The most popular (not including Alexander Skarsgard lightly touching your back as he walks past you while you’re wearing a backless dress)
Because it’s that time of year…
Hello! I thought I’d share with you some of the lost read Emily Writes Weekly posts in case you missed them.
I’m having a break at the moment but I’m looking forward to being back with you soon. I was hoping it would be next week but we are all very sick so it won’t be.
Anyway - here are the most read…actually the various meditations paid subscribers are sent are the most read but I excluded those for the purpose of this list. Please excuse typos. I’m on my phone, it’s a long story, I’ll tell you in a few weeks x
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Number one is: The Man
I interviewed a relationship coach and it was terrifying.
“What must it be like to be Jake? I can only go by what it feels like to spend 25 minutes on the phone to him.”
Number two is: Some Brains
“We can run and run and run and run and run and feeling nothing but the running until, so close to being out of breath, chest aching, ribs breaking, heart bleeding, someone comes in and puts both hands on your shoulders and says: Stop.
One.
Thing.
At.
A.
Time.
And someone takes your hand.
And there’s a sliver of sunshine.”
Number three is: In the end....
My letter to the future for the In Your Dreams: Letters Aloud salon.
“In the end, the end of the world wasn’t anything like they’d expected it to be.”
Number four is: Stop being such a shit parent
“Today, I’d like to provide a guest post because I know I am not a parenting expert. I am just a mother actually parenting in the year 2022. Not like Steve Stevenson who is a neurologicaleducationator, a term that isn’t made up if that’s what you’re thinking. He’s also a child development specialist, a juvenile expansion coordinator, a youth improvement consultant, a minor advancement authority, and a kid renovation master.
Steve is a grandfather, a pop, a father, a gramps, a great-grandfather, a grandmother, and a dad. He has no neuroscience qualifications or science qualifications but shhh…
Steve is not judgemental in the way he judges you for your shit parenting and that’s why I invited him here to use this platform to share some no-nonsense, nonsense advice.”
Number five is: About last night....
It’s a post detailing the behind the scenes details of my book launch including what it’s like being on The Project and getting bumped on Breakfast TV and all the other things that happened on my trip.
Number six is: When you find out your friend is a sexual predator - Grooming, truth and lies.
“I’m going to talk about a sexual predator in this post. I do not go into any detail about what he did to his victims. But I do talk about grooming. Please take care. I also want to be clear up front that while I’ve found the aftermath of what the person I know did traumatising, it is nothing like what his victim or victims have been through and to them I send all of my care and love. - Emily”
Number seven is: Christopher Luxon knows the truth about mediocrity
“There is a moment in Christopher Luxon’s latest media interview where he looks incredulously at the reporter as if to say - It’s like you don’t know what we’re about.”
Number eight is: Shein, The Fat Spectrum and The Boots Theory
“This is I suppose, a very long way of saying that I am quitting Shein but I also wish we had more options so everyone could quit Shein. But - it’s not that easy.
It worries me that those who will get lectured on social media about the need to boycott Shein will be those who are low-income and fat. And those social influencers doing $150 hauls of tank tops will be ignored. It is almost always those with the least privileges who face the most criticism online.”
Number nine is: How fragile we are...
“Content warning: This post is about the death of my friend - she died in a crowd crush. It’s about grief and pain and it’s pretty raw. I don’t apologise for that, but I do want all of you, who I care very much about, to take care of you and make a decision about whether you want to read it. Life is tough right now, and it’s OK to opt out of reading things that you think might upset you too much.”
Number ten was: Behind the story...
“What goes unpublished and the angst behind the big ones...”
I want to thank you for your support this year. It has meant absolutely everything to me. I can’t put into words how much gratitude I have for every one of you.
This has been a huge and intense year for us and the past week has not been great. The fact that every now and then I get a little alert saying I have a new subscriber lifts my spirits so much. Thank you x thank you x thank you x
See you soon. Emily ❤️
Thank you so much for becoming a paid subscriber. It’s truly the best Christmas present for me and my whānau and I’m super grateful x
