Christine Poole

Scientist. Writer. Facilitator. Artist. Curious about what helps us grow.

creativity

  • 🌱 The Things We Bring to Life

    Reflections on Motherhood and Writing Today is my son’s 9th birthday, and it feels like a fitting day to reflect. There’s something incredible about watching a child grow—knowing that someone so full of personality, curiosity, and possibility began as something so small. A seed, in a way, needing time, care, patience, and love. A few… Read more

  • Begin again

    My last post was….Friday 13th December 2024!! 6 months ago, and so much has happened in that time. This fallow period of not publishing has allowed me to settle into myself, and I have become very clear about what it is I want to create. And now, on Friday, 13th June 2025, I will begin… Read more

  • Friday 13th, 2024

    I’ve previously set myself a 90-day challenge to do a first draft of my memoir. But without being fully conscious of it, I went and set myself a new challenge…. to finish a book and release it on Friday the 13th….and I did it in 54 days! There’s my ebook cover (currently pending review on… Read more

  • Go with the Flow!

    Last week I was singing the praises of my writing group ‘Write on’. We met at an online writing course in April 2021 called ‘Finding your flow’ – based on an idea by the Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’ who wrote in his book “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience” that during flow, people typically experience deep… Read more