Happy Valentine’s Day! Let’s talk love affairs. Not the human kind, because those can so often be disappointing, right? No, let’s talk real love—our love affairs with our creativity. With our writing. I was doing a meditation this morning and the meditation teacher read a poem. It was about...
Writing “success” doesn’t happen overnight. We all tend to get caught up in such a narrow view of success, and specifically this idea of it happening "overnight." Writers definitely experience this. We see the people on the NY Times bestseller list, hear about the new writer who got a...
How do you know if you have a creative block? It sounds like a simple concept. A variation of writer’s block, even. But where writer’s block is usually defined as unable to make progress on a writing project, I think of creative blocks a little differently. When the simple thought of putting a pen...
I’m coming in with some mindset talk today. We've all lived through some stuff, right? Stuff that was less than optimal. Or, flat out bad. The traumatic (big "T" or little “t”) experiences we’ve had. The treatment we’ve endured, the relationships that have threatened to break us, the life events...
It’s one thing to get clear on our WHY when it comes to wanting to establish a creative practice. It’s another thing completely to figure out the HOW. I’m not alone here, am I? I was born knowing I was meant to create. And like a good little girl, I did all the logical things that would help me...
Before you can have a creative practice, you need to figure out WHY you want one. Because if you want it for the wrong reasons, it’s not going to come as easy as it should. For me, the why was easy. I was born with a love for stories. I demanded to be read to every day when I couldn’t read; when...
People hear the word creativity and think it has to mean “official” creative acts like writing, painting, drawing, pottery—creative careers. It doesn’t. As one of my greatest teachers, Louise Hay, always said, you can be creative in the way you make your bed, or cook dinner, or throw a party. You...
I posted something on social media last week about a difficult moment I had with a family member recently, a moment that brought up old fears, stories and patterns that I’d been working on dismantling for so long. The post got responses from people who expressed similar feelings of holding too...
