Christine Poole

Scientist, Writer, Facilitator, Artist on a journey of self discovery

journaling

  • Focus is Power

    I’m an eclectic writer – from poetry to children’s stories, scientific papers to memoir- but what I have trouble doing is finishing pieces to a quality I am proud of…or if I’m really honest – finishing pieces….like this post for example, its been sitting as a draft since January (which made me laugh today when… Read more

  • Imposter syndrome

    I haven’t been writing much and certainly haven’t been posting on my blog. My Writing for Healing workshop was a dream of mine from two years ago – inspired by Natalie Goldberg’s book ‘Writing down the bones’ where she talked about how much she learnt about herself as a writer – by teaching. It intrigued… Read more

  • I’ll start with the good news – I’m here, I showed up, I am being accountable to the challenge, hurrah for me! But for my writing – not such a great week. I only added an extra 1091 words to the draft. I could say life got in the way (it did) & it was… Read more

  • I am a writer

    writing and photo by Christine Poole 05.03.2024 I’ve been keeping (almost) daily journals since 24th March 2016 (wow 8 years, look at them all beautifully stacked up!). But I’ve always lacked the courage to say out loud…..I am a writer! Words and books hold a place dear to my heart and I’ve wanted to be… Read more