@colinwalker yes the mental health side of it is going to have a huge impact in the weeks to come. I feel very privileged having a garden for the kids to burn off some energy. I really feel for those with no outside space such as flats/tower blocks etc.
Noticed you mention morning pages. This is a new concept I’ve only come across in the past few days, and am going to look into it further. Do you get a lot out of it?
@milkthealmond Absolutely. They're just a vehicle for your mind to say whatever it's got on it. It's not like you're sitting down with a plan, it's just whatever comes out and once you get going all sorts of thoughts bubble to the surface that you never knew you had. There's a lot of truth in them if you allow it.
@colinwalker @milkthealmond Second the endorsement of morning pages.
I don't follow the rules strictly, but for more than six weeks, the first thing I do every day is sit down and journal. I try to write down everything that seems important to me. Sometimes I cut-and-paste some of it to social media and the blog.
My goal was never to post my thoughts and feelings, but always to simply keep a daily record of where I had been and what I had done, following Isaac Asimov's model. But thoughts and feelings get in there anyway!
@MitchWagner @colinwalker Thanks for the advice chaps. Is it merely a fact of starting with The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron and taking it from there, or is there some other go to resource that everyone uses?
@milkthealmond Just spend some time writing as soon as you can comfortably do so after you wake up. You’ll figure it out from there.
Don’t kill yourself doing it either. Before I get to my morning pages, I wash up and take care of a few small chores that need doing every morning. And I make my coffee and drink my 1st cup with the pages.