Writer Health

Do you suffer from physical pain relating to your writing life?

Are you struggling with back pain, weight gain related to sedentary working, anxiety, depression, sleep problems, neck pain, eye strain, stress, loneliness, digestive issues, or Repetitive Strain Injury?

These are the most common issues reported by writers and if you struggle with any of them, you are not alone.

Writing is not a physically healthy job, but if you want a long-term writing career, then you need to look after your body.

Joanna Penn and Dr Euan Lawson talk about their own experiences with pain and health issues, and give some hints on how they have changed their own lives for the better.

Feeling overwhelmed? Panicked?
Frustrated by trying to juggle life, writing and the business of being an author?

Don’t worry, you are not alone. Author Overwhelm is a common and not unsurprising side-effect of being an author today.

Beat Author Overwhelm with this informative, honest and
practical guide that’s full of tips and techniques to become more focused and less stressed. Together, we’ll help you form an action plan that’ll help you manage your time, social media, marketing and actually getting those words written.

The SPA Girls (SPA = Self Publishing Authors) are Cheryl Phipps, Wendy Vella, Trudi Jaye and Shar Barratt. Together, they host a popular weekly podcast, The SPA Girls Podcast, that features an honest, raw and often hilarious take on their own self-publishing adventures. Their mission is to deliver advice, resources, interviews and self-publishing best practices to help fellow authors succeed in this exciting new world.

For inspiration, advice and full podcast episodes, visit us at SpaGirlsPodcast.

Get More Done In Less Time!

You can either manage time or have it master you.

You can get more done or let your schedule overwhelm you.

You can achieve more of your dreams or let them float on by on clouds of inefficiency.
It’s your choice.

In this article James Scott Bell will present to you powerful time management tools that will increase your ability to get the right things done when you need them done.

Burnout is a real condition that many just ignore. "Chill out. Relax." But that is the worst advise ever given to a woman who is stressed out in the extreme.

This book talks about the real reasons why women suffer from burnout (with some real science behind it). And real solutions and solid advice is given from a set of twin sisters who know from first-hand experience what it is like to be burnt out! And the book is funny too!

Links are provided to the paper version and the Audible version. (I couldn't stop laughing when listening to the sisters narrate their own book. Their passion for the subject came through so strongly.)

This book is not about whether or not if you, as a writer, need to quit writing, but it's rather a set of preconceived ideas that we might have about writing and the writing business that are limiting our ability to move forward. We need to quit believing in the things that aren't working for us!

The latest book from Joanna Penn is all about the gentle reminders on how we can't do it all. We need to focus on the tasks that we enjoy as a writer and look at other strategies to do the rest. And if that means that we don't publish a new book every month, then that's exactly what it means.

Writing is too important for it to lose the joy that brought it to us in the first place.

In this book, Joanna Penn joins up with Mark Leslie Lefebvre to give you a little insight into how they have managed to reduce the stress and become relaxed authors.