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    Jackee Holder

    Jackee Holder

    Jackee Holder is the author of the Writing With Fabulous Tree Writing Map (2016) bringing together the restorative benefits of nature, eco psychology, eco geography and self-reflection through tree inspired journal and creative writing prompts. Jackee is a leadership coach and coach trainer who lives in the heart of what was once the great North Wood that covered most of South London. She is the author of three non-fiction titles and runs the popular online Paper Therapy Journal Writing course.

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    Do your Clothes Define you?
    03Apr

    Do your Clothes Define you?
    Jackee Holder
    self
    Soul
    If you scanned your life what would come out tops as your favourite all time outfit? Mine was a check grey and white mixed wool and cotton mixed style blouson jacket. It had a collar that stood up with two lapels that added an extra sense of style to the garment. It looked great over skinny jeans covering my long, slender, sixteen year old legs that went on forever. It even made it onto television when I was a guest on a children's show with children's presenter Elvis Payne and a very young Gordon Honeycomb. It showed it’s dexterity when teamed up with a grey and white checked borderline skirt with pleats all the way round.
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    Can Making the Bed Change Your Life?
    27Dec

    Can Making the Bed Change Your Life?
    Jackee Holder
    home, self, wellbeing
    Soul
    Have you ever wondered what an unmade bed says about you? could the way you leave your bed each morning reflect your state of mind?   In the sixties my family lived in one room on the top floor of a terraced house in South London. The bed took centre stage and if left unmade would throw the whole room into disarray. With the bed made, the room would take on a certain glow and everything else that needed to be tidied would fall into place. There are psychological as well as environmental benefits of a well-made bed. In a recent article, Make Your Bed For Peace...
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    Imagine A World Without Trees?
    28Aug

    Imagine A World Without Trees?
    Jackee Holder
    wellbeing
    Soul
    Can you imagine what your neighbourhood or this country would look like if there were no trees covering the countryside or dotted around our cities, towns or villages? In her novel The Twelve Tribes Of Hattie, author Ayana Mathis describes this scene perfectly when she writes, “ She smelled the absence of trees before she saw it…” There was a time in the past when the UK was covered in wild forests, where trees would live for up to 2000 years. Surely the ancient trees that have survived, who have worked so hard on our behalf, providing wood, habitat for animals and...
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    How To Become A Better Listener
    09Jun

    How To Become A Better Listener
    Jackee Holder
    empathy, friendship, wellbeing
    Soul
    Our environments have become increasingly and worryingly noisier. We talk and text constantly on mobile phones.  It’s the norm to see couples and friends out eating and drinking, and everyone will have their heads down texting or tweeting, even whilst in conversation. So it’s not surprising that as our digital talk increases we’ve steadily become poorer listeners, not better ones. So how does one become a better listener and can you learn to listen well? We’ve become adept at a type of hearing which processes information through our own personal filters. Most...
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    Celebrating Springtime
    07Apr

    Celebrating Springtime
    Jackee Holder
    wellbeing
    Soul
    Spring is the season of hope where we see the early signs of the labour of the winter months come to life. What a good time to notice the parallels in our own lives. Whether our New Year hopes and plans have failed or stalled, spring reminds us that there's still time to start over again. Spring is here I woke up this morning to find the patio outside my kitchen door scattered with big, thick, clumps of fiery green moss, fallen debris from the guttering where the magpies are making their nests, the first hints that spring is on it’s way. Researchers are...
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    Writing a Diary Saved My Life
    24Mar

    Writing a Diary Saved My Life
    Jackee Holder
    creativity, wellbeing
    Soul
    Imagine getting to the end of your life and there's no record of who you are, where you've been, no trace of the range of emotions, feelings you’ve experienced at various points or stages of your life. What if your memory slowly melted into candy floss, too soft to recall the intricate, sometimes simple and other times significant details of your past life? Leaving you without hard evidence and data of what you’ve lived through, the obstacles you'd overcome and the success you'd achieved over the years? A point brought home in an advert I clipped out of a magazine for...
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