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It’s enough to drive a lazy-ish writer back to the keyboard

17 February 2025

Golly, it’s been a long while since I was writing this kind of thing for an audience beyond myself. I journal infrequently as a means to eject the wonderings and…

Life Mental health Parenting The Westsider Writing

It’s ok me, I got this

9 August 2023

The single most powerful and liberating psychological practice I have ever done is reintroduce myself to my inner child, and show him who I am now. Yes, it sounds wanky…

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Honey, I’m home! (reconnecting with myself)

5 July 2023

It’s been almost two years since I last wrote a column, and loads of cool and some difficult stuff has happened. I’m excited to be writing again and to share…

Life Mental health The Westsider Writing

“I have hope now”: interviewing Sarah Lungu

2 August 2021

Sarah Lungu shares her mental health struggles with JC Clapham Sitting down to a conversation with Sarah Lungu, one gets a sense she knows her delicacies very well, yet also…

Life Mental health The Westsider Writing

Lonely, I’m Mr Lonely

2 August 2021

I’ve necessarily pushed people away over the past five years. Self-preservation was my goal, and the sense of being a broken burden that a major depressive feels only compounded that.…

Life Parenting The Westsider Writing

Where was the bubble wrap for my head?

2 May 2021

Moving house recently was not only a massively tiring task, it was also a hugely emotional thing for me, too. A couple of months ago I moved to a new…

Featured Life Mental health Parenting The Westsider Writing

A love letter to inner-west Melbourne

10 February 2021

This will be my final column as a full-time resident of the inner west. I’m moving further out west, beyond the fringes of Melbourne, to be nearer where my kids…

Life Mental health Writing

That’s 2020 COVID off

2 December 2020

As the diary maker said to the printer, it’s been a year. And in many ways, 2020 has been as disappointing as that pun. But in others, it’s been a…

Featured Life The Westsider Writing

Ozzy the rescuing rescue dog

10 September 2020

Reading the profile of Ozzy the Australian Bulldog on the Pet Rescue website in March 2018 felt like someone had described me, but pretended I was a dog: “Ozzy likes…

Life Mental health Parenting The Westsider Writing

Dear parents, please don’t choose to die…

10 August 2020

*** Content warning: Suicidal themes *** Dear dad or mum to a child or children, Firstly, let me declare I’m one of you. I have children of my own and…

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