I could go on and on and on some more, and I probably will, about all the things I figured out last week-end; but the one thing I want to focus on right now is the matter of the little voices in the head. Where I come from, they are synonym of psychiatric hospital, so not an easy task to take on board. But after day one of the workshop, I started hearing them in a whole different way!

The idea of Mister “I-sussed-it-out” is that instead of feeling freaked out by the constant chatter in our head, we should get to know the little voice(S) in the head, figure out how they can be helpful and then give them a full time job. He has a point, they are noisy and omnipresent, so they might as well be useful.

Now I could share what came out of my exercise which aim was to sack my judgemental personae… Or you could try for yourself: The exercise is quite simple, you ask questions to the little voice, here my judgemental one, with your writing hand and you collect the answer with your non-writing one. Simple as!

The result is astonishing, I read it back later at night, after a little visit to the coffeshop, and OMG, I swear it was my soul talking to me! A deep side of me which I openly despise, and which of course I despise in everyone else, the judgemental “I” came across as the best thing that had ever happened to me. And it was, I swear a pure “Alleluia” moment. It’s is like a battle of me Vs me has been won… by me. And believe ME, I am reluctant to ever make my life easy!

I am also a believer that every book I pick has a message for me, it always has, even if it is just something I pick from a shelve, in the shop, the one line I read will be relevant .. So guess what, my heroine in the book I heard twice about, she is very playful with her army of head people, not to the best outcome so far, but hey, it is a fiction!