Hey there!
Today I needed a little bit of good news. I won’t share the details, but let me say this: I went through the wringer this week.
I was seriously upset, but in the end, I fixed things up again. It was hard and painful and please don’t for a moment ever think that I’m sitting here in Sydney, sailing through life, telling everyone else how to chill and have a good time. Not always true!
Our lives are the same, yours and mine. Some things are GREAT (yay! new book coming out!) and some things are SO HARD I want to cry (but I make it through).
When things go wrong, what do I do?
Walk a lot.
Feel my feelings (This is new. I used to eat my feelings, or stuff them down. Now I let them in, take a look, and try to deal openly with what’s happening.)
Ask myself the best question in the world. How is this working in my favour? (I wrote about that here! Read it if you’re struggling this week…)
What you’ll notice is that I’m not a “retail therapy” person. I don’t shop for entertainment or to feel better. But this week, I took a shortcut.
For me, when I look down at my hands and see a pretty ring, I feel SO GOOD. Here’s my find this week from Collette Hayman (not a sponsored blog post!). I love this ring. It’s exactly what I would have bought to make myself happy when I was ten years old. And it was $2 on sale.
The flower ring makes me think this: how much joy can we access if we shift our attention to what makes us feel good?
It costs almost nothing to find some joy.
Rings are symbols, of course, and they also work well when you want to feel better in an instant. Why? We always look at our hands. Think about it: it’s the only jewellery you get to see yourself wear.
So, it may be silly but it works: if you want a little instant happy, remember that you don’t need a real diamond. You don’t need to wait. You can think back to yourself as a ten year old girl, you can give her something fun, and you can make her happy.
I hope you enjoy today, I really do! Have some fun, and as always, be fun to live with!
I appreciate all of you SO MUCH, more than you know! Your emails this week made everything so much better.
Catherine x
PS.
You guys! Love Lie Repeat is out in Australia in 15 days! You can buy it at all good independent bookshops, like Libby’s at Beachside, at Big W and Target, and all the big chain bookshops, too. And online at Booktopia and amazon Australia. Personally, I love to support Indie bookshops!
If you’re overseas, order here with free postage worldwide. I appreciate you SO MUCH! (We haven’t yet signed an overseas book deal, so this is the only way you can get Love Lie Repeat. The price is AWESOME.)
And here’s a shout-out to Alicia in America — a sweet friend of mine — who launched Dorset and Pond. So pretty.