A little Gentle Return for the turning of the year. We are officially halfway through 2026 which is such a beautiful time to pause with your journal and ask: Where am I now? What has changed? What is asking for my attention? What do I want the next six months to feel like? This is not a check-in to measure yourself harshly or to take stock of how far you didn't get to. It is a place to take a breath and notice. Maybe you are exactly where you hoped you would be. Maybe you are somewhere completely different. Life has got a funny way of through obstacles in our paths and sending us on a tanjant sometimes! or maybe something new came into your life. As a little summer solstice gift, here are three prompts for your page. 3 Solstice Prompts 1. What has this first half of the year taught me about myself? 2. What am I ready to thank, release, or complete? 3. What part of me is asking for more light? Come back to one of these today, or keep them for a quiet moment this week. Your page is allowed to meet you exactly where you are.

As we close this week, we are carrying the Empowering thread forward. We have been writing with: Trusting Your Own Voice And next week, we move into: Choosing What Feels True That feels like the natural next step. Because once you begin to hear your voice again, the next question becomes: What do I choose from here? What feels true now?What feels honest?What feels aligned?What feels like mine? Here are three prompts that you might like to bring intentions into your writing for the next six months. 1. What do I want to feel more of in the next six months? 2. What choice would honour the person I am becoming? 3. What is one true thing I can begin with this week? Also our next Write With Me Co Journaling session is on Tuesday at 11am UK time. I'd be delighted if you could join me, I will send Prompts in advance or if you prefer you can write with your own words, there will also be space to write together with our Reflections Prompts.

As this week closes, I want to start by saying how truly wonderful it has been to see our little Write Space community growing. To our new members, welcome. I’m so glad you’re here. There is absolutely no pressure to comment, share, or join in before you feel ready. Sometimes it’s enough just to read along, take what you need, and settle into the space at your own pace. I hope the posts are meeting you where you are. This week, we’ve been thinking about becoming the safe space we needed. And as we reach the end of the week, I’d love to invite you to pause and think about what that really means for you. What would it feel like to be a safe place for yourself? What would that space look like? What would it say to you? You might like to write a letter to yourself from the perspective of that safe space within you. Or you might describe the space itself - the colours, the feeling, the warmth, the stillness, the comfort, the strength. You could also write to yourself as though you were writing to a dear friend or loved one, offering them the safety, reassurance, and kindness they needed most. This week, we also explored our Wordcore word, hygge. A word often used to describe the warmth and comfort of a home, but maybe this week we can think of it slightly differently. Maybe hygge can also describe the home within ourselves. The place that says, “You are safe here.” We also looked at the beautiful poem Love After Love by Derek Walcott, which speaks so powerfully about returning to what was already there. That part of you that has been with you all along. The part that knows you.The part that loves you.The part that has never truly left. Sometimes, we are not trying to become someone new. Sometimes, we are simply recognising ourselves again. And sometimes, we can describe who we are, or what we need, with just one simple word. I hope this week has helped you get to know your own safe space a little more. Personally, I feel empowered knowing that the safe space I’ve been looking for can also begin within me.

Hello? Did anyone see May? Was it quick for you too? This week, the theme resonated: Plenty in the Everyday. And there certainly was plenty. I’d like to extend a warm Write Space welcome to our new members. @Ally Natasha @Ann Davies @Ann Mackenzie @GabriELe Wilms @Julie Langdon @Karen Michelle Webb Welcome to our growing community. Please feel free to join in whenever you’re ready. A few highlights for me were celebrating a friend’s birthday in style at a 5-star resort, and launching my first in-person event, Write Space Danang. For all of these things, I am truly grateful. Today I am reminded, too, that life is precious. Loss comes with a great sadness, and always will, but also with a reminder to live for the highlights, be grateful for them, and love each and every second of them. Next week we are moving on to our next theme, da da daaaaaa! - Empowerment. I love this theme already and I have been busy putting everything together for us! Enjoy your weekends and I'll see you all on the page, love always, Silver

This week we stayed with the theme Small Joys, Big Medicine and truthfully, it has been one of those weeks where I have really felt that. Behind the scenes, I’ve been making a few lovely updates to the community. The journal links are now in place in the Classroom under Journals, and I’ve also updated my About page. I held my very first Silver Circle this week too, which I thoroughly enjoyed. That replay will be added to the Classroom soon as a free archive for Kindling members. ⭐ I’ve also been enjoying time in other communities this week. I particularly loved the masterclass from @themoneygoddess - Money in Your Stars. I highly recommend having a look if you haven’t already. It was fascinating on so many levels, including some I hadn’t even considered before. ⭐ I’ve also been reading Miracles Are Normal, now out in paperback, co-written by Lauren Kinghorn @miraclesarenormal. It’s such a lovely pick-me-up, and it felt beautifully aligned with this week’s theme. A reminder that often the smallest things carry the deepest medicine. As we move into next week, our new theme is Gratitude in Ordinary Moments. That feels especially meaningful to me right now, because today I realised that many of my ordinary moments are not ordinary at all. We work so hard to shape the life we live, and this morning I felt such a strong shift into the present. Not pulled back by the weight of the past, and not reaching ahead for answers from the future - just here. Safe. Real. Present. It felt deeply freeing. So that is the intention I’m carrying into the week ahead- to be present in the moments that make up my life, and to meet them with gratitude.