Welcome to ‘with ease’

Dear Friend

Thanks for being inquisitive, especially if you’ve just discovered ‘with ease’.

It’s so nice to be connected.

I really appreciate you taking the time to read my Substack, because I know how many other fabulous Substacks you could be reading right now.

So why choose ‘with ease’?

Eek! It’s a really good question.

‘with ease’ is a newsletter where I share stories about the “behind the scenes” of my writing & wellbeing retreats that I co-host with best selling authors and expert creatives. Sometimes I pinch myself that I get the opportunity to collaborate with the likes of Emma Gannon, Clover Stroud, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Stacey Heale and Laura Pashby, just to name a few.

Most days I write about my mission - to encourage as many women as possible to channel their emotions into something more positive and creative through the practice of therapeutic journalling. If this is something you’re interested in, I host a popular online programme called “Rage on a Page” that has been life changing for many of my students.

So hopefully, you’ll stick around for a while and enjoy my weekly musings, short essays and therapeutic journalling prompts.

It’s not been all smooth writing. I’ve been on quite a Substack journey. I started writing on Substack back in 2022, initially sharing stories about my experience of owning two pandemic puppies, two rather BIG Rhodesian Ridgebacks. But I lost my mojo with writing about dogs.

So I decided to write and share stories about what I do day to day… Hosting writing & wellbeing retreats with best selling authors, coaching therapeutic journalling workshops and launching this November, a podcast called The Bibliotherapists with fellow Substacker Toni Jones founder of The Shelf Help Club.

Since turning 50, I set myself a new writing challenge. To write a book called “Journal with Ease” and publish some of my book writing here on Substack. Weaved in-between entries from my book, I share stories from behind the scenes of my retreats as well as therapeutic journalling prompts.

For my free subscribers, weaved in-between my weekly newsletters, there will be podcast, books and article recommendations. Plus, weekly journalling prompts, and top tips on how to make journalling a non-negotiable wellbeing ritual.

If you become a paid subscriber, you’ll be offered first refusal to book onto my writing retreats with best selling authors and expert creatives - which sell out pretty fast! You’re also invited to join my “Journal with Ease” club - a gentle 45 minutes of guided journaling - for FREE - every Thursday at 1pm hosted on zoom, plus more.

Free vs Paid subscriptions…

FREE SUBSCRIBERS...

• Friday newsletters, featuring information about my therapeutic journalling techniques and prompts, and latest retreat news.

• A opportunity to connect to my ‘with ease’ tribe - a friendly community of likeminded people who engage with me via comments and notes

PAID SUBSCRIBERS...

• Monday & Friday newsletters.

• Access to my ‘Journal with Ease’ membership club, every Thursday at 1pm via zoom.  A gentle 45 minutes of guided journalling with likeminded women.

• A FREE ‘How To Start Journaling' guide with prompts.

• Opportunity to be offered first refusal to NEW day retreats with best selling authors.

• Access to my ‘Sunday WORD:ship’ journalling newsletter.

FOUNDING MEMBERSHIP...

All of the above plus:

• £150 off my ‘Rage on a Page’ online 8 week program.

• A 121 ‘Journal with Ease’ session with me for 45 minutes.

• Access to my VIP invite-only demo day retreats, hosted at exclusive venues in Wales.

I try my best to keep things pretty much up to date on here, but please bare with me, as when I’m out and about hosting retreats I don’t get the time to write on Substack. So if, like me, you love everything to do with journalling, visiting bookshops, attending writer events, discovering new authors and being by the coast, then please come and join me for some friendly interaction ‘with ease’. It would be so lovely to get to know you and share our stories.

When I’m not hosting writing retreats, facilitating therapeutic journalling workshops I’m usually at the beach with my Ridgebacks, with my bare feet firmly in the sand.

So thanks for stopping by.

Hopefully we’ll get to connect on here one day.

Until the next time, take care and stay safe

Tanya