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Hello and welcome to the first newsletter of the year!

As usual, I update you on what has been happening in my life as well as the reflections and explorations I get out from everyday life. Here it goes:

Reflecting on the process of writing a book that is so personal and deals with such intense subjects as childhood sexual abuse and trauma.

How I tend to force and push things some times and the realisation that I needed to ease it all a bit and give myself some space and time.

‘There is no rush, just a continued transition and transformation within myself. Going from being a still flamingo into an action packed cheetah. I’ve just come up with a new metaphor!

Did you see what I did there? A post that I thought would be mostly about beauty and aesthetics, changed into something a little bit deeper.’

The importance of critical thinking in our spiritual and self discovery journeys. How learning to think for ourselves and become our own inner authorities in our lives is the most important gift to ourselves.

In December, I decided to record a video instead of a written newsletter. You can watch the video here.

Movement with this type of awareness opens a door to connecting to your body, to creating a different relationship with it.

Music and movement are a magical combination and I hope you get to explore this for yourself.

You know how google photos or facebook reminds you of what you were doing in previous years by showing you photos you posted or saved back then? The other day, I saw a photo and knew immediately that it was the photo I took when I ended up in hospital back on the 8 December of 2016.

I went to look on instagram to check if my memory was right and I did post this photo there on that date simply saying ‘Room with a view’ and not saying ‘hospital room with a view’. (…)

Last week, I shared a few posts where I talked about writing a book. As I connected deeply into what book is wanting to be born through me, I started understanding, that what is being asked of me as I start to write it, is that I go deeper within myself and share from there.

The idea for this book came from an excited inspired moment this summer. So much so, that I even created a sample and you can download it for free (here). The idea is/was (keeping this open) to create a book that connects to the Inner Child through colouring some of my art. It felt exciting and so right to me, at that time. There was a lot of energy for it and that is how the sample got done so quickly.

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A short post with a poem recorded in the moment of inspiration while I was walking in Hampstead Heath.

A video exploring what it means to me, going deeper in life.

A post featuring a very handsome dog called Rufus and my meanderings about the word commitment.

Another video blog this week! This time to talk about moving the body to music and how I have taken the challenge of moving to a song every day until the end of the year.

In this video I share about the book I am currently writing ‘Colouring with My Inner Child’. How the idea came about and the aim of the book so far.

I also share the benefits of art making for me and I share about the book sample I have created that gives you a short taster of what the ‘big’ book will be about.

I wrote this poem on a night I had too much energy in my body to be able to fall asleep. Ideas kept popping up into my head and I decided to just write them down.

When the morning came, I knew what I had written, but I could not face the message. It meant that I too had to ‘Stand up, be seen’ and I was scared. It meant that I had to show myself on social media and I was scared. I left these words on the email I wrote them in and sent myself on the 31 May and I could not look at them for two months. Until recently, when I was putting together some artwork and words to go with it and this poem seemed just perfect. And now, it is time to share this with you here.