My First Blog Post

My Morning Pages…

This is the first post on my new blog. Firstly a very brief introduction. I’m a mum of a six year old boy, we live in Bristol, UK. I’ve written a journal for a number of years, or another way to describe it is writing ‘my morning pages’. Back in 2005 I was inspired by a book I read called ‘The Artists Way’. It explains how anyone, creatives, artists, poets can get blocked or stuck, and ideas stop flowing. e.g. writers block. The first idea in the book is that before you can start getting creative again or get the stuff done you want to do, you must clear your mind of anything that’s bothering you. To free or declutter your mind and get the creative juices flowing again, start by writing your morning pages… write 3 pages of anything that’s on your mind. 3 pages might seem like a lot, but just start writing… anything and see where it leads.

And so I did, I started writing my morning pages and I found it very cathartic and therapeutic, and surprisingly easy to write 3 pages. I scribbled quickly and illegibly and got stuff off my chest and down on paper, ramblings, nothing interesting, not big stuff. I never intended for it to be read by anyone, and I rarely read it back. I kept this going for a few years. Sometimes I wrote pages and pages, other times just a paragraph and after a few years my morning pages became weekly pages, when I would just write as and when something was bothering me and then it fizzled out. It had done its job.

And then I had my little boy, in 2012. I initially started to keep a breastfeeding diary, but very quickly it turned back into my morning pages again, like a journal and I just kept it going. It has also proved a useful way to keep a track on my son’s neuro-developmental therapy, and now I want to publish my findings, our journey. So this is the start of my first ever blog.