New Year Workshops... and free couples counselling!

Hello, hello.

It’s been ages… I’m sorry. I vanished into another book shaped hole.

How are you? Any news? Any loves? Travels? Disasters?

Good news this end - if anyone fancies a scribble over the festive period, I’ve scheduled two New Year sessions. I’ve missed them and you and it would be lovely to see anyone who is free to join.

Goodbye 2022! will be on 31st December at 1-3pm UK time. We will look back at 2022 and I’ll set some writing prompts to help us make peace with the year that’s been. We’ll celebrate the highs and take the learnings from the challenging parts.

Then on Monday 1st January 2023 1-3pm there will be a Hello 2023! session, in which we welcome in the coming year. I’ll set some writing prompts that help us think about what we’d like from the year ahead.

As ever there is no reading out loud. We just come together, I set some things for us to write about and we do it in the privacy of our own homes. There is opportunity to chat and we never have to. You can sit silent as a mouse with your camera off if this is what makes you feel good.

This is not a session for writers its a session for humans - all welcome. Ideally you write with pen and paper (holding a pen and physically writing is supposed to help us access emotions more easily than typing) but if you want to tap away on a phone or laptop that’s good too. Whatever works for you.

There is a pay what you can ticket option - so please don’t let money be the reason you don’t come.

I will take some questions from the brilliant Goodbye 2022, Hello 2023 journal. Selina Barker creates these every year and I fill them out every year. It’s a book that you can keep and you fill it out and keep it. I think it’s a great thing to have.

AND!
I've been asked to write a short column for a UK newspaper called Couples Therapy.

Each week I’ll put someone’s relationship issue to a therapist who will then give their advice. SO! Does anyone have any relationship issues they need tackling? If so please send me an email. And if it’s easier for you to talk it through let me know and we can arrange a chat or a voice note situation.

You will never be named - it’s completely anonymous - so treat it as free couples counselling/therapy.

I think it’s quite funny - is it ironic? I still don’t use that word correctly - that the one of the most single people on the planet is writing a couples column!!

But I guess I’ll learn a lot for when / if it ever happens…

Love and love and love.

Mx