‘Beautiful and light-handed’ Sharon Blackie
‘I love Caro’s writing, so intimate and fluid’ Lily Dunn
This month my Psychologies column is about unfurling.
I often write about light and dark - in the years since I moved to Northumberland I have slowly developed a love affair with darkness. Having been instinctively drawn to bright lights since I was a little girl it has taken me time to learn to embrace what I cannot see, trust what is hidden. Now I find I have to adjust to the longer days and reluctantly say goodbye to my cloak of darkness.
In Twelve Moons I wrote about exposure to brutal systems, to the glare of my own emerging identity and the vulnerability sometimes connected to life lived a little on the edge. As winter receded I found it hard to be physically exposed alongside the emotional splaying I was immersed in.
But these days I am less scared, ever so slightly more comfortable inside my skin and my head, and this, along with the improved health of a sweet daughter, has allowed me to make my life bigger.
‘I wonder if this phase of my life is a microcosm of spring: weeks, months, years where I emerge blinking into the light…I feel brittle and bold, wobbly and eager…time to embrace this unfurling and try something new…’
I’d love to hear about your experiences of new beginnings and reinventions. 🔥
I love spring for the flowers, the revival and the new light it brings - it is my favourite season and i feel it and enjoy it every year as for the first time ❤️
So happy to hear your daughter is doing better Caro