Silky Burnside

Coach

Beauty

Trusting my true beliefs

I feel like I have found my match made in heaven. When I look at her smiling face I just feel like “this person makes sense to me” and everything seems to just click.  The more I get to know her the more beautiful she gets.  But my mother thinks I am a...

Message from an angel

Ah my childhood street, it still feels like home even in the caffeinated early morning darkness, many years later. I've been talking to a young woman, and my achy heart feels like it's gushing with emotion, and my extremities are in a cold sweat. In the past this...

When unopenable doors fall open

The loving afterglow of mindfulness coursing through my nervous system illuminated the early morning silence. I was now visualising myself sitting on a couch together with Jesus in heaven, watching my childhood on television. Contemplating the facial expression of God...

I create beauty

I create beauty. But keep your wits about you. I also destroy.

Did you ever feel that you couldn’t trust yourself? 

“Ritalin” I told the chemist.  From Ireland, she was beautiful.  But beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 8 coffees and the maximum dose of Ritalin, but at least I felt like I could control my anxiety. That’s new.  I haven’t always felt this way. In...