A Year, Woven: Quietly Creating

Trusting that the best next step is simply sharing where I am.

Spring is not an arrival, but a remembering. The earth softens, the light lengthens, and somewhere within us, something stirs too. A call to loosen, to root, to grow.

I’ve been working on something behind the scenes for a wee while now and I mentioned it briefly last month - Your Woven Year, my seasonal journal-planner-notebook for educators. It is, I hope, an invitation to pause, reflect, and work with - not against - the natural cycles of energy, creativity, and rest.

I feel a quiet hesitation about sharing more but I know I personally love when others share a little from behind the scenes… Maybe you know the feeling yourself, the moment when an idea that has been safely your own is suddenly out in the open. A little exhilarating. A little terrifying. And the stark reality that it will no longer be ‘perfect’ (while also knowing that was only ever an illusion).

So here’s a little more about the project I’ve been quietly working on.

A Different Way to Move Through the Year

I’m very particular about my stationary. Once I find a planner, journal or notebook that works for me, I’ve been known to buy quite a few at once! They all serve a slightly different purpose and I’ve often found myself needing all three.

For a long time, I’ve been searching for something I couldn’t quite find. Planners often felt too structured, focused on what needs to be done but not always on how we feel while doing it. Journals offered space for reflection but lacked the practical side I needed to keep life moving. Notebooks, while beautifully open-ended, often felt too unstructured and sometimes even daunting.

So, I started creating something in between. Your Woven Year is a hybrid of all three. A tool that supports both reflection and action with structure and flexibility. It’s not a rigid planner with every hour mapped out. It’s not a deep-dive journal requiring daily emotional processing. It’s not just a blank notebook.

Your Woven Year is a place to reflect when you need to, plan when it helps, and capture thoughts as they come. Rather than being just one thing, I hope it will act as a gentle companion to:

• Reflect on the changing seasons

• Plan your days and weeks

• Capture thoughts and ideas

It’s designed to move with you, whether you’re planning, reflecting, or just making space to breathe.

Slowly but Surely

This journal-notebook-planner hybrid has been slowly taking shape, woven together through months of writing, thinking, and refining.

I’ve asked myself:

• What do I want from a planner-journal-notbeook that I haven’t found before?

• How do we move through a year in a way that acknowledges a different rhythm and pace to that of the academic year?

• How can we hold the thread of what matters and weave it into life, work and the seasons?

I’ll be sharing more over the coming months but for now, I just want to say - this is coming, and I’d love to bring you into it.

Join the Waitlist

If this resonates with you, if you’re curious to learn more about Your Woven Year please join the wait list below. I will share more information about publication dates and how you can get your hands on a copy!

I’d love for you to be part of this…

March Podcast Spotlight: Navigating Burnout with Helen Anderson-Turner

In my latest podcast episode, I sit down with Hazel Anderson-Turner, psychologist, coach and author of Coaching Through Burnout, to chat about burnout. Hazel brings both personal experience and professional insight to the conversation, shedding light on the realities of burnout in high-pressure environments and the role of psychological flexibility in recovery and prevention.

Hazel’s insights remind us that resilience isn’t about endurance but adaptability. When we stop ‘pushing through’ and start working with ourselves, real change becomes possible.

Check out Hazel’s book Coaching Through Burnout.

Tune in to our conversation here.

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