A place to remind ourselves what it means to be human, and to give ourselves permission to feel.
Jacky has the therapist’s laser-eye, piercing through the bullshit to the heart of the matter, but she also has the tenderness to make a reader feel safe, as if they are in the presence of a dear friend.
Carolyn Gillespie, author.
Somewhere along the way I think we have forgotten what it’s like to be fully human! The feelings, the struggles; we all have our human tricky things, but when we are having difficult moments we can forget that and it can feel incredibly lonely and isolating.
Have you had difficult times in your life when you have felt incredibly alone? I imagine you have, because you’re human. It is only through truly getting familiar with this sense of isolation that we can realise that we belong, because we all experience it. That is the commonality amongst us all.
Poetry always scared me as a kid, but it is what I have turned to time and again to make sense of being human and a little less lonely. I’ve been writing poetry since I was 11 and I’ve been published in various anthologies. I also wrote and performed my own one woman sell out show called ‘Light in Life’s Shadows’. I’m also an addiction psychologist and have been in that field for the last 13 years.
Whilst I have the heart of a poet I have the curious mind of a psychologist.
I’m inviting you to join me as I make sense of our sensitivities and maybe along the way even put some fun in the dysfunctional.
The Therapeutic Poet is my offering of essays, poems and writing prompts. Hi. My name is by Jacky Power. I’m an addiction specialist and poet.
What can you expect?
If you are a free subscriber then you will receive a monthly newsletter from me. This will be a round of up of what I’ve been up to, a dive into one particular subject and, more likely than not, a poem.
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Jacky Power has a big heart and a huge felt sense of the human spirit. Her observation of humanity is sharp and tender at the same time. And underlying everything is a therapist’s knowledge of human nature: she actually understands as well as observes.
Judy Apps, TEDx speaker and author
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