Monday
Managed to pop into the Monday brew club at the local pub for the first time in a few weeks. Always a pleasure to catch up with them. It’s amazing to see this little group start to widen their e
New Northern Weave
On Friday I was in the company of a glorious group of women – the New Northern Weave. Every time I’m with them I go away feeling wiser, more knowledgeable and nourished. And goodness we need n
The Common Good
I’ve been mulling over something that happened the other day and a conversation that I had with another community member a while ago. We were at Wellgood socials and a community member who holds a p
Community Healing
Overnight I’ve been wondering about how yesterday’s post might be received by readers. I wondered if readers might ask, ‘surely they signposted the woman who shared her long history of traum
Who Looks After You?
Yesterday a member of the community chose to share their life story. One filled with trauma and abuse. At the end, the person said to me, ‘who looks after you?’ And it made my heart open and also
Joyful Days
Today at WellGood Social was just absolutely amazing for so many different reasons. Watching the long time ago retired and wise youth worker coach the younger women. Seeing the Councillors join in and
Class
Today we had a lovely session at Make it Mine. Therapeutic time with clay in the company of women. A new to us local councillor came to see us. Sheila, she’s standing this year. I think she’ll be
Rest is Resistance
A week has gone by since I last put pen to paper. I’ve been resting. Learning that rest is resistance, and practising being with the survivor’s guilt that appears whenever I do take a break. H
Parks and people
Well Good Socials today, a new face and a few familiar ones. At one point, there was so much chatter it was really quite loud. After the coffee morning, I caught up with some of our newest community c
Women
Our weekly Make it Mine session this morning, and I ponder the fact that no one may turn up today as we had to cancel last week’s session. Questions around promoting the space better fill my min