Since I have been on this career break, I’ve lightly touched on how much I am finding out about myself quite frequently. It may seem like I am exaggerating but having the space to just think out loud, absorb my surroundings, look up into the sky and the trees has given me a huge amount of freedom that I didn’t know I was missing. I am so proud that I have now written this book.
Typically, my days were scheduled to the end, and my daughters of course by their curious nature never complied with bedtimes, but wake-up times and open-mindedness to engage with others is something that I am proud to see in them grow every day. I am thankful that lockdown hasn’t impacted this. The way they intently listen and accept others so openly regardless of who they are, age demographic or language is also another influence to the book as they are the women of the future.
All the personality assessments I have taken, I am a strong extrovert but I didn’t realise how much I would value my own company too. I didn’t realise how many great ideas I had when I was surrounded by many others I am in awe of who have such strong, super ideas that my desire to learn missed that entirely. Running this blog has given me a professional conversation point with others, but it also has opened my mind up to more of the emotions that make me a human being. I believe this is why I wanted to write the book ‘Women in Lockdown’ as being available has given me contact and time for friends that I wouldn’t have had if I was working full time absorbed in my day to day planning and schedules which despite my creative nature, I became obsessively good at.
‘Women in Lockdown’ is a short book detailing the impact lockdown has had to 6 women in the UK. I have had so many other women share their stories with me, and for that I am so grateful. Their stories, challenges and successes are all in my notes on my desk but also in my heart due to their candid honesty. I had to narrow the stories down, and I promise I didn’t use a decision matrix, I didn’t do a SWOT or PESTLE analysis as something I would have used at work. From all of these stories, I ended up choosing 6 that I felt I could really put their experiences in their own language and share their feelings in words that I knew they would use.
I hope you enjoy reading this book. It definitely gave me perspective on each of these women’s obligation or need to care for others over and above themselves. It showed me the sense of duty they had to be doing something, but more so there were some moments of freedom that is unexpected in their feelings. These stories are quick reads but hopefully the words within it show the importance of resilience in these individual women, but also the value in developing it further in women, men and children.
Please do leave me reviews on Amazon of what you think, but if you feel like writing to me with your story, I welcome that too as the discussion on how we may feel always reminds us of the achievements that we have unconsciously made. The Ebook is downloadable for free on Monday 29th March 2021 BST until Friday 2nd April or if you are a Kindle Unlimited User, you can download it as part of your subscription.
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