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You know how it feels when you’ve poured your all into something for so long that you’ve forgotten how and why? All of your creativity, control, values, thoughts, hopes, words, and creative efforts into one project, one task, and you can no longer even see all of that anymore. This is how I felt last…
This is me beginning to Let go of the idea that my words are worthless I asked myself in my journal, “What if you stopped asking/telling the story about how your words are worthless?” As my recent writing Substack guru Dan “the Man” Blank asks, how do you find yourself confused why no one knows…
In the end, we have to make it Okay somehow to ask for support. Ask for anyone to do anything for us because we ask too much of ourselves.
Last year, I introduced this new project, 100 Days of Letting Go of Past Shite in THIS POST. “… In burying what does not serve you, you create space for something more profound to grow. You become stronger by weeding through what is no longer contributing to your growth.” and explained that the reason I…
How do I restart a project I paused 7 months ago? I’d recommend a running start for momentum so I can finish my project and sail on beyond. There’s so much of me that cherishes the esteem I get from these challenge accomplishments. And sometimes life interrupts your best plans. In this case, I was…
I am hoping that when I put my hands on these objects, I’ll have a little more impetus to actually move them out of the house. We’ll see.
Feeling a little lost. Again, cruising around life looking for something to purpose and ground me. But it’s not out there but in here. The Universe knew that.
We need to talk about our writing/creative efforts and lives more. Yew I’m a mom and also a writer because I write.
When I was pregnant, I was told the very fact that I cared so much about what kind of parent I’d become meant that I’d be a good parent. What takes a potential good parent and steers them to the wrong side of the road? Their own lack of self-compassion and emotional intelligence or awareness….
More than any year prior, I felt into my word of the year as honestly as I could, and it commanded my New Year choices of change. Leapy was the word I chose to guide me this year. My own personal leap year has encompassed so many life changes that make this birthday sweeter in…
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