psychic landscape
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The Migraine Trilogy, Part III: A Paper, A Frog, and A Racket
Rated WP-MA: mature language, childish language, children (real and imaginary) in danger, an offensive (yet cute) image The Paper First time I visited Santa Fe was when I was a struggling grad student in Anthropology, a few years before I began to recover the memories of what happened to me as a child. So, that Continue reading
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A Reluctant Giant, Nameless Little Girl, and What They Did
Rated WP-MA: language, self-esteem issues, potentially fatal car crashes So far as we can recall, we’ve never drawn a stick figure homage to a Brian De Palma film before and are pleased to have found an opportunity to finally do so. In case you don’t recognize which film, it’s The Fury, and we’ll leave you Continue reading
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Me and Our Migraines
We may have mentioned in an earlier post – or maybe it was just in the manuscript of our book? – that a couple of years ago we got rid of the habit we’ve had since puberty of giving ourselves migraines whenever we were planning to do something that threatened to expose us to intolerable Continue reading
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Inner Child Work, Done Wrong – Part 2
I don’t imagine I need to say, “read part 1 first”? I imagine I do need to say “trigger warning: passing (and possibly gratuitous) reference to sexual abuse of a child.” Third aberration: instability Everything I’ve ever encountered about inner children – and there’s been a lot of it – seems to operate on a Continue reading
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Inner Child Work, Done Wrong – Part 1
One ticklish thing for me about writing a book about my personal inner child work – which is now in its fourth decade (the inner child work, that is, not the book writing) – is the felt need to connect what I do with the various “published” theories and techniques. It could be that there Continue reading
About Me
Michael A. Leavy is a neuroqueer author, anarchist, retired educator, dabbler in magic, onetime actor, Tarot reader…
If you haven’t read the introductory blog you might wonder about our use, now and again, of the 1st person plural pronoun. Though there is only one Michael at the keyboard, there are, as you can gather from the content of some of the posts, multiple active occupants in our psyche, so the plural pronoun is often preferred. There are many occasions, though, on which, for any number of reasons, the singular seems more apt, so it appears regularly as well.
The Anarchic* Psyche of Michael A Leavy 