I had been starting my emails with a bold “Happy New Year!” but it was not ringing true. I’ve had to stop today. It felt ironic, or painful, or inappropriate. Here in the UK we …
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Can I wish you a “Happy New Year” this year?
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Pause
Perhaps it is because its the end of the year, a really difficult year, that I find myself even more reflective than usual. And as I was reading an article about the menopause today, I …
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Start the Year Write – wellbeing workshop
If you’d like to do something a little different from your annual New Year’s resolutions list, why not book a place on this workshop. We’ll spend one and a half hours together, experiencing some writing …
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Micro-habits
This month I’ve renewed an old habit that I had let lapse a little lately, starting my working day with a ten minute meditation practice. I have a subscription to one of the many great apps out there …
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How writing helps us to get unstuck
Journaling and expressive writing, alongside counselling, can help us to begin to come unstuck. Finding the right words to express our feelings about what has happened to us … the more we write, the freer we feel.
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Mental health awareness week and the importance of connection
It’s mental heath awareness week this week and this year the Mental Health Foundation is promoting the theme of kindness. Kindness has been such a big part of the community response to the coronavirus pandemic …
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Things you could do if you can’t hold or attend a funeral right now
One of the painful things about experiencing a bereavement right now is that you cannot get together with other people and mourn your loss or honour someone’s life and death in the way you might …
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Can you reach out to someone?
What are your thoughts on this day – the first of May 2020? How are you feeling? Where do you find yourself as you sit reading this post? As I sit writing it, I am very …
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Sowing seeds for the future
Yesterday I walked through the wood behind my house. I’m not even sure what this particular wood is called, it’s tucked on a ridge between rows of suburban streets and you have to know its …
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Women’s writing circle
When we went into lockdown in March this year, I was days away from starting a women’s writing circle in Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol. It was to be a space where women could gather together to talk …
