Good morning all

Here's wishing each and everyone of you with whom I have the privilege of working, a very happy, healthy, creative and a kinder 2022!

2021 brought more than its fair share of challenges for most of us in different ways and so I'd guess many of you, like me, are more than happy to retire the dogeared diary of the 2021 with all its loveliness and challenges! I took this photo of my new diary on New Year's Eve and was struck and excited by the blank, wide openness of the New Year. I began to reflect ..........

In recovery and on our therapeutic journeys we work a lot on making changes: thoughts and behaviours. It can be tiring!! On the other hand, meditation teaches us to pause, to clear our mind, to stop working. Looking at the blank pages of the New Year diary, it occured to me that we "write" each day of our lives with our plans, thoughts, appointments, to-do lists ... but in between, there are always blank, open spaces.

And that perhaps for 2022, it might be an idea to welcome, even just visualise, these blank, open spaces a bit more often.

Because these blank spaces are the place of potential, possibility, rest and peace. And, we are undoubtedly healthier, happier and more resourceful people when we balance activity, mental and physical, with rest and peace!

hope this thought for the New Year is helpful to you!

Warm wishes,

Emilie