Invisible Threads

Welcome to Invisible Threads!

This is my safe space to connect with others through the medium of my writing.

This space is a closed group for invited people where you can remain anonymous. It is specifically designed for those who may benefit from a special type of connection. Those who have ‘invisible threads’ due to having shared similar experiences.

I will only be accepting people  I know or know of their own personal tragedies and challenges. 

Living in this digital age, so many things are drowning in the  Algorithms of Social Media and  AI. It is truly challenging to know that what we are being presented with through our different mediums is actually real. We are now, I believe, more disconnected than we have ever been with our humanness than ever before in the whole of our recorded history.

I have also designed this private space for those of you who have expressed an interest in following my writing and how I interpret the experiences I have had throughout my own varied life. Experiences that are no greater or less than your own, just different. We all have a story, all of us; it is our own unique life story. The differences are many and varied as to how we have reacted to the infinite individual life challenges depend on a multitude of circumstances. Socioeconomics, Ethnicity, Personality, Family Support, Financial Stability, Physical Capabilities, Age, Gender…and the list continues…

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, women distributed their duties in a way so that when one of them was menstruating, the others took over all her chores, they would let her rest. When she was ready, she returned to the group, refreshed and strong, and resumed her duties.

What topic has that got to do with this blog? Everything really. We are now living in this modern-day society where we have placed, or society has placed upon us, such a great load that we keep falling off balance. It is then described as having a breakdown or having poor Mental Health. The solution we have been led to believe is to seek out our overloaded and overcrowded medical services to then be supplied a bottle of medicines as a mere temporary band-aid, that once removed unveils an infection of the greatest degree. We are not nurturing and supporting one another in the way I believe humans need for sustainable and balanced wellbeing.

 I have been told more times than I can count ” you should write a book”, but, with 130 million (and counting) books written to date in our recorded history, what could I possibly offer that would be of any interest that hasn’t already been covered from every possible perspective!

 The answer is really simple, actually, like most things presented to us, if we leave them uncomplicated, we can usually see the answer sitting right in front of us.

A few years ago, I was privileged to meet Joy Crowley, globally known and recognised as one of our very best New Zealand Authors.

I asked Joy this question. When you take the children into the room for a story, what do you say to them?

Her answer is why I have decided to open up both my heart and my experiences to share with others.

Joy says this to the children.

“Long before the Universe began and long after it ends, there will never be another you”

So you see, we may all have had ‘the same’ thing happen to us and each other, but none of us actually knows how the other person feels about it. We are not them, and they are not us.

But, what I do believe is that we have the ability to be like the cavewoman thousands of years ago, by sharing, we become stronger, and we find different tools in each other’s boxes, tools we may not have in our own.

That, I believe, is just one of the things now missing in our World, the sharing.

We need to pick up whatever threads from others that help us to strengthen the weave of our own multi-layered and multi coloured cloak we each individually wear, the one we each place on each day before stepping out into the world.

 Follow along as I write for my own learnings and enjoyment, unravelling, unwinding, unpacking, untwisting some of the major events in my own life with the intention that it may be helpful and useful in particularly for the youth and those who may be struggling with personal events.

We owe it to our next generation to help them in any way we can. Recognising that the hand they have been dealt may seem too much for them, or in some cases not enough, but unless they have the capacity, support or self-motivation to make the changes they need for change themselves, that will be the hand for life they have to play.