Think like a child this Xmas

Part of my making ‘mantra’. Christmas Wreaths, it’s the best meditation.

Eeep it’s now December and the weeks/days leading up to Chrissie are shrinking. I’ve been heavily influenced by Beth Kempton’s Calm Christmas mantra and ideas this year - and am just trying to make time for all the crafting, gifting, thankfulness etc and not let the steamtrain that is the end of the year take over all the excitement. I hope you can find a bit of this too in the weeks ahead - and ‘think like a child this Xmas’. Take it slow this morning, read this, think about some nice Decembery things to do and do something fun and childlike! Happy Sunday to you. xx

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Podcast playlist

Lucy’s button shop. Heaven. Like Faire Magazine but in a podcast.

Maybe it’s Menopause with Dr Louise Newson. The Imperfects. The is the best description of Menopause that I have heard to date.

What psychosis feels like: The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness. All in the Mind.

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Lay your eyes on these Instagram accounts

@hotdudesreading || @shaneconnolleyandco || @rosesonnanima

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Via @kennedythelabel on Instagram

This pile of things to read

Could not get over the divine-ness, in the truest sense of the word, of this collaboration between Kennedy, The Label and Life Charity Focus in Uganda.

Have you ever seen more beautiful Xmas crackers?

Some daily/life routine suggestions from a 43 year old via Law of Attraction Live.

Amazeballs. This is funny. The Most Irritating Words as Voted by Britons.

Lovely to see Mea Campbell of The Letterbox Project in Primer recently.

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New newsletters

Emma Gannon is pure celebrity on Substack - and when you read pieces like this you can see why. It’s about burnout and change. And these are two things that have happened with me professionally over the last year.

A year of change

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