Your Dead Ends Are Sacred Ground
I want to hear about your dead ends. The forks in your road. The moments where you followed each delightful breadcrumb, looked for signs, pulled
Tag: empowerment
3 Reasons Why Your Writing Feels Stuck
“Blogging just seems kindof easy for me, you know?” I told my friend over the phone, explaining my predicament. After years of creating positive social
7 Questions to Ask When You’re Feeling Jealous
“People want you to be happy.Don’t keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wingsand free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone
I Wish You Rainbows: A Prayer for Self Acceptance
Today I wish you rainbows. I wish you the bravery to take a deep breath and forgive yourself for being so you, so human, so
Three Steps to Find Your Voice
Have you ever scrambled around trying to find your glasses, only to realize twenty minutes later they were perched on your head the whole time?
People Want to Support You
Have you ever thought about just how supported you are? Let’s take a moment to inhale, exhale, and consider this in full color: Have you
Your Art Is Not Meant For Everybody
Your art is not meant for everybody. Some people just aren’t going to like it. And the sooner you can accept this + embody this
Back to Our Roots
“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” ~ Edgar Degas My very first blog post was the best
Shedding Our Cocoons
“And then I said to the world: You will see me. You will hear me. I am not afraid. — The day I left my damn cocoon so I
Start Before You Know Your Target Market
“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the
Forge Your Own Comeback
“…if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping
Hover in the Hesitation
Since my last blog post, I moved away from Illinois (where I have spent my entire life), and I’m writing this post from the couch of my
Listen To Your Impulses
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.” ~Sylvia Plath Epiphanies. Insights.
Taking Our Talents Seriously
“What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it
Forgiving Ourselves
It occurred to me that I haven’t made this life-altering announcement on my blog yet: I published my first book! I planned on promoting Robot
Robot Coconut Trees: A Creative Timeline of My First Book
Every creative project has a backstory, a truth behind the curtain, a core reality that deviates from the flashy final product we see at the
Calm: A Soulful Book Review
Every now and then, I think about changing my blog and featuring completely different topics. There are so many pieces and people that make up
Let It Be
Let it be easy. Let it happen slower than you wanted, let it frustrate you, let the existential realizations hit you in the produce
When Fear Goes Into Hiding
Lately I feel like I’m up-leveling, on the cusp of everything, gaping wide-eyed at my life as it finally starts to resemble the life I
Darkness, Moths, and Flinging Ourselves Towards the Light
When I was 14, I had a dream about a moth. In my dream I chase the moth around a white room with a fly
The Story of Starting My Blog (dream now, begin now)
This week, I celebrate two anniversaries in my creative life: Four years ago, my mentor and I created a farmers market. We spent several years
Peacocks, Holy Gratitude, and Almost Getting Hit by a Bus
I often say “You know what — I could get hit by a bus tomorrow,” as a way of portraying the immediacy of acting on
Magic, Pink Dresses, and Reviving Our Sense of Wonder
In June 1998, my elementary school hired a magician to perform tricks at an assembly during the last week of school. My second grade class
Blossoming, Doubting, and Writing a Book
I announced last month on my facebook page that I am self-publishing an e-book this year, to be released on October 13th 2015. Since then,
The “I Don’t Have Time” Lie
One of the biggest lies we tell ourselves is “I don’t have time.” We say this constantly. We say it to the fundraisers who wear
Don’t Put On The Brakes
So you’ve hit a moment in your life when everything is falling into place. You landed the boyfriend, the job, the apartment, the publicity opportunity
My Liebster Award and Shining the Light on Others
Rachel Stolzman (an amazing writer at rachelstolzman.wordpress.com and author of The Sign for Drowning) nominated my blog for a “Liebster Award.” I didn’t even know
Au Revoir 2014: A Tribute
I try to imbue all of my blog posts with a sense of timelessness – I purposely leave out the daily drudgery and updates about
Dear Dancer: You Are Enough
In my post Fierceness and Bite, I wrote about my desire to write a letter to young dancers — a letter that would glow with
Being the Light in the Cold Messy Darkness
“Travel Light, Live Light, Spread Light, Be The Light.” – Yogi Bhajan Sometimes spirituality is easy. The Law of Attraction works. We pray for
Chile Peppers, Trust, and Cutting Through: On Writing my First Book
“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to
Fierceness and Bite: Honoring the Details of Our Lives
“We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers must think, this
For Writers Who Don’t Know What to Write About
“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” – Andy Warhol My blog has been frozen in
Holy and Messy: Letting Your Life Purpose Find You
“They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life
Our Common Molten Human Core – Where Expression Meets Service
“If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.” – Alice Walker I unfollowed my favorite self-help author on my
Swimming, Surrendering, and Shining: Lessons After Two Years of Blogging
“Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment
You Are Not A Broken Toy
You are not a broken toy. Your arm is not imprinted with the bite marks of a brother or friend or dog or frazzled mother.
4 Truths That Every College Graduate Needs to Hear
Graduation season brightens my heart. When I walk into bookstores and see Oh The Places You’ll Go prominently displayed, I remember the excitement and hope
Dear You, Love Spirit: A Transformative Exercise
“Perhaps someday I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”
How Alive Are You Willing To Be?
“Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?” – Anne Lamott
How to Daydream
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” ― Edgar Allan Poe Unfocus your
Authenticity Meets the Little Puzzle Piece
“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” – May Sarton One winter when I was
The Joys of Being Passionate
“All the great saints, in all the traditions, are beings who live absolute passion.” – Daniel Odier When we meet new people, one of the
Stuckness and Revival
Everyone is a multifaceted expert who is talented in ways both celebrated and secretive, useful and quirky. I don’t know what people think I’m an
Sabotaging Ourselves
“Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” – E. E. Cummings
Unleashing Happiness
“We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly.” — Madeleine L’Engle
On Writing
“When I write, I feel like an armless legless man with a crayon in his mouth.” – Kurt Vonnegut On my daily and nightly
When You’re Holding onto Me
“Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can’t see the tiny outstretched
Reviving my Post-Grad Spirit
After seventeen years of endlessly sitting in classrooms, this jump from college senior to young professional is less glamorous than it sounds. People told me