:: I Like This Wu-Wu Book

I know. Maybe you already know this about me, but I really am a little bit wu-wu. I’m into intuition, hunches, the possibility that there are other things at play apart from my own focus and determination. I’m like that, ya know? I even have these. OMG. Cray!

Still. I’m not airy fairy. I’m more the eyes-narrowed, heart open version of wu-wu. I’m not handing it all over to fate and seeing what happens. I’m defo about making things happen myself, as much as possible. Yep.

(Interestingly, there was a bit of wu-wu on the weekend at Big Hearted Business, but it too was the non-airy-fairy kind.)

It’s funny, you know, because sometimes good old-fashioned-slap-around-the-chops common sense can seem a bit wu-wu. ‘Do what you love?!’ That’s wu wu! ‘Be your best self?!’ Wu wu off!  Yet this stuff is actually really at the heart of who we are. It seems so basic to think like this (because it often is) that we balk at its simplicity. Perhaps because many of us are inclined to verge towards cynicism and ‘I-don’t-suffer-fools’, we tend to make things way more complicated than the need to be and we don’t really trust ourselves, a lot of the time. We are prone to tie things up in various knots to keep things ‘safe’, when really if we untied them and had a look at what was actually there, we’d find something quite workable, non-scary and less bunchy even. Don’t you think?

When I say wu-wu, I’m really talking about paring things back to this simple un-bunchy best. And when I say airy-fairy, I really mean that best with some glitter, dreamcatchers, lace, crazy eyes and crystals attached (which is not really my kind of wu!)  I guess I’m more into the Patti Smith kind of wu. Rather than the Stevie Nicks/Jewel type.

Anyhoo, I am explaining all this just as a precursor to telling you about this great wu-wu book I bought. I think you will like it. Granted it has some airy-fairy dotted about the place, but if you put on your wu-wu-coloured glasses you can glean heaps of pearlers from every single page.

It’s called Self Care For Life. (If I was more wu-wu I would have called my own up-coming book something like that. But I’m not. So I called my own version of a how-to-you manual: THE FRIENDLY SOCIETY. )

I am acutely aware that some people have a wu-wu filter that does not allow any of that frilly love-me-do language. Self care? Schmelf care! But I am a little bit into that kind of language myself, and this book jumped off the shelf/schmelf for me. I was wandering about the bookshop and I saw it, picked it up, glanced at one page and just went ‘Yep!’ That’s non wu-wu speak for ‘this is my kind of book’.

My wu-wu intuition knew in a heartbeat that it should come home with me. If you’ve ever read the book Simple Abundance this is a bit like that but with heaps of extra stuff and perhaps less of the wu. In case that matters to you.

Anyhoo, I wanted to tell you about it because I think it’s awesome. It’s split into days of the week – a day for each page – and there are 365 of them. Each day is sorted into Mind, Body & Spirit and has different things you can pay attention to for each of those. If this were my less-wu-wu book I’d be calling those things Good Feelings, Good Health, Good Times, but Mind, Body, Spirit is totally tried and true. I get that. It’s wu. My point is that this book is actually very practical and not too rainbow-y. It’s not too wu.

I think you should get this book if you are into focusing on being the best kinda person that you can be. (I am sharing daily bits and bobs from it on my Facebook page if you wanna glean a bit more info first.)

In other news:

I made myself a new website! Shazam!
I am teaching PomPoms on the weekend. Come along!
I am teaching FLOWERS on Friday! Come along!

x Pip

NB: Not a sponsored post! I just like this helpful book!