An invite to close the year with me...

Tues 28 Nov, 2-3.30pm

What do you want to share in reflection of your year? What feels important and sacred to you? I’d love to know?

Hello petals,

I’m writing to you from our studio with a view of the sea…

Photo by David Brooke Martin on Unsplash

There’s a rainbow I can see out of the corner of my eye over the farmer’s field. It gets brighter and bolder as I type spurring me on to schedule this before nursery pick up.

Here and now, I’ve just finished reflecting on the last chapter of my year… even though the year itself is not quite finished yet.

I wanted to do this work now because the end of the year has the tendency to feel like a runaway train for us…

Time speeds up, intensity creeps in and we loose a grip on routine…

Do you relate?

December; often a far away contrast from our ‘slow lived’ life…

We end up so in need of a break that it’s HARD to start up again in January and this way, we get to give our end of year the space and energy it deserves.

I don’t know about you but this year has been INCREDIBLE and I mean that in every sense of the word!

In my journalling session just now, I reflected on;

• What I’m proud of

• What the surprises have been

• Where money has come from in my business

• What has felt (really) hard

I evaluated everything I’d done in my business and the things that rewarded me from my ‘self seeded’ work.

I tuned into the holistic decisions I made to “lock on” and hyper focus and where I felt shame in the balance, my parenting, my marriage.

Where occasions bubbled up of not feeling like any of it was quite ‘enough’.

I pulled some gentle creative oracle cards;

rest, ease, intrepid, simplicity

Incase the words are hard to read above… they read;

• rest

• ease

• intrepid

• simplicity

These card are sold in small batches by my artist friend

Sarah Shotts

After I pulled the cards, I set the intention for our ‘Closing of the Year’ - Ways into Creative Journalling Workshop. The last workshop of 2023.

My gift to my members here

Creatively Conscious

Our intention for the work is;

To make rest and simplicity easy in our life and business… for the holidays (and for the future).

If you’d like to do some of this work too and join me for my ‘Closing the Year’ workshop you can do that by upgrading to be a paid subscriber (member of Creatively Conscious) here on Substack or by purchasing it separately here.

If you’re already a member and would like email reminders for the workshop I can sort that for you, just hit reply.

I’m so looking forward to holding space for you to close the year in a soulful and creative way 28 Nov, 2-3.30pm.

Let’s hold the threads of the holistic as one thing, of everything that came together to show up for us through our heart centred work and the whispers of our soul that still put for our attention before we can rest this month.

Hope you can come!

Claire x

PS - Zoom Link in below… 💕✨

Some photos of rainbows I did take this year...

Your Replay is here.

1. I should have paused to take a photo for you but time passed and it disappeared… a metaphor for life really… the moment passes and we don’t always intergrate the journey before we are on with the next thing…