The Writing Desk Soul Sanctuary

17/05/2026

Do you ever lie awake at night for hours, unable to sleep, even after trying everything you can think of?

What if nature holds part of the antidote?

What if the wild spaces we pass by each day are quietly teaching us what is missing?

Nature does not force rest. It surrenders to rhythm. Each night it softens into stillness, and each morning it rises again.
Perhaps there is something within that silence trying to teach us, that rest cannot always be chased, controlled, or worried into existence.
Sometimes healing begins when we stop fighting the night and simply listen long enough to what the world around us has been showing us all along.

Cheryl x

17/05/2026

Sunday reflection of the day.

Look who I found in the woods today 🩷🙏

Return to the sacred path within yourself.
Release the heaviness carried in silence.
Let the old patterns dissolve through vibration.
Your soul remembers the way home.
Walk softly, speak truthfully, and allow your spirit to become whole again.

Cheryl x

16/05/2026

People often ask me how writing helps people heal emotionally or shift their life situations.
The answer is simple.
The words we write are part of our inner dialogue.
Once we can see what we are thinking and feeling, we become more present and aware of it.
The shift begins when our thoughts are no longer endlessly circling within us but are given direction, focus, and meaning.

Cheryl x

16/05/2026

Writing workshops for Wellness.

Our authentic voices are not found in how we speak, the words we choose, or how loudly we are heard. It lives far deeper than expression the medicine of the heart is often hidden within emotional wounds, carried quietly beneath awareness, unseen by most.

Our Authentic voice is not an achievement of the ego or measured by performance, volume, or how many listen it is a return inward into silence, stillness, and the places where we are no longer performing for the world.

This work is subtle and often invisible. It asks for a willingness to step away from noise, from recognition, from being seen, so that something more honest can be heard within.
In that quiet space, the deep feminine presence of the heart begins to speak the voice.

Today’s writing workshop is themed with the divine feminine in flowers, gently whispering to us through the energy of our chakras. It is here we begin to hear our authentic voices more clearly, and to notice the subtle barriers our nervous system holds to those quiet protectors that once kept us safe, and are now ready to soften into awareness.

Cheryl x

16/05/2026

Being the shepherd or shepherdess of our lives involves a skill to know correctly where we are within the crowd & to observe our surroundings.

Where are you?

Cheryl x
Cheryl Cook

16/05/2026

So grateful to be a part of this organisation it truly is a privilege. Come down today 10 - 2pm to hear more about how this invaluable charity and volunteers support people.

Cheryl x

We will be with our collecting tins in Northallerton this Saturday between 9 am and 2 pm.

This helps fund the running costs of our branch in Northallerton, which amount to about £2,000 per month and are solely met by generous local donations.

Your kind donations mean we can keep our support lines open. 🙏

If you would like to know more about Samaritans, come and have a chat with one of us on Saturday!

If you’re not around on Saturday, if you wish, you can make a donation to us by clicking the link: https://samaritanscommunity.enthuse.com/ccp/52e6b/fundraiser #!/
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16/05/2026

Do you sit still long enough to contemplate the calm, peace, and continuity of nature, and how nature’s wild spaces can gently shift our perspective on every situation we face?
Every new beginning asks us to trust ourselves enough to take one small step at a time.

Cheryl x
Photo credit Mike Walker

15/05/2026

This week's reflection is being open to receive, this means noticing the signs in nature and what they have to share with each of us.

Deep gratitude for my gifts today and the teachings.

The message speaks of balance, softness, and sacred union the feminine and masculine energies coming together in harmony rather than opposition. It reminds us to treat ourselves with gentleness, love, and reverence, just as we would hold a delicate flower petal. True beauty, growth, and inner peace arise when we nurture ourselves with softness rather than force.

Cheryl x

14/05/2026

Did you see Survive York on Look North last night?

The latest news, sport and weather for Yorkshire.

14/05/2026

If these red marks on the map of North Yorkshire were documented outbreaks of a virus, we'd be declaring a pandemic, we'd be in lockdown, we'd be in a national emergency.

But these red marks don't mark a virus...

They mark the reported incidents of s3xual violence across the region between October 2023 to September 2024.

Just one year.

And only those reported to the police.

Local artists, Lucy Churchill Stonecarver and Make Your Mark created Shame Ends Here to show the realities of s3xual violence in our county.

And yet - despite being able to prove that our services help those who have been subjected to SV - our waiting list is currently closed...

What can you do?
💚You can write to your local MP and ask for specialist services like ours to receive strategic, long-term funding and investment.
💚Advocate for survivors and services that deliver support. Share the realities of the scale and the impact.
💚You can fundraise or donate.

14/05/2026

Divine timing is a concept we learn from nature's wild spaces.

A flower does not force itself open, it opens when conditions are right. In the same way, healing and transformation happen when we create space, gentleness, and trust within ourselves.

Cheryl x