How to Reconnect with Your Creative Voice
Hey beautiful friends, I have been stubbornly clinging to the idea that each of my blog posts has to be a standalone piece of art
Tag: free spirit
I Trust This Day (A Prayer To Start Your Morning)
Dear God/Spirit/Universe/Higher Power/Life, I trust this day. I trust this space where I am standing, and I know that I’m exactly where I need to
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
Hope and Light for 2017
“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
Don’t Think: When Writer’s Block Meets Self Doubt
I have dozens of half-written blog posts that linger on my computer, posts on beautiful topics like post-graduation devastation, the insecurities that emerge in our
Anxiety, My Teacher: Gentle Strategies to Look Fear in the Eye
There is a frantic young child inside me who screams and shakes. Her name is Anxiety, and I can feel her quivering in my chest.
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.”
Au Revoir, 2013: A Tribute
I love the fresh start of a new year. Every December I daydream in the realm of possibility – I envision the person I want
So You Feel Called to Write: A Compassionate Creative Manifesto
“I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.” – Mary Oliver I have spent
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
Tending to the Flock
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is
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