#21 Press Pause: Reading Week

Your weekly creative 'retreat'- which this week is a mini one.

Hello all

This is a message from past Clare giving future Clare a special permission slip.

It’s OK to take a break.

I’m on a creative retreat/adventure myself this week, doing some book research and catching up with some dear friends.

None of us are creativity or ‘content’ making machines. (I hate even thinking of writing as ‘content’; but the consumerist, linear narrative of productivity and drive creeps in to even to our sacred spaces: our words, creativity, dreams). However, we can outwit! With our humanity, humility, our needs for rest, our failures, our vulnerabilities, our ability to pause, listen, reflect and be.

Here’s to being creative beings not creative doings.

So, actually, I do have a mini ‘retreat’ for you, by way of a prompt.

‘I can give myself a break by…’

Maybe it is an actual break: a holiday, a bath, an early bedtime!

Or maybe it is a mental break, giving yourself permission to pause the internal monologue, which for so many of us I know goes something like this: I am not doing enough/ being enough/ creative enough, or just generally, enough. Gosh, it’s exhausting. Time to give ourselves a break.

In college, one of my favourite weeks was ‘reading week’, which was essentialy an intellectually coded way of saying ‘here’s some time to catch up. Sleep if you must’.

So, if you’d like your own Wild Edge Reading week here are a few different kind of past posts you may have missed, but might enjoy. I am imaging for you reading or listening somewhere warm and cozy, with something delicious to eat or drink. A journal by your side is always handy too.

I’ll be back soon!

Clare x

Fantasy Box of Book Gifts

In a field by the oaks near a church on the hill

Spring Equinox: Practices for Strength & Equanimity

PS: Coming up on The Wild Edge

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Owl Hours: Creative Practice.

These are hours to gather together, with intention, to work on your own creative projects.

8-9pm Irish/UK Time (Please note that we are in Summer Daylight Saving hours now. You can check your time zone conversion here).

April Dates: Thursday 24th

May Dates: Thursday 8th, Thursday 15th, Tuesday 20th, Thursday 29th

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Seasonal Salon: Bealtaine

Friday 2 May, 7-8.30pm Irish/UK time.

Following the rhythm of the Celtic Seasons, the Bealtaine Salon will combine writing, reflection, poetry and seasonal ritual.

Tickets are included in ‘Gold Membership’ of The Wild Edge. Or can be purchased here.

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Writing Sanctuary

This is an hour of guided journalling and reflection. Time to be, write, savour your words and wisdom.

Sunday 11th May. 6-7pm Irish Time.

(Ticket included in Wild Edge paid membership).