I know a busy, chaotic, mind all too well - in fact if you’ve followed me from the beginning of my calligraphy journey, you’ll know: an urgent need to support my mental wellbeing was what led me to discover calligraphy and it’s calming benefits.

Overwhelm can creep up on you and slowly take over your life, knocking you off balance. And soon we’re spinning in it by the end of our day or week.

When we’re overwhelmed, we’re often doing things that aren’t actually helping reduce the overwhelm, like:

• prioritising things that actually add to your busyness

• distracting yourself with unhealthy ways to numb the feeling

• telling yourself you don’t have time to slow down

• focusing more on others than yourself

Or, the easiest: just carrying on as you are *fingers-in-your-ears* hoping it all calms down soon… any of this sound familiar?

We then get into the spiralling of negative thinking, low mood, and feeling like you’re stuck in daily routines that aren’t serving you. This is often the turning point where burnout follows. 

So what can we do to reduce it - or even better, prevent overwhelm?

• prioritising things that actually reduce your busyness

• creating small pockets of calm throughout your day that recharges you

• giving just five minutes a day to a creative practice

• putting yourself first

Or, the easiest: just changing one small thing, this week, today, or even right now!

Seeing the impact trying calligraphy, learning calligraphy and adopting calligraphy as a tool for my wellbeing - and many others - is what has led me to create this new free workbook: The Calming Calligraphy Workbook.

What if you made time to enjoy small pockets of calm throughout your day/week that recharges you?



> This free workbook is perfect to dip into when you need it.

What if you gave just five minutes a day to learning something, or a creative practice?

> This free workbook gives you all the tools to begin a new creative practice.

What if you ‘put your oxygen mask on first’, making time to calm your busy mind, and do something that’s JUST FOR YOU? (So you you can have more energy for others.)

> This free workbook allows you to calm your mind, and spend some quality time with yourself, just creating.

And best of all: you only need a pencil!

Making time to pause, even for just five minutes can make a big difference in our busy, and sometimes overwhelming, days.

This free workbook helps you find new tools to calm your mind.

The antidote to overwhelm for me, is slow and easy. So I’ve broken things down in to small bitesize pages in the workbook ready to dip-into any time.

1.     Simply download

If you’re like me you’ll sign up and forget to do anything with the download - SO THIS IS YOUR PROMPT: Download now and save the workbook to your device!

 2.     Print it off or follow it along

If you can print the workbook off you can use the traceable exercises throughout the workbook. If not, don’t worry - you can print off at any point, and still work through the workbook onto paper / notebook. Just follow along on screen.

 3.     Have fun

You’re already dealing with a lot. Take the pressure off and just let the creative mark-making and calming calligraphy ease your day. Play with pencils, or pens - no need for fancy tools.

Create your creative space 

In order to reduce the stress, and activate your “calm”, it can really help to create a space just for you that engages more relaxing, happy hormones. So, I outline some of my favourite easy things you can try doing to help you set up, from what you can see, feel, taste and hear – a full sensory experience.

Then it’s all about just making your mark

We begin with getting connected to our pencil or pen, and paper. I guide you through some common strokes to practice - great for learning and improving techniques, and calming our minds.

Learn to create some lovely letters

A mindful moment simply tracing through each of the letterforms, making sure you’re breathing is deep and slow and added tips for creating and calming.

Learn to create some wonderful words

We then explore calligraphy through the seasons and reinforcing our new found calm with words to ease the day – this day, or any day. And there’s plenty of space to practice.

So whether you’ve got a pencil, crayon or full on brush pen calligraphy set, this is for you if…

…you’re struggling with a never ending to do list
…you’re focusing more on others than yourself
…you’re exhausted by the end of the day
…you feel uninspired and uncreative
…your mind is always busy

Grab my Calming Calligraphy Workbook for a five minute reset, and a moment of creative bliss to calm your mind. 

If you’re keen to get started with calligraphy, check out my Mindful Calligraphy Club, or a course or workshop in London and online.