hey lurkers

guess what? I got bored so I asked if I could help out again with the “National Paranoia Network”.

I’ve had a long history with mental health and have been living with severe or incapacitating moments for many years.

if you want to find out how I don’t act up or out, learn something new or just feel the reassurance of my words on a page I suggest you go over to

Nationalparanoianetwork.org and register for their free newsletter as I am doing some charity and donating my time and words.

this is for you if you’ve ever had a diagnosis of paranoid thoughts, intrusive thoughts, delusions, psychosis or any psychotic disorder (eg schizophrenia, bipolar, disassociative disorder) or even if you are living with a relative or friend going through the same.

I maintain what I learned during my personal research over a decade ago, which is that psychosis occurs when you are completely flooded with trauma and stress.

while yoga, meditation and somatic therapies are not a cure, this is an injury and not a life sentence and you can strengthen your own self enough that you avoid acting in a way that creates more and more difficulty.

love you guys. You know, we all each live our own lives in our own minds, and sometimes we meet in the middle.

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if you’ve been lurking here you’ll know that I am not a “grind girlie”.

In my 20s I still just about had the drive to push and push and push and had I the skills and knowledge I do now, my marketing and work ethic would be very different.

I would go to events, network and trade shows and yoga shows and I would be all about connecting.

if you are looking for a teacher who lives a fast paced life I am not that girl. I am slow girlie, I have been chronically ill and though I have a deep desire to help everyone my body and mind won’t permit me to do the leg work. So it’s about working smarter, not harder.

over the next week you’ll see a few books by moi crop up on Amazon. They are self-published books perfect if you love a quiet moment with a coffee or matcha, if you’re always off on a trip or catch yourself with some small free time and wish you could spend it in an intentional and healthy way.

these puzzle books, which have been sort of floating and published and unpublished are now finalised and I’m really happy with them. One of them is designed for chronic or acute insomniacs, to help self soothe in anxiety spirals in the darkest nights. The other is specifically for people with an intermediate to advanced knowledge in yoga, movement therapy or somatic therapy.

these are the lowest cost options to work with me, and come to I think £12 each in the UK. If they do well, I will continue to write endlessly.

what are they?

these have brain teasers and puzzles with micro-meditation practices and mindfulness prompts. They also have some beautiful illustrations to colour in (not mine unfortunately but in the future I will definitely work on that!)