Welcome to Busy Corner Books. The umbrella for Writing Well & ARCLIGHT TM: Certified, Accredited and Registered Continuing Professional Development and Reflective Formation Courses.

Why Busy Corner Books?

Testimonials

You have a gentle quiet spirit. But I can feel the strength when you're near. There's something about your faith in people.
D. Horncastle. 

Paula, you help me feel comfortable in my own skin, you've such a gentle calming voice.
S. Lincoln. 

It has been a pleasure working with you. Paula, you always bring out the best in me.
S. West Yorkshire.

Our Courses


People come here for...

✔️ personal or creative growth

✔️ professionals looking for effective tools they can try for themselves, and use ethically in practice with clients

Many come here for both.

Discerning our skills can be the key to a deeper confidence and testing of our thoughts and feelings in a safe, confidential space.

Process Process Process

Your process is central to our work

The Power of Process 

Process honours the individuals' journey. It does not deny the value of faith, prayer, meditation, support, and shared discernment. We are reminded God (who we believe to be our Creator) knows every single hair on our head and has made each person for a specific purpose. People are not made in bulk, and neither should they be treated this way. Sometimes a gift is already shining like a beacon, even while that person is quietly stood in the corner washing up the pots.

At Busy Corner Books, our courses and follow-up contact, focus on your unique individuality. Not how we get from A to Z. But your internal process; the nuts and bolts of your experience. The true person, the true you, before the world came along with information overload, peer pressures and social constraints to help pollute our thought process and decision making.

Working together with Busy Corner Books, we are able to carefully use sensitive and thoughtful engagement as a pathway to understand your true capabilities. A process often called discernment; reaching your hidden skills, strengths, gifts - and, true formation of 'you'.


Process-based writing focuses on the reflective experience rather than the production of polished work. Through guided prompts and structured reflection, writing becomes a tool, a channel, for exploring thoughts, emotions, and emerging insight.

Used carefully and ethically, this approach can support deeper self-awareness, reflective practice, and meaningful personal and professional development. Our work can encourage clarity, honest reflection, and develop the capacity to listen more attentively - both to oneself, and others.

For growth

You may be looking for a way to:

  • untangle your thoughts and feelings bringing greater clarity

  • begin writing again - or finally complete what you have started

  • rediscover motivation and renew your strengths

  • keep a journal in a way that feels meaningful and sustainable

  • write more freely, without constantly looking back

  • loosen old rules that have made writing feel rigid or fearful

  • explore poetry and expressive writing as a way of release

  • feel heard, acknowledged, and grounded - more fully yourself in the process

  • stretch within your personality and discover your true abilities

  • discern your path in life and work

  • go out into the world - work differently, live differently, engage differently, strengthen your faith differently

"Every person carries a spark. My work is simply to help you fan this into light — with clarity, compassion, and a faith-shaped wisdom, honouring your specialness and individuality. ...you don't need perfect words, only true ones" Paula Anne Thwaite.