Hello dear friends, Yesterday, I was inspired to create a meditation for you (you’ll find it at the end of this message). Inside the swirl of inspiration came a realization: . Everything I make for you, I make for myself, too.
What Are You All About?
I’ve got some fun news (and a VIDEO) to share with you below, but for now I have a question. How do you feel when you are asked: “So…what do YOU do?” I am not a fan. Not at all. The
Do You Remember?
When you think about things that heal, what comes to mind? Medicines? Exercise? Talk therapy? Nutrition? Massage or other body work? Yoga? What would you say if I suggested writing as a way to heal? Last week, I brought the
Learning to Use the Other Hand
In these last few months, we’ve discovered that we are adaptable. It might not feel like it, but we are. Along with….everything, a few weeks ago, I started getting shooting pain down my arm originating somewhere in my shoulder and
When You Create, You Are Singing To Your Ancestors
When we do our creative work for our sisters, mothers, grandmothers, or daughters, we are singing to our ancestors. Every woman who dares to let her voice be heard tears open the fabric of the created universe. For me, this
How Will You Do It?
This 2020, this bathroom break in history, this time of Nothing, is not just a pause between chapters. It is a reckoning. And a time to get real with ourselves. How will you do it? Some of us are running
Why Do We Do What We Do?
Remember last week when I said I was focusing on getting the first three chapters of my novel ready to send out to publishers and agents? . In my head, the chapters are DONE, emailed out, and the “just right”
What Aren’t You Doing?
“How are you?” . “Oh, I’m so busy!” . How often have you heard this interchange? When someone asks you how you are, are you the person who answers with, “I’m so busy!”? . If so, here’s my question for
How Are You With Transitions?
In early 2018, completed interviews for a project called 101 Core Conversations. Over the course of almost two years, I interviewed women about transitions in their lives. I’m just now beginning to revisit the interviews, and I cannot tell you
What Are You Ignoring?
My son and I were having one of those side-by-side conversations in the car the other day. If you are a parent, you know that this arrangement becomes essential in the teen years because adolescents will not speak if you