How do you rest and reflect?
Welcome to our December Newsletter. As we enter the final month of this year, I am noticing the overwhelming need of my clients, friends and communities to slow down and to restore. So I hope that if you can, you are making time for yourself. It can be incredibly healing to step away from a busy daily schedule, make time to sit and think. Reflecting on what this year means to us. How unveiling is the current reality. How we have embraced the benefits of technology and online connection in pandemic times. And how we finally seem to be moving away from our individualising, isolated perspectives towards more collective wellbeing for the future of our kind and our planet. That is what I see in my networks. How was this year for you and your community?
This month I am focusing my work and intention on solidifying my anti-racist practice. In fact, at the end of this week, I will be finishing the first UK anti-racist therapist training and I am openly pledging to work towards a more equal and equitable work here at Voxel Hub. I hope you can join me in this commitment to learning, growing and inspiring change.
As we approach the end of 2021, I would also like to wish you all a soft and peaceful holidays season, however, you choose to mark this season.
I wish you a soft and kind December!
My favourite topic this month
This month my recommendations are my personal inspirations of life stories that come from a place of systemic othering, trauma, but also empowerment and incredible inspiration:
That day she’ll proclaim her chronicles by Muneera Pilgrim
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke
Will by Will Smith
My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Jacinda Ardern: A New Kind of Leader by Madeleine Chapman
The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain by Damian Le Bas
If you have a recommendation on this topic, please do let me know!
Resources
Today I would like to introduce you to the extended range of reflective journeys supported by the work of Julia Cameron:
The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
The Listening Path: The Creative Art of Attention
Seeking Wisdom: A Spiritual Path to Creative Connection
The Artist’s Way for Parents: Raising Creative Children
The Artist’s Way for Retirement: It’s Never Too Late to Discover Creativity and Meaning
The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart
Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
Walking In This World: The Practical Art of Creativity
I hope the above books are helpful.
Thank you for reading our Newsletter. Talk to us online, check out our blog and let us know what else you would like to see here in the upcoming months.
Stay safe. Stay well. Stay connected.
Sylwia
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