Inspiring Words – And Breathe……

Wilbur Smith – Tips on Writing

June 14, 2019Paul Harris

I was hugely excited and proud to have a blog published on the Mind website this week; it was all about how writing helps my mental health.

Writing My Way Through Anxiety and Depression

Creative writing is great fun and I really enjoy letting my mind go wild, and that is what I did with my novel ‘Rotten Apples’ and it’s hero Jimmy, I just had fun with it.

I haven’t written creatively for a long time now and it is something I will go back too; I have drafts of Jimmy’s further adventures; tackling smugglers in Cornwall and coming face to face with blood diamond dealers in South Africa. I have lots of other ideas for novels, but they will just have to wait for now.

Some of you may want to write creatively, and like me at the start, not really know how to go about it, so I thought I would share some tips from a master of adventure; best selling author Wilbur Smith. Read more →

The Lake Isle of Innisfree – W. B. Yeats

June 13, 2019Paul Harris

To ‘Let Go’ Takes Love

May 9, 2019May 9, 2019Paul Harris

To ‘let go’ does not mean to stop caring, it means I can’t do it for someone else.

To ‘let go’ is not to cut myself off, it is the realisation I can’t control another.

To ‘let go’ is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences.

To ‘let go’ is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome is not in my hands. Read more →

Leisure – W. H. Davies

November 30, 2018Paul Harris

Demons of Darkness – Olivia B

November 14, 2018Paul Harris

Things have been a real struggle recently; the depression has hit hard since Friday and it literally paralyses me so I cannot do much of anything.

I was browsing the internet whilst on the sofa and found this poem; I have no idea who the writer is, but I thought I would share it because it reminded me to keep fighting the demons, even when they push you to the bottom of the mountain that you’ve been desperately trying to climb…… Read more →