Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.1.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # AndreaHobbs.co.uk ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://andreahobbs.co.uk/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Soul Circle - a journey of spiritual exploration - last Tuesday each month 7-8.30pm](https://andreahobbs.co.uk/soul-circle) - Soul Circle is a monthly opportunity for coming together to explore your spiritual 'soul journey' so far - whatever that may mean for you. This is a space where everything is welcome - all beliefs and queries about life from a wider spiritual perspective. - [WILD WAY RETREAT 16-19th April 2026](https://andreahobbs.co.uk/wild-way-retreats-2026) - Blossoming You is a 3-night retreat for any woman who feels she’s at a fork in the road, or at a threshold – because of menopause, loss, or other life-change. Are you seeking a space to rest into the rhythm of becoming? If this resonates deep inside your mind, heart, body and soul, then this offering is for you. - [My journey to death](https://andreahobbs.co.uk/my-journey-to-death-death-cafe) - It appears that most of us are born into this world in a physically binary state as boy or girl from a sex anatomy perspective and then stuff happens on our journey to death. Happiness, joy, sadness and upsets. Overwhelm, underwhelm, interest, and boredom. Sickness, malaise, OK-ness, and health. Loss, gain, flowing, and failing. It - [Sisters in Stitches - a monthly drop-in at Cotherstone Old Chapel Cafe and Shop](https://andreahobbs.co.uk/sisters-in-stitches-a-monthly-drop-in-at-cotherstone-old-chapel-cafe-and-shop) - Feel free to just come along with your own work in progress to sit and chat with others while you make. In the company of others we can find encouragement, inspiration, confidence, compassion, and adventure. Andrea always brings a small slow stitch project for you to follow, and even with little or no stitching experience - [stitching to stillness](https://andreahobbs.co.uk/stitching-to-stillness) - I've been stitching, knitting, painting, and crafting things since I was around 6 years old. I trained as an art therapist 30 years ago. I've been learning about meditation for most of that 30 years, on and off. Sometimes I've felt accomplished, and often I've felt incompetent and frustrated. In my late 50s I'm learning - [Wild things...safety and balance](https://andreahobbs.co.uk/wild-things-and-seeking-safety) - Recently I took a trip. Well actually I took a couple of trips, and they were quite different. So different it's taken me a while to process and integrate them as being real, especially coming so close together. One was planned, and one out-of-the-blue. In early May I took a woodland Quest - disappearing into - [Wild Ways for 2024](https://andreahobbs.co.uk/wild-ways-for-2024) - I just tried to entice the dog out into the (very) cold, windy and wet day here in Teesdale, Co Durham. But he’s not having any of it. So I’m settling down to write instead, wrapped up in hat, blanket, scarf and two jumpers: Knitted Up against the cold in the house! Here we are - [Growing up - The Knitters Way](https://andreahobbs.co.uk/growing-up-the-knitters-way) - I've been knitting and crocheting since I was around 7 or 8, and it's still my very favourite thing to do. My 1st knitted project was a round-necked jumper made with a 1960s stiff nylon yarn that mum had made something with, tired of, unravelled and discarded. Seduced by the vivid colour, I re-used it, - [I'm a wild green leaf](https://andreahobbs.co.uk/im-a-wild-green-leaf) - I'm a wild green leaf up high blowing in the wind. I have well-defined veins and the water of life flows gently through me now. Pulsing and singing. When I was growing, it hurt as the flow pushed its way through, bursting me into fullness, vivid greenness; and in my fragility I am easily torn, - [It's raining...](https://andreahobbs.co.uk/andreahobbs-co-uk-its-raining) - Sometimes the weather reflects how we feel, doesn't it? Although perhaps the reverse is true - that the weather affects how we feel? Pathetic Fallacy. Thomas Hardy was a master at it. Today I am feeling rained on inside. Outside, the sheep are sheltering along the wall back. The chickens are in the coop. My - [A new relationship!](https://andreahobbs.co.uk/a-new-relationship) - I'm starting a new relationship with Failure. No don't panic, I'm not ditching the lovely Robert! These days I don't spend a lot of time in my car, which is pretty much the only time I have the radio on and hear anything about what's happening out in the world. But yesterday I was driving - [What is success then?](https://andreahobbs.co.uk/what-is-success-then) - People (including me) talk a lot about how we create our own reality as a reflection of our inner core beliefs. On a simplistic level: I believe I'm not good enough and the world hates me, so I will experience life as hateful and I will fail; or I believe I am good enough and - [New Beginnings](https://andreahobbs.co.uk/new-beginnings) - Here I am launching my website and a Blog in July 2023. Something I tried to do back in 2022, or was it 2021 even? That attempt failed. Why? Because I was trying too hard? Because I wasn't ready? A timing thing with the planets not being aligned? Maybe I was still fighting too many ## Pages - [Home](https://andreahobbs.co.uk/) - Creating mending spaces with you Home Events Blog Home Events Blog I offer a blended approach that will support you in your self-exploration and souls’ growth. 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