, I reckoned was to ask John Hopkins to repeat the question. It […]

Healing
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Taking The Law into my own Hands (1/2)

Stinker 17 August No Comments
4 minutes

My mind was a perfect blank. This was bad. I looked beyond the thinning hair […]

Healing
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What Happens in Vagus…

Stinker 11 August No Comments
3 minutes

Most people who are intimate with panic attacks probably know a thing or two about […]

Writing
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The Challenges Ahead…

Stinker 7 August No Comments
3 minutes

Do you remember that novel I wrote in 11 years? That catalogue of every, last […]

Healing
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YOU ARE ENOUGH (2/2)

Stinker 6 August No Comments
4 minutes

About a week ago, the makers of The Tapping Solution app launched a You Are […]

Healing
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You Are Enough (1/2)

Stinker 5 August No Comments
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My phased return to work is now complete and in the interests of not returning […]

Writing
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Turning Pro

Stinker 3 August No Comments
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I spent 11 long years writing my first novel – 11 years that I wouldn’t […]

Work
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Quiet Desperation

Stinker 2 August No Comments
1 minute

I live a life of loud desperation.

Healing
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OVER THE GOSPEL PASS (5/5)

Stinker 2 August No Comments
4 minutes

The conversation between Aunty Mary and Nigel has turned to trees. Aunty Mary can name […]

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