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

Simple by A. Harris I wrote a simple poem. It only took a while and though it might not change the world, it might make someone smile. A smile, now, that's important - at least, it is to me. A world with one more smile in it is one I'd like to see.
Bromley House library - view from upper level of curving decorated wooden staircase, white walls, tall bookshelves along walls
Annie Proulx
Entwined tree branches in grey-black sky
Bristol University Physics Library - Tall wooden shelves and second level with wood railing, table and chairs
Hannah Arendt
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. (Rumi)
Braddock Carnegie Library, Pennsylvania - exterior including octagonal tower beside a turret, with street sign in front reading 'Library St'.
Poster for Big Barney Balsam Bash
Ernest Hemingway
Child holding out hands to catch snowflakes
Booky McBookface mobile library van, Orkney Islands - on a ferry crossing to one of the islands
Heart-shaped droplet of water on leaf
Tree branch with budding leaves
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Labrouste Room - iron colulmns with cupolas with glazed tiles and skylights
Topping and Co bookshop, Bath
Two happy participants writing at one of my workshops at Dilston Physic Garden. Plates of biccies and cups of tea/coffee too!
Biblioteca Palafoxiana, Pueblo, Mexico - vaulted white ceiling, three levels of dark wooden shelves with balconies, at end is golden retable of Madonna of Trapana
Vivian Lamarque
Sam Neill as Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park
Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, Santiago - high ceilings with large sqaure skylights, arched windows, columns, many long tables and chairs with people reading at them
Man sitting on rock in shallow sea looking at sunset
Biblioteca Pública Arús, Barcelona - two levels of glass-fronted wooden bookcases containing old tomes, display cases, old globe on stand, chandeliers
Full moon shining and reflected on water
White blossoms on tree
Biblioteca Municipal de Lima - really dark wooden shelves and ornately carved railings on second level, spiral wooden staircase, desks with leather chairs
Text of poem Inversnaid
Biblioteca Marciana, Venice - soaring glass ceiling, long hall with 3 levels on each side, two with arches, tables and chairs
Canadian flag
Beitou Library, Taiwan - exterior of eco-friendly wooden building designed to reduce water and electricity consumption, roof with photo-voltaic cells and rainwater capture. Large windows for natural light.
Man looking at lake in midst of mountains, holding young child on his shoulders, and child is bending over backwards to look at camera
Reading won't solve your problems, but neither will dusting. Choose wisely.
Austrian National Library - tall sculptures of figures, walnut bookcases, frescoes on ceiling by Daniel Gran
Bronze sculpture of John Betjeman looking upwards
Armstrong-Browning Library, Baylor University - stained glass windows in room with coffered and painted ceiling, chandelier, bookshelves along walls
Joan Didion
A D White Library, Cornell University - three levels, criss-crossed with walkways decorated with curling metal flourishes and filled with arched enclaves of books
Books with fine bindings in glass-fronted bookcase
Path through hazel wood
Forest of Knowledge, Mumbai - tree-like columns and timber-latticed ceiling, with curved and circular wooden shelving, large windows with window seats
Barbara Kingsolver
Hand writing in notebook
al-Qarawiyyin Library - beautifully high ceiling with lots of light from windows and chandeliers, while walls and old wooden chairs and tables
Joyce Carol Oates
Tortoiseshell cat with mouth open and tongue out, and expression like she might regurgitate
Sailboat with rising sun behind
Liyuan Library - exterior shell of square glass windows covered in twigs to filter natural light, interior with stepped wooden platforms and no chairs
Two people with backpacks walking across rolling hills
Things don't say the same. They grow deeper or they grow apart, but they do not stay the same. Point yourself in the direciton you want to go and step in that direction every day. (Doe Zantamata)
Pen on notebook containing handwriting
Marvelous design with floating platforms, multiple stairways, and a glass bridge. Ceiling bathed in blue light
Illustration of hedgehog sitting on chair in cafe, reading a book, with ice cream sundae on table
English Heritage advert for ‘Head of Stonehenge’
Triple-forking road in countryside with sunrise in distance
National Library of China, Beijing - looking down from an upper floor at square construction with each level having bookstacks and many desks
Imtiaz Dharker
City Library, Stuttgart - bright white interior (shelves, stairs, walls), multiple floors of bookstacks around square open area
Door frame in field with door open, and view of mountains beyond