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Writing for Wellbeing
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Write your way to a more positive outlook on life! Guided writing activities to foster personal growth, increased mindfulness, and emotional wellbeing. Online anywhere, and in-person in North East England. writingforwellbeing.co.uk
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#ThursdayThoughts
#ThursdayMotivation
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A call to women writers: Write! Write as though the ghosts of all the women in history who were not allowed to write are standing over you, wondering what a laptop is and why you're in your pyjamas at 3pm.
January 14, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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Journalling for a New Year
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Writing workshop
New year, new writing! Journalling to find your personal wisdom and explore paths to feeling good through creative writing. Choose either Sun 18 Jan OR Sun 1 Feb, 2-4pm (UK time). Only £25. Booking info: www.writingforwellbeing.co.uk/therapy-and-...
Hand writing in notebook
January 14, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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‘Why should we use all our creative power? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate.’
— Brenda Ueland
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#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity
Brenda Ueland
January 14, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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Another in my series of images from medieval manuscripts
#SomethingBeautiful #MedievalSky
Historiated initial E with angels blowing trumpets and worshippers raising hands. V&A 803-1894
January 14, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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‘A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.’
— John Milton
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#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #books #reading
Curving bookshelves filled with antique books
January 14, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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Journalling for a New Year
Online
Writing workshop
New year, new writing! Journalling to find your personal wisdom and explore paths to feeling good through creative writing. Choose either Sun 18 Jan OR Sun 1 Feb, 2-4pm (UK time). Only £25. Booking info: www.writingforwellbeing.co.uk/therapy-and-...
'You may not be a Picasso or a Mozart but you don't have to be. Just create to create. Create to remind yourself you're still alive. Make stuff to inspire others to make something too. Create to learn a bit more about yourself.' (Frederick Terral)
January 14, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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‘Looking back I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.’
— Katherine Mansfield
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#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity
Katherine Mansfield
January 14, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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Another in my series of libraries
Plantin-Moretus Museum library, Antwerp
#SomethingBeautiful #LoveLibraries #EveryLibraryMatters #Libraries #Library #LibrarySky #libsky
Plantin-Moretus Museum library, Antwerp - dark wooden bookshelves, desks, wooden busts on pedestals, white busts on top of shelves
January 14, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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Journalling for a New Year
Online
Writing workshop
New year, new writing! Journalling to find your personal wisdom and explore paths to feeling good through creative writing. Choose either Sun 18 Jan OR Sun 1 Feb, 2-4pm (UK time). Only £25. Booking info: www.writingforwellbeing.co.uk/therapy-and-...
You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. (Maya Angelou)
January 10, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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Another in my series of images from medieval manuscripts
#SomethingBeautiful #MedievalSky
Nativity scene
January 13, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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“Still, life had a way of adding day to day.”
~ Virginia Woolf
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#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity
Virginia Woolf
January 13, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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Another in my series of libraries
Phillips Exeter Academy Library
#SomethingBeautiful #LoveLibraries #EveryLibraryMatters #Libraries #Library #LibrarySky #libsky
Phillips Exeter Academy Library - view from upper level looking down into central hall, with Iarge circular openings in curved concrete supports revealing levels with bookstacks
January 13, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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"One should hear at least a little song every day, read a good poem, see a fine painting and, if possible, speak a few sensible words."
— Goethe
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#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity
Goethe
January 12, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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Journalling for a New Year
Online
Writing workshop
New year, new writing! Journalling to find your personal wisdom and explore paths to feeling good through creative writing. Choose either Sun 18 Jan OR Sun 1 Feb, 2-4pm (UK time). Only £25. Booking info: www.writingforwellbeing.co.uk/therapy-and-...
Hand writing in notebook before purple and blue landscape, and purple sky filled with stars
January 12, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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‘Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.’
— Rumi
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#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity
Sunrise from space station (photo Tim Peake)
January 12, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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Another in my series of libraries
Oodi, Helsinki Central Library
#SomethingBeautiful #LoveLibraries #EveryLibraryMatters #Libraries #Library #LibrarySky #libsky
Exterior of Oodi, Helsinki Central Library - which is bright yellow and shaped like the prow of a ship
January 12, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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‘We want people to sit, pause, relax’: National Trust to open its libraries for public use
‘We want people to sit, pause, relax’: National Trust to open its libraries for public use
Charity plans to make stately homes more welcoming by inviting visitors to use furniture and reading rooms
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January 12, 2026 at 6:01 AM
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@writeforwellbeing.bsky.social Tomorrow, Jan 11 is #WorldJournalingDay, led by the International Association of Journal Writers (IAJW). Let's connect with other folks who practice self-care and #wellness via #journaling and #expressive writing. 👇 👇

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World Journaling Day 2026
World Journaling Day is a celebration of journaling and journal writers everywhere! January 11 2026. Presentations & prizes.
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January 10, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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#SaturdayMotivation
#SaturdayThoughts
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If you feel something calling you to dance or write or paint or sing, please refuse to worry about whether you're good enough. Just do it. (Glennon Doyle)
January 10, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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‘Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.’
— Novalis
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#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity
Let yourself become living poetry. (Rumi)
January 10, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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Journalling for a New Year
Online
Writing workshop
New year, new writing! Journalling to find your personal wisdom and explore paths to feeling good through creative writing. Choose either Sun 18 Jan OR Sun 1 Feb, 2-4pm (UK time). Only £25. Booking info: www.writingforwellbeing.co.uk/therapy-and-...
You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. (Maya Angelou)
January 10, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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Another in my series of libraries
Old Birmingham Central Library
#SomethingBeautiful #LoveLibraries #EveryLibraryMatters #Libraries #Library #LibrarySky #libsky
Black-and-white photo of old Birmingham Central Library - soaring arches, huge skylights, great arched pillars, rows of long writing desks, and books, books, books
January 10, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.
January 10, 2026 at 4:57 AM
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How do you know they were abandoned and not just looking for somewhere to build their houses?
January 10, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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Journalling for a New Year
Online
Writing workshop
New year, new writing! Journalling to find your personal wisdom and explore paths to feeling good through creative writing. Choose either Sun 18 Jan OR Sun 1 Feb, 2-4pm (UK time). Only £25. Booking info: www.writingforwellbeing.co.uk/therapy-and-...
Today I will be creative
January 9, 2026 at 8:04 PM