The Pathway To Dreams
Dreams are often about identity, because we're figuring out who we are and what we need, and the beliefs and perspectives we hold,” says...
The Pair Of Cheap White Sunglasses
The woman who knocked at my door wore a pair of cheap white sunglasses. She asked for something to eat. Then another woman came,...
The Chinese Connection
Priority number one is not the Ukraine-Russia war or the upheavalment (see genocide) in Gaza; however, there is a global disintegration of family life...
Inside The Bethelsdorp Cave, I Am The Guest
This is a meditation on my writing life and routine. It follows. It's also a prayer. I don't believe I belong to anything. To...
The Mechanics Of The Mind
Talking to an adult survivor of child abuse is very challenging.
That is, if they are still alive.
The child abuse survivor is at risk of...
Don’t leave the sermon in the parking lot
In the mental hospital, we were given hard-boiled eggs without salt. I came to see my time in isolation, and the forgoing of salt,...
Did Bobby Vinton ever sing about the perfect father and daughter relationship?
Every single day, my mother and I played a cat-and-mouse game of who could love and adore my father more than the previous day.
Was...
Diagnosis, psychosis and hospital life in the modern-day mental hospital
Once upon a time, I landed in a mental hospital after having a nervous breakdown in my early twenties when I lived in Johannesburg,...
On Stigma
One of the things that I wish to address is the alienation, rejection, social isolation and the longing to belong that the mental patient...
The Art Lexcia Podcast with Wesley Pepper
Critically acclaimed writer and award-winning poet, Abigail George sits down with visual artist and entrepreneur Wesley Pepper, and talks about mental health awareness and...