Getting It Off My Chest

I’ve been doing a lot of journalling these past few days and yesterday I started a new notebook. Theres something really wonderful about starting a new one. All that promise…all those hopes and dreams that will be written down over the coming months. Along with all the worries and concerns of course.

I’m finding it hard to read at the moment…my daily poetry books and classical music book are sitting on my window sill, untouched since the weekend. Self care in the last week has been really hard.

I am a member of Dream Author…a coaching programme for writers by Sophie Hannah and this week she has been sending us daily podcasts. Yesterday Sophie quoted Byron Katie. This quote really hit home.

I cant change whats going on in the world at the moment. There is nothing you or I can do about it. We have to accept it and try to learn from it. Find a silver lining (ha bloody ha!) and learn to live a new way. So i’ve been analysing….a lot lol. I’ve never been scared of change, so i’m trying to look on this whole situation as an opportunity to do things differently, to live differently. I don’t think it will be easy, but what choice do we have?