Permission to disappear.

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” Anne Lamott

By the time you read this, I will hopefully be somewhere in Scotland looking at a mountain, the sea or quite possibly rain through a window, because this week I am switching off properly.

So there will be no live Writing Hours this week, but the space is still yours if you want it.

You can turn up at 9am, make your tea, open your notebook and write quietly for an hour, knowing that other people in the Heart Leap world may be doing exactly the same thing. You can write for ten minutes, stare out of the window for fifty, or decide that this week you need to do absolutely nothing at all.

That counts too.

I think sometimes we become so used to tending everything that we forget we are allowed to put things down for a while. The inbox, the project, the plans, the people who might possibly need us, even the creative work we love.

Nothing terrible will happen if we leave it alone for a few days.

Perhaps some things might even be better for it.

Writing prompt:

What could you stop tending for a few days, and what might become possible in the space it leaves behind?

NEWS! I will be facilitating The Artist’s Way from Thursday 3rd September every Thursday for 12 weeks at 7pm.

Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way is the legendary 12-week creative reset that has helped millions of people reconnect with the part of themselves they thought they’d lost. And it has some rather famous fans: Reese Witherspoon, Elizabeth Gilbert and Tim Ferriss are among the creatives said to have been inspired by it.

But you absolutely don’t have to think of yourself as “an artist” to do it. This is about curiosity, confidence and giving yourself permission to make things, dream bigger and listen to what you actually want. Through daily Morning Pages, weekly Artist Dates and a series of brilliantly revealing exercises, we’ll spend 12 weeks firing up not just our creativity, but our lives.

I’ll be facilitating the course every Thursday at 7pm. Before we begin, you’ll need to buy your own copy of The Artist’s Way and to have read the introduction and Chapter One.

I’ve done this course before and I don’t use the words “life-changing” lightly. But this one really can be.

Writing hours will also recommence on Monday 24th August.