I love our pen pal friendship! May we always be silly and honest little women 💗❣️ happy to be filling the Gen Z friendship void for you, I promise to keep you young at heart x
I do completely agree - when you have a chronic illness and your life radically changes you do suddenly think you’re never going to organically meet people again like how you did before. I had similar feelings. And although it does change, it’s not necessarily a bad thing. You can form pen pal friendships with beautifully intelligent and warm people (you x) and wonderful new friendships can emerge. Appreciate you! Have fun in SA I can’t wait to hear about it xx
Awww Martha, I love our friendship too! Relationships are definiteliy different when you're chronically ill, but I find there's such care and intimacy too. I'm looking forward to writing you my next missive when things are less hectic xxx
Thanks for being so generous in sharing your reflections and directions. It’s given me so much cheerleading in a sense to carry on with my own work and to think about how I can bring my own chronic illness wisdom to my professional work, thank you for offering that bridge! :)
Emily I loved this edition. I'm so excited to hear your thoughts on South Africa. It's relationship with grief and trauma and hope and life is different from the UK. It really is an incredible place.
Oh! Thank you! I'm glad it was food for thought. I'm looking forward to diving in more to thinking with your work about that intersection :)
I love our pen pal friendship! May we always be silly and honest little women 💗❣️ happy to be filling the Gen Z friendship void for you, I promise to keep you young at heart x
I do completely agree - when you have a chronic illness and your life radically changes you do suddenly think you’re never going to organically meet people again like how you did before. I had similar feelings. And although it does change, it’s not necessarily a bad thing. You can form pen pal friendships with beautifully intelligent and warm people (you x) and wonderful new friendships can emerge. Appreciate you! Have fun in SA I can’t wait to hear about it xx
Awww Martha, I love our friendship too! Relationships are definiteliy different when you're chronically ill, but I find there's such care and intimacy too. I'm looking forward to writing you my next missive when things are less hectic xxx
Thanks for being so generous in sharing your reflections and directions. It’s given me so much cheerleading in a sense to carry on with my own work and to think about how I can bring my own chronic illness wisdom to my professional work, thank you for offering that bridge! :)
Thanks so much for your comment, Rachel, not least because it led me to your newsletter! This piece is giving me a lot to think about: https://rachelpiper.substack.com/p/the-right-to-emotionally-flood
Yes to all the entwining of our sick and professional selves. So much fertile potential in that untapped intersection xx
Emily I loved this edition. I'm so excited to hear your thoughts on South Africa. It's relationship with grief and trauma and hope and life is different from the UK. It really is an incredible place.
Thank you my love, and I am *so* tabling this for our next chat!