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Writing for Wellbeing? I'm your practitioner...

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  Did you know I'm a writing for wellbeing practitioner, trained and mentored by the amazing people at Literature Wales?  My ethos?  Notice - Connect - Celebrate My aim?  To help you improve and maintain good mental health and wellbeing so you can live your lives to the fullest, adopting strategies to help you move forwards. I've opened up my diary for bookings and am ready to work with you to deliver bespoke writing for wellbeing sessions specific to you or your participants' needs.  The exploratory nature of putting pen (or pencil) to paper can be a very powerful tool in helping us unlock our past, understand our feelings and emotions, and provide a doorway into our futures.  There is growing knowledge and understanding that taking part in the arts as a means of improving our mental health and wellbeing has a positive impact.  I have worked with diverse groups of participants, including primary and secondary aged children in school settings, young a...

My Debut Book is Here - 'The Edge of Everything'

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Hi everyone, It's been a while, and apologies for the radio silence here, but I've been working on something very special behind the scenes.  My debut book, 'The Edge of Everything', is to be published next week with The H'mm Foundation.  It's a pinch me moment for sure! Here are a couple of links where you can purchase my book: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-edge-of-everything/lottie-williams//9781068505393  https://www.foyles.co.uk/book/the-edge-of-everything/lottie-williams/9781068505393  https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=lottie+williams&crid=CC0ZTFMY4W7U&sprefix=lottie+williams%2Caps%2C76&ref=nb_sb_noss  Inside the gorgeous front cover, painted by my equally gorgeous cousin Lucy (lucye_letters on Insta), is a collection of essays on place and love, joy and grief.  I pop back to my own childhood, look to my children's futures, explore beaches, hills and rivers.  It is fused with elements of the climate and ecological emergency, of my da...