“Loose Peaces Part 1”

By Jo Bell Hunt

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Content notes: energy-limiting illness, disability, recovery discourses, mental health, neurodivergence, mindfulness, Buddhism, atheism, politics, global and historical injustice, body image, eating disorders.

Written between April 2025 and July 2026, during a time of change, collapse, and healing. Long-undiagnosed conditions led into both increased needs and disability, and increased access to support, understanding, accommodation, and relief. I’m grateful to many people and circumstances for the second half of that, and particularly S. for so much help and solidarity, O. for the very best cheerleading and collaborative guidance, A. for holding up the sky of a lot of my starting points, and M.V. for being a wise first teacher. My personal therapy has been finding a weird semi-conscious poetic voice, and I hope others get something out of these examples. If you’d like to, you can find me as @jo_bell_h on Instagram, or Jo Hunt (Canberra) on FB.