October - December 2023: ‘Fearless Living’ by Rhonda Britten
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March and April 2023: The regrowth of my 'musician' limb, and a wild new chapter
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April 2022: Celebrating not being in chronic pain
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August 2021: Mindful Self-Compassion Circles of Practice meditations
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June 2021: Relinquishing the fight
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February 2021: Do I have a future?
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December 2020: Resilience
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July 2020: A time of deeper learning
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June 2020: Reframing failure
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May 2020: "Rewriting is where the game is won or lost; rewriting is the essence of writing" - William Zinsser
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