Anita Kate Garai/Being With Our Feelings

Woohoo! My books are now being stocked at the fabulous Eeny meeny -a gorgeous new children's boutique shop in Sussex. Get down there and have a look at all their lovely wares! 🙂

“Let things break, stop forcing yourself to hold them together. Let people be mad. Let them criticize you, their reaction is not your problem. Let it all fall apart, and don't worry about the after.

Where will I go? What am I going to do? No one is ever lost on the way, no one is left without a shelter. What is meant to go will go anyway. What's meant to stay, will stay. Too much effort, is never a good sign, too much effort is a sign of conflict with the universe. Relationships, jobs, home, friends and great loves.

Give it all to earth and heaven, water when you can, pray and dance but then, let what it must bloom and the dry leaves pull themselves off. What goes away always leaves room for something new: it's universal laws. And never think that there is nothing good for you anymore, you just have to stop holding back what needs to be let go.

Only when your journey ends, then will the possibilities end, but until then, let it all fall apart, let it go, let it be.”

(“Eat, pray, love”, Elizabeth Gilbert)

I am running this FREE course for parents and carers living in East Sussex, starting in October. Call the number on the poster to book. Limited places 😊

Starting next month at Hailsham Family Hub (not Devonshire as originally planned).

This course isn't about parenting strategies, it's about helping the parent/carer cope by looking at ways to reduce the struggle, support their own emotional health & also improve their relationship with their child.

Feedback from previous courses said: "This course has really helped me to look at things differently." & "I was brought up in a way that I now see wasn't healthy, I'm trying to change this by allowing my children to learn & experience things differently. "

Anita Kate Garai/Being With Our Feelings

Autumn - the season of letting go ❤️

'If I try to hold on to the clouds, they just float away.

If I try to hold on to the sun, it still goes down every day.

I can try to hold on to feeling good, but sometimes I just don’t

And if I try to make a butterfly stay, the butterfly simply won’t.

I can hold the sand inside my hand, but it trickles to the ground

And I watch as bubbles fly away and pop without a sound.

If I hold a flower really tight, it will die without a warning

And have you every tried to hold a dream, when you wake up in the morning?

Letting go is really hard, so we try to hold on tight, to the people and the things we love.

We try with all our might.

But if we keep on holding things, we don’t give them a chance

To come and go,
and rise and fall,
and do their natural dance.'

from Little Pebble, by
Anita Kate Garai/Being With Our Feelings

Here's a poem I wrote to support children who may be going through loss and change ❤️

You can see all my books here: www.beingwithourfeelings.com

I offer visits, readings, workshops and much more!
Feel free to contact me at [email protected]

https://youtu.be/tiwWJczOmyo?si=dylWAp6ACZKX-Hyl

My Little Pebble: love, loss and letting go - a poem for children of all ages, by Anita Kate Garai. Losing something or someone we love is painful, and can be a difficult topic to talk about with children. This beautifully written poem (told by the poet her...

"Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really, we just don't know."
(Pema Chodron)

Illustration by Pip Williams from 'What If All The Trees Blow Away' by Anita Kate Garai.

Get a FREE signed copy of my children's book, I Don't Want To Be Me!

Buy one of the last signed copies of my guidebook for only £25 (RRP £29.99) and I'll throw in a signed children's book COMPLETELY FREE!

Once they're gone, they're gone.

Only 10 left!

Just comment YES PLEASE and I'll message you for details of where to send them ❤️

www.beingwithourfeelings.com

If you're struggling with your child's behaviour and you'd like some support, get in touch. I can help ❤️

NEW!! A 6 week emotional wellbeing programme for kids, teens and adults. Levels 1, 2 & 3 available.

From £60 per week.

6 weeks of individual coaching, with Anita Kate Garai, teacher and author of "Being With Our Feelings, a mindful approach to emotional wellbeing"
(Routledge, 2023)

For more info, private message or email [email protected]

www.beingwithourfeelings.com

Spaces left for September!