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
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When a Friend Criticizes Your Writing
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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?
Bring Your Dreams to Life Training Series – Video 2
Welcome back to my three-part training series on bringing our creative dreams to life! Today we’re talking about how to move through self doubt and
You Don’t Have To Blow Their Minds
“I have written 11 books but each time I think ‘Uh-oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody, and they’re
Curious and Positive: Taking the Pressure Off Your Future
Do you ever feel like your arms are being stretched in two directions, caught in a tug of war between worlds? Like you used to
What Do You Really Need Right Now?
“I stopped explaining myself, because I learned that making decisions is never about doing the right thing or the wrong thing. It’s about doing the
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
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
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
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
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
At 23 – Passion, Peril, Confusion, Resurrection
“…It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer
Because We Love It
“I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time
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
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
Hello, dazzling world!
Several years back, I received a nudge of inner guidance to start a spirituality blog. It was 2009, I was a freshman in college, and