I hope you have had a week of fulfilment, however that looked for you. This week, our Gathered Gold post included a poem from Walt Whitman, and we discovered that we have a Walt Whitman fan in our group ❤️. Also in our chat we discovered that poetry can come in many forms - even music! and we also welcomed our newest member to Silver Thread. This week, I’ve relocated back to where I call home for now - Da Nang, Vietnam. And even though much has changed, it feels as though I never left. I joined a writing club that meets weekly, and it really fills my heart to spend time with wonderful, clever, like-minded souls. It feels a bit like this group ;) One of our subjects this week was letter writing. I had already been thinking a lot about it recently, and even included it as a prompt in your complimentary chapter, Your Beginning. Letter writing feels like something of a dying art form, but there is something undeniably special about receiving a letter. It just hits differently than a text or an email. Something deeply human. Letters are true life in an envelope - beautiful. So this week, I’m writing a letter home to someone special. I’d love to invite you to write your own letter too. It can be to a family member, a friend, a stranger you once knew, a teacher, a special soul - or even to yourself. Whether you send it or not is entirely up to you. Have a wonderful weekend. Love always, Silver

Today I would love to officially welcome in our newest member @Viktoria Chervenkova. A warm welcome to you and thank you for bringing your beautiful energy to us. Over the past few days I am reminded why I started this group and indeed Lovecore. Living with chronic Illness, can feel lonely and the need for connection and understanding is important. I wanted to create a space that would feel energised, positive, empowered. Not toxic positivity, just something real, something alive, with like minded people who love life, who want to heal from the inside out. I learned that it wasn’t just people living with chronic illness that needed the space, it’s for everyone on a healing journey…burnt out, feeling lost, life changes, healing trauma, loss, tired of loving everyone else except yourself. Lovecore is for everyone - because, everyone should love themselves better. Song of the Open Road - Walt Whitman https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48859/song-of-the-open-road?utm_source=chatgpt.com Today’s poem is just gorgeous! And I feel like it really embraces that feeling of loving life. I love it so much, it made me smile which is why I wanted to share it with you today. I think the meaning behind it, is that, we really don’t need to have it all figured out, we just need to enjoy life / the journey! The adventure! What do you think?

A little end-of-week note from me. Thank you so much for being here this week , for joining, reading, sharing, reflecting, and helping Silver Thread already feel like such a warm and thoughtful space. This week we’ve spoken about honesty, forgiveness, gratitude, appreciation, poetry, and the quiet truths we carry within ourselves. I’ve loved the depth of the reflections here, and the kindness everyone has brought into the conversation. One of the most meaningful parts of the week for me was how naturally the conversation around gratitude deepened into appreciation - noticing life, valuing it, and letting that become something we live. I also loved sharing I Dwell in Possibility by Emily Dickinson. It felt like such a beautiful poem for a new beginning, and for this little space we are creating together. As for me, I’m going into this new week feeling excited. I’ll be finishing the editing for my upcoming Skool course, Anchoring - 21 Days to practice Journalling, continuing to shape Silver Thread here on Skool, and enjoying being back in Danang - reconnecting with friends, writing circles, meditation, and sound baths. My intention this week is to keep building gently, create with joy, and enjoy the return to the things that nourish me. Thank you for being here with me. If you’d like to, I’d love to hear a little about your week too - how it has felt, what has been on your heart, or any intentions you’re carrying into this new one. No pressure at all, only if you feel like sharing 🤍

A little behind the scenes from me today 🤍 This week I’ve been working on a poem for a new poetry collection called Odyssey. The poem is about depression, and looking at that with love and forgiveness. I’ve been thinking a lot about forgiveness, and the more I sit with it, the more I feel that honesty has to come first. Honesty with ourselves about how we really feel. Because without that honesty, I don’t think there can be true forgiveness. For ourselves or for others. Forgiveness is telling the truth, and still meeting that truth with love. That’s where my mind has been this week.