wellbeing – Rachel Hawkins-Crockford

Category: wellbeing

A conversation in the Dwelling Place of the Soul

Posted by Rachel Hawkins-Crockford on November 8, 2024November 8, 2024

This Autumn I’ve embarked on training as an ecotherapist with Natural Academy, having completed the Foundation Year in the Summer. It’s an applied ecopsychology model and deeply resonates with the place I find myself in …

Autumn, connection, Counselling, ecopsychology, ecotherapy, nature, Poetry, wellbeing

Winter: connecting with the season

Posted by Rachel Hawkins-Crockford on December 29, 2023

Winter is the season that invites us, if we pay attention to it's call, to rest, reflect and renew ourselves.

connection, nature, self-care, wellbeing, winter, Writing for Wellbeing

Saying yes to you: journaling prompts

Posted by Rachel Hawkins-Crockford on September 23, 2022

Saying ‘No’ to others is saying ‘Yes’ to yourself. Does this statement resonate for you? If it does, it might be a helpful affirmation to hold in mind when you are tempted to do something …

Counselling, Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, Focus, self-care, wellbeing, Writing for Wellbeing

Are you struggling following a bereavement?

Posted by Rachel Hawkins-Crockford on February 1, 2021

You might find it helpful to know that grieving is not just feeling sad. A lot can happen to you physically as well as mentally when someone dies, a relationship ends, you lose your job …

bereavement, connection, Counselling, grief and loss, self-care, wellbeing

Places still available on women’s writing circles

Posted by Rachel Hawkins-Crockford on January 13, 2021

I still have some spaces left in both the Friday and Thursday Women’s Writing Circles. A fortnightly writing for wellbeing group for women – six sessions of expressive and creative writing in connection with other …

connection, Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, mental health awareness, Poetry, wellbeing, womens circle, workshops, Writing for Wellbeing

Can I wish you a “Happy New Year” this year?

Posted by Rachel Hawkins-Crockford on January 5, 2021

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 …

connection, Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, grief and loss, mental health awareness, nature, self-care, wellbeing, Writing for Wellbeing

Start the Year Write – wellbeing workshop

Posted by Rachel Hawkins-Crockford on December 7, 2020December 1, 2020

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 …

connection, Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, Focus, self-care, wellbeing, workshops, Writing for Wellbeing

Keeping a dream journal

Posted by Rachel Hawkins-Crockford on October 15, 2020October 6, 2020

You are the best interpreter of your own dreams. While there may be certain symbols, images or events that have a wider cultural relevance, it is only you who know and understand their personal meaning to …

Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, Dreams, wellbeing, workshops, Writing for Wellbeing

some word bones for National Poetry Day

Posted by Rachel Hawkins-Crockford on October 1, 2020

We have been walking each day in the woods near where we live. We feel the season changing and each day we quietly observe the differences in the woods and the sky. We talk of …

Autumn, Bristol, connection, Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, nature, Poetry, wellbeing, Writing for Wellbeing

creation with song

Posted by Rachel Hawkins-Crockford on September 1, 2020August 19, 2020

I recently took part in a writing exercise devised by a friend that I loved so much I’m sharing the results here (like myself, Vicky’s a writing for wellbeing enthusiast and her facebook page is …

connection, Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, haiku, Poetry, wellbeing, Writing for Wellbeing