So it's not about the reality necessarily of how many things you have to do and I think both of those things can fluctuate.

Hi and welcome to episode 201 of art juice. This is honest, generous and humorous

conversations to feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me Louise Fletcher and me Alice Sheridan and this week we have a main topic which I suggested because I feel like it's my weakness and Alice's strength at the moment, which is the idea of feeling overwhelmed.

So we're going to get to that as our main topic and I'm sure Alice is going to solve everyone's problems and we're all going to feel as calm as she does by the end of this episode.

But before then, tell us about your week, which he told me before we started recording that you can't remember, so this could be.

I can't remember. I had to check last time we spoke and what's happened in between.

I feel like my memory is like a sieve at the moment. Yeah, all the days just

seem to fly by with not enough hours days or minutes in them, don't they? But I've had a

lovely time this week so Joe McCarthy, Joe at

Farrain on Instagram works with me in the membership as well as doing obviously her own business and we have an event to go to on Thursday.

So she came up to London and we spent the day together on Wednesday she came to the studio and I said to my husband we are going to be working sort of kind of and we we had one of those days like we didn't have an agenda I'd sort of written down some ideas of what I wanted to talk about, but she just arrived, we chatted, we went to the studio, we had lunch, we talked about our work, we talked about what feels good, we talked about what's working for each of us it wasn't

she was coming to work on the you know it was just time to talk really beyond zoom screen so after we'd got over the first

20 minutes of prodding each other and saying oh look you exist in real 3D it was just lovely and then at one point we said okay we should get the computers

there and do some proper work like with only an hour and a half to go and sort of

realized that we kind of covered everything that we wanted to talk about.

It was just lovely. It was very natural and relaxed and didn't feel at all worky and yet sometimes when things don't feel at all worky

I think is when most of the important work gets done that's what I want to say about that

and it's still kind of settling and then we had an event yesterday which invited Helen Perry to come to as well.

Some of you might know her from the just bloody Post-it podcast just because I thought it would be fun for three of us to go and it was supposed to be about kind of writing and your writing style and some of it was and some of it veered off a little bit. But again, you know, the good part was seeing somebody in real life, the talk that we had altogether afterwards in the pub.

There was a pub involved. There was a real pint in a real pub. I cannot tell you the last time that happened. I mean years ago. So it was it was really good, but I am a little bit in that stage where my brain is kind of like fizzing

fizzing with good things and fizzing with what feels like slight shifts but nothing has really landed yet and so yeah I don't really

have anything specific to report on that but yeah it feels like a good sigh. Yeah, you enjoy being out and about with people. It always energizes you. I saw your Instagram post and it was like Alice is on fire she's she's just so excited.

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