CONGRATULATIONS to our member Lynn whose book, The Upper Hand, comes out today! Feel free to tell us all about it here, lovely! xx

Hello lovely Story Medicine members! I hope your week is off to a great start. I’m currently hunkered down in book-editing mode as the weather turns chilly, but I wanted to pop up and ask: what do you think of the rebranding so far? Are you digging the new purple and gold? I'd love to get your input – after all, you are what makes this community so special! Let me know your honest thoughts in the comments. 😘 Love, Kate 💜

I wasn't planning a rebrand. I was quite happy with how things were. I wasn't even thinking about it when the idea came to me, completely out of the blue. Like an idea for a story, it just arrived. Perhaps it had been brewing in my subconscious all along. STORY MEDICINE. The name came to me crystal clear after our group meeting yesterday. And with it came the colours (purple and gold), the mood, the whole feeling of what this community could be. It was inspired by how our fortnightly meetings make me feel. Because what we're doing here is about more than writing. It's about sharing our lives and our stories. Connecting with one another. Finding common ground in our differences. Supporting the writers behind the writing. There's something deeply healing in all that. Storytelling is as old as humanity itself. Stories have travelled across generations and cultures, carrying our histories, traditions, wisdom and sense of belonging. And when we come together to share where we've come from and where we are now, we're participating in something much bigger than the act of writing alone. Our conversation on Wednesday, sharing our different festivities, traditions, lineages and heritage, from Thanksgiving to Guy Fawkes, from Nyepi to Durga Puja, planted the seed for this idea. 🌱 And that's what STORY MEDICINE is all about. As a Flow Certified Coach, I'll always bring an understanding of flow, momentum, goals and the satisfaction of getting things done. But I want this community to be about more than productivity. Sometimes we find our flow and the words pour out. Sometimes we need a little encouragement, a friendly face, a space to talk, or simply the permission to be exactly where we are. I wonder whether Writer's Flow Pod might unintentionally suggest that we always need to be in a state of flow, making progress and getting things done. Of course, those things have their place! But I see this community as something more nurturing, more spacious and more human.

Join us for Writers' Flow Pod tomorrow! Can't wait to hear what you've all been up to. We're introducing exercises, goals and forfeits for fun. I'll tell you about it in tomorrow's video call, and I look forward to hearing your feedback then. Until tomorrow! Love Kate x

Hello lovely writers! ✨ Hope you’re all doing well! Just a little reminder that our next Writer’s Flow Pod is tomorrow at 7pm GMT, where I’ll be introducing our new *5-Minute Writer Rituals.* These will be fun, mostly meditative, gentle coaching exercises that we’ll do together to ground ourselves in the space, connect with ourselves, each other and our creativity. ✨ They won’t require much from you at all, other than simply showing up and being present. And, of course, we’ll have our usual topic of the day to dive into should we need one. 💫 I’m really looking forward to seeing you tomorrow! Love Kate x