Posts by David Hurst
Recovery means to me…
Recovery means everything. It is my life since the 22nd January 2002. It means I am living my life. I am alive. It’s why it always has to go at the top. We will lose whatever we put above it anyway. It means I keep my freedom. The photos of me here are 20 years…
Read MoreMy book The Anxiety Conversation: an excerpt on DNA, epigenetics and the family blueprint
W: We’ve got to think about genetics, and epigenetics is looking at how things are passed from one generation to the next. Experts are saying now that there are parts of the cell that will actually rewrite your DNA in your response to life. So how the generations lived before us is going to condition…
Read MoreWhy emotional issues are bound to cause physical problems
In this era, many people seem surprised and shocked that they have physical illnesses and issues while struggling with their emotional and mental health. Our ancestors knew the two were inextricably linked, and yet in the past century that knowledge seems to have been nudged and then shoved aside. So at some time it seems…
Read MoreThe healing power of trees – my article for Psychologies
Trees provide breathable air, timber, fuel, food, shelter, medicine and beauty. Without trees, we could not live. They can help us think better – Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the olive groves around Athens, Buddha found enlightenment beneath a bo tree, and Isaac Newton realised his theory of gravity when an apple fell from…
Read MoreMy book 12 Steps To 1 Hero: the opening pages
How chaos captured in a net never makes order “It was really scary… but then it was beautiful.“ That’s how my ten-year-old son Daniel described the final part of The Neverending Story fantasy film when I asked what I’d missed after falling asleep towards the end. I recalled the earlier line in it said by the old gnome lady Urgl: “It has…
Read MoreThe strange, life-affirming nature of loss
This is an article written after my best friend Tim ended his life. It was published in national newspapers around the English-speaking world. When David Hurst’s soulmate took his own life, his emotions ranged from disbelief to anger, to a numbing sorrow. In a celebratory book, the writer now seeks to honour Tim Martin’s memory.…
Read MoreOpening pages of my book Words To Change Your Life
Introduction This book started when I looked up from where the English word “heal” derived. That was after getting an inkling that it might reveal something quite significant about how mental health is treated today. I just felt that there was something missing from the meaning of how it is used in our modern world.…
Read MoreWhat will recovery give me?
There’s only everything to gain. Recovery is life-transforming – and more often than many people know it is life-saving. Perhaps just in time too. To understand more fully, it’s useful to know something that is behind many emotional disturbances and mental health problems including addictions. That is trauma. Addiction expert Dr Gabor Maté explains how…
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