I hope this doesn’t confuse your internal clock too much but today is obviously Friday, not the usual Tuesday when I send this.

It’s been one of those weeks where the rhythm of life gets completely thrown off. On Monday, I was sitting in the garden, finalising the original version of this newsletter and enjoying a bit of sun, when I heard a crash from inside the house. I didn’t think too much of it at first. With teenage boys and a dog, noise is just part of the background.

It's bank holiday Monday and I'm writing this in the sun in my garden. I've just got back from a night at a wonderful campsite and there are some genuinely exciting things on the horizon this week.

But if I can be honest (and that's always been the deal here), I'm feeling rather overwhelmed. Not in a desperate sense, just an unease and a feeling of imbalance. In the past I would have ignored it, masked upand carried on but I know better now.

Testing new things is all part of nurturing my curiosity and to help me recover from decades of perfectionism. I held myself back because I feared getting things wrong and I assumed others would judge me, when really the judgement was coming from within. By growing my self‑compassion, I’ve created more space to play.

And that brings me to this week’s theme: the stories we live inside and the freedom that comes when we question them.

I’d like to start this week with a recent reflection if that’s ok….

I don’t think anyone really knows what’s going on any more.

That might sound extreme but I’ve been noticing something. The world feels increasingly weird, complicated and heavy. The hyper-normalisation of genuinely odd things has left many of us unsure which way is up, who to trust, which side we’re on and whether the images we’re seeing are even real.

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