Category Archives: Mental health

Waterfall dreams

Posted on April 14, 2023 by Jamie Jauncey

My first waking image yesterday morning, well before I opened my eyes, was of a magnificent jungle waterfall, cascading down through several levels and widening symmetrically as it went, the whole scene fringed by luxuriant green leaves. It was so … Continue reading →

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Alternative realities

Posted on October 31, 2020 by Jamie Jauncey

(Also available as a podcast here) When I was three or four years old my mother used to get me to sleep by telling me about the animals curled up in their burrows and the birds closing their eyes in … Continue reading →

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No return

Posted on May 15, 2020 by Jamie Jauncey

(Also available as a podcast here) Two weeks ago I wrote about how I was experiencing life in lockdown. This post reached the second-largest number of readers I’ve ever had, the largest being for the post I wrote the day … Continue reading →

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Perfect lives

Posted on June 15, 2018 by Jamie Jauncey

For the final day of our recent The Stories We Tell course at Cortijo Romero, in Spain, we invited people to write or tell a personal story that had not previously been told. The only rules were that it should … Continue reading →

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Poetry path

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Jamie Jauncey

In the hills a few miles outside our village of Birnam is a Camphill community. Here, on the Corbenic estate, 27 adults with learning difficulties live with their carers and a number of volunteers in 50 acres of agricultural land, … Continue reading →

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In memoriam

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Jamie Jauncey

It has become a cliché of the information age that we remember where we were when we learned of certain events, the death of JFK or John Lennon for example. On each occasion there was something so shocking in the … Continue reading →

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Be a brick

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Jamie Jauncey

In this first of a series of occasional posts by guest contributors, my friend and fellow Dark Angel, STUART DELVES, picks up the story of Careless from last week … Last November, having taken a brief from a client in … Continue reading →

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