Purposeful Poetry with Jason Nelson: Recent Episodes
Jason Nelson - Jñana Alchemist
Jason is a Royal Navy veteran and former UK and Western Australian Police Officer. Jason uses creative writing through poetry to help explore, and process trauma, and understand his emotions and lived experience with PTSD, Depression and Anxiety.
This episode describes the experience of feeling weighted down living with depression yet being freed by light
A powerful poem about the impact humankind is having on the environment by Keast McKelvey aged only 8 years old. So powerful and honest from an activist clear mature beyond his years. Thanks for sharing Keast
A poem I wrote about stemming the metaphorical mental bleed from my brain caused by living with mental fitness challenges
Written about 12 months ago to help me look back at my growth from suicide attempt to positive psychology. The first in a series of annual reflections
A poem about the tragic global COVID19 pandemic. If only everyone followed the rules so we truly could flatten and even reverse this curve
A poem I wrote while undergoing schema therapy with my psychologist, working on my self-limiting beliefs of Self-Sacrifice, Unrelenting Standards, Defectiveness and Failure
A dedication to my granddaughter Billie (first grandchild) born 12 December 2020. She has stolen my heart ❤️
I wrote this poem as part of my therapy relating to my self loathing, defectiveness and body dysmorphic thoughts. My creative writing often intersects with sessions I have with my psychologist as I find it easier to express my emotions honestly through poetry
This is a poem I wrote after I was discharged from the mental health ward in September 2018 receiving critical intervention as I had attempted to take my life following a long dark episode of my life. The poem explains my journey of entering the hospital and gaining clarity and more positive view on life once more.