Charlotte Cummings

People find this like really surprising when I confess to this.

You know, I've bought all the pretty journals over time and they just have like two or three pages written in them.

I'm not a 5am wake up person that, you know, sits down doing their journaling.

I'm just not that person.

I'm a writer on the back of a scrap of a receipt or the back of an envelope or maybe in the notes section of my phone.

You don't have to do journaling as if it's like a practice that you're doing every day.

If you're, you know, some kind of amazing yogi unicorn and that works for you, go for it.

But that is not me.

We need to embrace, though, that idea of writing down what we're thinking, of being able to look at it on paper and go, oh, that's kind of a bit of a funky picture.

What am I going to do about that?

Or how come I'm thinking that?

Is that thing actually true?

That ability to be reflective with ourselves is such an important life skill, especially when we think about how things like an unbearable feeling hold us back.

So we had lived in the same community for 10 years.

I went for a walk one day with a colleague actually who was visiting and we walked down the road to get coffee.

And here I am stopping, talking to the old man from the rest home that I always have a yarn to and say hello to that neighbor.

And then I get to the cafe and they know exactly what I want.

And my friend said, oh, it's like you're the mayor of this little town.

And it

It wasn't that at all, but I just knew people everywhere.