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Why I write (the My Writing Process blog tour!)
My friend Mary Montanye, author of the recently-published memoir Above Tree Line, tagged me in the My Writing Process blog tour and I’m so grateful. I absolutely adore talking to other writers about...
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Setting boundaries around your creative space: Part one
A conversation on one of our community calls for The Writer’s Circle (a wonderful group I’ve been involved with for a long time now, which supports me in my writing habit and process) got me thinking...
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Setting boundaries around your creative space: Part two
In Part One of this post, I wrote about how important it is to honor the transitions between our “creative space” and our time interacting with others. It’s recognizing those transitions (even if they...
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Knowing yourself: what words inspire you?
Here’s a super-simple journaling exercise that can be a quick way of reconnecting with ourselves. It’s also truly helpful for those times when we’re feeling really UNcreative. I once did this with a...
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Shaking up your creative habit
While it’s vital to have a regular habit of creating, I’ve been reminded over the past couple of weeks that it’s important that I don’t become too routine about my creative routine. I write...
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“I wrote to honor myself” ~ A conversation with memoirist Mary Montanye
Mary Montanye is the author of the memoir Above Tree Line, which I had the joy of reading recently. To quote her website, it’s “the story of one woman’s spiral downward into physical and mental...
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Happy Halloween + making room for your darkness
Halloween has long been my favorite holiday, and fall my favorite season. There is something about the fact that nature is in a beautiful process of going into a dormant state for the long winter...
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More sparkle, more ease: What will *you* welcome in 2015?
It’s easy to forget in this frenetic world that the deep well of connection to ourselves and to life is the soul of creativity. So I’m taking some time off from my usual routine this week to...
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Hearing my voice in a noisy world
my daily journaling station I grew up in a chaotic and noisy home. I’m not sure why it was this way — we were (and are) a loving family, and our propensity is more toward the introvert side of the...
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Bringing the joy back to your creative work
Recently, a writer friend and I had a great conversation about what to do during those periods when you feel like the joy has simply evaporated from your creative work (or your life!). The talk got me...
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Do you have a “most creative” time of day?
I got an email from a client the other day (and she gave me permission to share parts of it here). It was a joyful update — she’d finally hit on a workable process for doing the beautiful paintings...
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Avoiding the intimacy of creating
Publishing this post today, my heart is heavy with the news of the horrible events in Paris. A prayer for love and kindness in the world, and for each of us to remember that it starts with the way we...
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Permission to do it differently + last day to grab an Autumn Transition...
Scroll down to learn more about my Autumn Transition Coaching Sessions — the deadline to sign up is today! Sometimes (often) I get really, really attached to the way I’ve always done something. Like,...
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You only ever need to do one thing
Yesterday I was having one of those days where my mind spun with all that I was sure needed to be done. I sat at my kitchen table, staring out the window, trying frantically to access peace (as if...
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Are you pulling back enough to gain perspective? + special February coaching...
Scroll down to learn about my special coaching prices this month, in celebration of the Lunar New Year! One thing about my many, many years of journal-keeping is that certain patterns — truths about...
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Embracing the beauty of being on the fence
One of the most painful things we can experience, at times, is that feeling of being “on the fence.” We’re not quite at “yes”, but it doesn’t exactly feel like a “no” either. This can happen with a...
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When the ideal meets the real
One thing getting into my forties has shown me is that a lot of the “ideals” of my twenties and thirties haven’t truly meshed with “the real”. Now, when I say “the real” here, I’m not necessarily...
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How self-acceptance can help you move forward (when it all feels like too much)
I’m writing this blog post on my iPad, sitting cross-legged in a chair in my living room, wearing snowflake-printed pajama bottoms, a pajama top with horses on it that I’ve had for a million years,...
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Honoring your way of taking action in the world
In my “former life,” I did a lot of one-on-one tutoring of writers, both privately and through the creative writing program at Columbia College Chicago. A while back, I heard from one of these...
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Are you distracting yourself — from yourself?
One of the most life-changing books I had the great fortune to discover back in my twenties was Alice Miller’s The Drama of the Gifted Child. When we hear the term “gifted”, we often think of school —...
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