The Psychlotherapist

Welcome to Mark Brayne’s blog – which looks forward to reporting a 62-year-old’s four-month cycling odyssey from Cirencester to Moscow (3000 miles) and then Beijing to Hanoi (2000 or so further miles) from Easter to August 2012.

There’s an opportunity to sponsor me, raising money for EMDR’s UK Humanitarian Assistance Programme (HAP UK),  for the Rory Peck Trust supporting freelance journalists in conflict zones worldwide, and for the chamber choir in which I sing in the Cotswolds, Cantores.

I’ll be musing as I go along about my Passions with a silent P – Psychling, Psychotherapy and Psinging – but also about questions around climate change and where we are headed as a species. Rather less amusing, but an issue about which I am equally passionate.

So, browse around, sign up, follow, enjoy….

There are archives here going back to 2008 covering my 4000-mile return trip to Budapest in that year, and subsequent musings about climate change, canal boating and the health/wellbeing issues of an ageing babyboomer.

Below, first a map of my planned route to Moscow, then from Beijing to Hanoi (not that I’ll make it all the way in the time I have, but worth a try…)

Briefly to the background, I was a hack (journalist for Reuters and BBC for 30 years), I’m now a shrink (psychotherapist specialising in trauma – see www.braynework.com). So perhaps a Shrack. Or even better, given the psychling/cycling, a psychlotherapist. Terrible pun, but Braynework isn’t much better.

Cirencester-Moscow

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Beijing-Hanoi

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