Hello, and happy 2022! I hope you’ve been having a restful, exciting January full of all the things you like. I’m quite excited to tackle this year, as I’m planning for lots of good things to come. The Trans Guide to Mental Health and Well-Being is just under three months away from being released! It … Continue reading 2022 Plans for The Book and Beyond
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I'm now nine months in to writing the trans and non-binary guide to good mental health! I signed my contract in early November 2019 and started writing in earnest in January 2020, after taking time to wrap my head around what I had to do (plus celebrate the holidays). Although my productivity took a hit … Continue reading Progress
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If you're a regular reader, you will have noticed that I didn't post any public blogs from mid-March to mid-June. In March I managed to come down with the flu, shortly followed by norovirus. Then, when I'd just about recovered, England went into lockdown due to COVID-19. It was a weird time to try to … Continue reading Lockdown Nourishment
Meet My Coach My coach is Gem Kennedy, a transformational coach and Emotional Freedom Technique (otherwise known as 'tapping') practitioner. They're also an activist, ex-dieter, queer person, parent to free-range children, podcaster, and zinester. If all of that makes them sound really cool, that's because they are. Image description: Gem, who has plum-coloured wavy hair … Continue reading Transforming Through Coaching, with Gem Kennedy
The Premise I've wanted to get hold of a Body Love Box for a really, really long time. The creator of the Body Love Box, body positivity legend Lindley Ashline, describes the Body Love Box as a fat-positive, LGBTQIAP+-affirming, intersectional monthly subscription box that's designed to improve your body image while supporting marginalised artists. It … Continue reading Body Love Box Review
So I failed NaNoWriMo (again). I didn’t make it anywhere near the 50,000 words needed to ‘win’, but I don’t feel like I lost. Over November I’ve managed to write the book’s introduction chapters, and to further solidify what the other chapters will include. Here are the chapters I’ll be working on for the next … Continue reading Book Updates, NaNoWriMo, and Probable Chapter Outlines
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Last year I failed kind of spectacularly. This year, I'm going all in. It's National Novel Writing Month again, where thousands of people attempt to write a 50,000 word novella in November. I've competed several times but this time is different, as I'll be using the opportunity to work on a piece of non-fiction that … Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2019
Katy Lees - Therapist & Author 