WILDLY GENTLE
Practical programmes, honest writing and a little room to think.
For the mind that won’t switch off, the conversation you keep putting off, and the pressures of looking after everyone—including yourself.
Explore online programmes you can work through at your own pace, journals to help you put things into words, and artwork that makes you pause. You’ll also find honest writing about life, work, relationships and the wonderfully ridiculous business of being human.
Created by Andrew Murphy, drawing on experience in leadership, working life and having a busy brain of his own.
Things worth thinking about for your wellbeing
Most of us spend a lot of time pretending we’re more certain than we are.
We overthink things we can’t control. We stay too long in situations that make us unhappy. We work harder when what we probably need is rest. We tell people we’re fine because explaining the truth feels like too much effort. We confuse being busy with moving forward and sometimes spend years trying to solve problems that were never really ours to solve.
I write about those things.
Not because I’ve figured them out, but because I’m interested in the gap between how life looks from the outside and how it actually feels when you’re living it.
That might mean writing about overthinking, relationships, fatherhood, pressure, work, leadership, wellbeing, bad habits, difficult conversations or the strange ways people try to make sense of themselves and each other.
Some of those ideas become books. Some become artwork. Some remain articles. The format matters less than the feeling behind them.
If something here makes you stop and think, “I’ve felt that,” then it has probably done what I wanted it to do.
That’s really what Wildly Gentle is about.
Not sure where to start?
Pick the thing that feels closest and read from there.
Friendship, loneliness and carrying on when you'd rather not.
Being a dad, having one, and the family stories that stay with you.
Losing my dad, and what I'd say to him now.
Caring for people without carrying everything for them.
Difficult bosses, switching off and leading people well.
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Online programmes for when life gets a bit much
An overthinking brain, a difficult conversation, everyone else’s problems becoming yours. These programmes give you space to untangle what’s going on, with honest reflections and practical exercises you can work through at your own pace.
Ready to go a little deeper? Use the button below to explore our Wildly Gentle Programmes.
The five programmes
Work through them at your own pace.
Seven short days to get out of your own head.
For anyone who has become far too good at looking after everybody else.
Say what matters, listen well and stay human.
Make work matter without letting it become everything.
For managers and team leaders who want to support their people.
I’m Andrew Murphy, the writer and artist behind Wildly Gentle. My background is in construction, health and safety, leadership and operational management. I’m also a dad with a busy brain who can give a five-minute conversation three days of unnecessary attention.
Wildly Gentle brings those worlds together through honest writing, artwork, journals and practical online programmes about life, work and being human—from overthinking and relationships to difficult conversations and leading people.
I draw on professional experience, personal stories and my own mistakes, with enough humour to keep things human. My aim is to create something you recognise yourself in, with something useful to take away.
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