WILDLY GENTLE
Books, words and artwork about being human.
Life, work, relationships, parenthood, overthinking, pressure and everything we pretend we've got figured out. Wildly Gentle is a collection of writing, books, artwork and ideas created by Andrew Murphy about the messy, funny, difficult and meaningful business of being human.
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.
The human side of things
Being human is harder than we like to admit.
We overthink things that haven't happened. Carry things that aren't ours. Struggle to say no. Lose perspective. Put ourselves under ridiculous amounts of pressure and occasionally wonder why we're so bloody tired.
Wildly Gentle Programmes take some of those very human struggles and turn them into something practical.
No life-changing promises. No pretending I've got everything figured out.
Just short, thoughtful programmes designed to help you understand yourself a little better, get out of your own head and make life feel slightly less complicated.
People
How we think, react, communicate and make sense of what is happening around us.
Pressure
What changes when life gets busy, uncertain or difficult, and how people behave when they feel stretched.
How we affect each other
Leadership, relationships, culture, trust, psychological safety and all the small behaviours that shape how other people experience us.
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I'm Andrew Murphy — a writer, author, artist and someone who has spent a large part of his working life trying to understand why people and organisations behave the way they do.
My professional background is in construction, health and safety, leadership and operational management. Outside of that I've always written, drawn, questioned things and probably thought about life considerably more than is useful.
Wildly Gentle grew from those two worlds colliding.
I write about overthinking, relationships, parenthood, pressure, wellbeing, work, leadership and the things people experience but don't always know how to explain. Sometimes those ideas become books.
Sometimes articles. Sometimes artwork. Sometimes practical tools for people and workplaces.
There isn't a grand philosophy behind it. Mostly I am interested in creating things that make somebody stop for a second and think: "I've felt that."
Say hello — questions about the books, artwork, writing, collaborations or professional work are all welcome.