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Amazing! Congratulations, and have a great time, Kate!

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Thanks Don!

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Enjoy your time away, Kate! Hope you find loads of inspiration.

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Thank you, Sarah!

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Congratulations, Kate! I hope that there are lots of wonderful (and non-anxiety, but rather joy producing) surprises that come you're way while you're in Canada. I love the way that you identify anxiety as ink, very apt!

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Thank you Emily! Glad the metaphor works for you too :)

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Oh yes, it does.

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I love how you wrote this. And your metaphors. I'm going to try substituting "Inky" for other sensations of anxiety and the paragraph about worry not having any value. Boy! That "monkey mind" really does a job on us, doesn't it?

Anyway, big congratulations to you, big time, and enjoy, enjoy, enjoy your new location, new life, and your writing.

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Thank you so much! And yes, it really does...!!

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Happy writing!

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Thank you!

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Congratulations Kate! I'm cheering you on from the other side of Canada.

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Thank you so much!

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Aug 4Liked by Kate Brook

Nice

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Congratulations, Kate! This sounds so wonderful and so very deserved. I hope you enjoy every bit of it.

As someone who’s going through her own (seemingly infinite) loop with anxiety and freedom and Freefalling Through The Unknown these days, this post was such a balm. Thank you. (And don’t worry: everything WILL be okay. ❤️)

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Thank you! I'm glad it was a balm. So strange the way your head often knows it will be okay, but your body is like 'naaah it won't'!

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Hoping not to see you here again until the other side of the retreat. A month of pure immersion is delicious!

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Right?! I can’t quite believe my luck. Thanks Caroline!

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