Courage to Change
Local "Smartphone Crisis" Event and Mini Retreat
Dear Friends
Have you ever heard or spoken this prayer?
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change
The courage to change the things I can
And the wisdom to know the difference
This short and sweet prayer is recited at recovery meetings, and I’ve carried it with me for 17 years and it still works every time! When you start messing with things you can’t control, it messes with your mind!
Anna Lembke, in an interview about dopamine addiction, gave some inspiring advice “Just get on with the jobs ahead of you today”. It can be easy to get lost in your head sometimes. Be a bit Nike and JUST DO IT.
I’m going through some changes here, and working out my way as I go...
🏫 As of September this year I’m home educating my son - The decision is right for our family but it’s a huge sacrifice! This week we’ve been looking at the food chain in the ocean and how our clothes are made, amongst lots of play and connection - see photos at end of this email
💖 I’ve been phone sober for 21 days! The compulsion to check is waning. The lack of “fake connection” online is making me seek out in person real life connection. So I have two fun local events coming up...Smartphone Crisis / Discussion Evening AND Courage to Change / Women’s Retreat (scroll down for more details)
🎨 I’ve hosted two online Creative Spaces - Participants have used the space to draw, business brainstorm, write songs and write poetry. Come and give it a try. Sundays 8-9pm : Creative Space - Song Catching / Word Smithing / Noodle Doodling. A reflective and creative space FIND OUT MORE
LOVE ALWAYS WINS
Laura
XOXOXOX
LOCAL EVENTS
📖 I wrote my first book “Your Phone is Killing You” this year - I’m working out ways to reach new people with it. As you know I’m not on social media, so I’m excited to have partnered with Smartphone Free Childhood and we are putting on a local event on Tuesday 18th Nov, Smartphone Crisis - Discussion examining how smartphones are impacting children’s and adults mental health Interactive Talk + Community Building
🌸 After a little break over the summer I’m starting my women’s mini retreats again locally. The next one is named after the Serenity Prayer... Courage To Change Sunday 30th Nov Earlybird Tickets Available until 2nd Nov
Recommendations
🧒 I’ve been enjoying digging into the history of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. I love this podcast ...Twenty-six songs, play-party games, and poems selected from over 200 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and Folkways Records present a panorama of music performed for and by young children.
🎥 I edited a short clip from my last Creative Space, talking about what I believe about creativity (we are all artists) and about creative resistance.
🎵 Absolutely love this live performance from NYX at the State 51 Conspiracy. I’m obsessed with their cover of Dream Baby Dream
🏠 My friend Garavavati has just launched a beautiful shop of her weavings that she created in a year long course in Sweden.
Join My Online Creative Community - We meet Sunday Nights
Sundays 8-9pm : Creative Space - Song Catching / Word Smithing / Noodle DoodlingA reflective and creative space FIND OUT MORE
My son is going through his “Damien Hirst Era” where he tells me what to do. He wanted to copy this picture out of a book, and add more sea creatures to it.
My husband is very good at inspiring my sons drawing. I love these little cuties...
