The Dis-course Archive

Issue XXV: Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve

Issue XXV: Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve

A last will and testament of thoughts and odd comforts - Because whilst I haven’t actually published anything in this time, I have been writing to you and thinking of you often.

Issue XXIV: Perspective

Issue XXIV: Perspective

It is an entirely human response to feel guilt for the comparatively miniscule problems of our lives when the rights to safety, shelter, warmth, justice are taken away from others in front of our e...

Issue XXIII: Here & There

Issue XXIII: Here & There

It is the difficult decisions that define who we are. We are allowed to mourn the consequences of good choices.

Issue XXII: Anxiety & Boundaries

Issue XXII: Anxiety & Boundaries

Getting to know the intricacies of your own mental health and the malfunctions you may face grants you insight and instincts that don’t come naturally.

Issue XXI: Coming Back

Issue XXI: Coming Back

Relationships end, jobs are quit, chapters of life over; rapidly fading in the rear view mirror as memories shrink into obscurity. We find ourselves positioned in a reality that does not match up w...

Issue XX: Rage

Issue XX: Rage

One cannot claim oblivion as an affordance of acquittal. However, harbouring unacknowledged rage can perpetuate our internally or externally destructive patterns and it is nobody’s responsibility b...

Issue XIX: Gratitude

Issue XIX: Gratitude

We tend to think that in order to be happy we have to have the big things. Yet when I am listing things that I am grateful for I often find myself looking at the smaller stuff. My plants, my kettle...

Issue XVIII: Conviction & Paul Hughes

Issue XVIII: Conviction & Paul Hughes

I borrowed the confidence of others until I could find my own. But like with most things borrowed, this confidence was not for me to keep. So I moved on to different hair and clothes but hung on to...

Issue XVII: Resilience

Issue XVII: Resilience

Life will continue to come at you no matter what you do. The only thing you can do is to develop your resilience and to practise adaptability for the times life decides to throw you a particularly ...

Issue XVI: Power

Issue XVI: Power

In hindsight, one theme seems to extend like a red thread, frantically jumping from topic to topic, keeping up with our caffeinated dialogue. Power.

Issue XV: Nostalgia

Issue XV: Nostalgia

We feel the preemption of nostalgia for the present when the present is good. “This too shall pass” they say. Your joy as well as your sorrow. The acknowledgement that even the best of times, even ...

Issue XIV: Communities

Issue XIV: Communities

The proverb goes “show me your friends and I will tell you who you are ''. I would like to take it a step further and say “show me the friends you choose and I will tell you who you will become”. B...