127. Poet Hugh Venables: How and why journalling is good for your well-being

Many of our podcast conversations have engaged with the idea of thinking, how to encourage, to change, to stop. This discussion is also about thinking but approaching it from an oblique angle. Journaling and poetry, two activities that involve getting thoughts out of ones mind and written down on paper.

Hugh Venables is a Yorkshire-based writer and poet. He is passionate about the power of words. A selection of his poetry is available at  hughvenablespoetry.com 

 

You can find a transcript of this conversation over on our substack:

https://open.substack.com/pub/lockedupliving/p/hugh-venables-transcript-the-alchemy?r=216eb0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

 

Until his retirement, for twenty-five years he ran his own successful marketing communications and graphic design company in York.

 

Married with four grown-up children, Hugh enjoys bird-watching and walking, especially across the North of England. He is also a keen amateur horologist. His 'reflections' blog, about clocks, time and life in general, can be found at www.theclock-shop.co.uk/reflections/

 

Hugh can be contacted via comments@hughvenablespoetry.com

 

We, and Hugh would welcome feedback about his episode.