Hello and welcome to my first ever newsletter!
I don’t know why I haven’t done this before. I remember a discussion, pre-pandemic, with a spiritual director I was seeing, telling her that my ideal life would be one huge “show and tell”, with me doing all the showing and all the telling. Now, anyone who knows me in real life will know that I am prone to exaggeration, and that this is not entirely accurate. I love hearing other people’s stories and ideas. However, sharing my new discoveries is one of my favourite things to do, so you can expect this newsletter to be full of suggestions for books, podcasts and products, as well as my news and some of my thoughts.
Monday evening saw me dashing across Southampton to my writing group, straight after my online therapy session. This group was started at the beginning of the year by a friend of a friend and is my first experience of being in a writing group. I hadn’t managed to attend April’s session (many of you who know me in real life will kn…