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Last year, 2024, was my game changing year. I vowed to conquer my anxieties and fortify my body with all the right hormones, I made significant changes in my life. I locked down and worked through my blockages on my blog, my finances, my anxieties, and found my self-esteem hiding behind those blockages. I did…
One of the big epiphanies which led me to begin my 100 days of letting go of past shite project, was how I’d decided that this project was a waste of time. At the time, I was overwhelmed and doing my forced march to the finish line. I then convinced myself that it wasn’t as…
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…
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.
We need to talk about our writing/creative efforts and lives more. Yew I’m a mom and also a writer because I write.
For the past 2 months, my foray into opening and writing my Substack site has brought me both hope for creating a larger community and the aching sense of being a complete beginner. Because learning curves makes us feel really stupid. And who wants to willingly walk into a situation where they feel stupid? Pas…
Hello! I am so glad you’ve found your way to my blog at Shalavee.com! My name is Shalagh (pronounced Shay-la) and since 2011, this blog has been my home for learning my wisdom lessons and living my life creatively. This was not always my truth. Once, my unpermitted and unexpressed creativity felt like I suffered…
This year marks the 13th year of the creation Shalavee.com and I have blogged consistently monthly throughout those years. See last week’s story about beginning the blog Here. Many who were blogging before me or alongside me, have moved on from their blogs. Perhaps to a Substack account or otherwise in their careers; bloggers are…
I was so nervous when I created that fist blog post and sent it out. I had lamented over the WordPress theme. But I really needed the excuse to show up to write regularly and so my blog at Shalavee.com was born in August of 2011. I think. My daughter Fiona was born less than…
I’m a definite homebody. I need my space and my time in my home to ground me. If other people are around the house, I’ve got a history of …
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