When you commit to your creativity, you can access a greater sense of creative ease, freedom, and flow. Many creative people struggle with commitment to creativity. Sure, sometimes the well runs dry and we struggle to generate creative ideas, but more often, we have so many creative ideas that we have difficulty committing to one […]
Answering the call to create means saying, “Yes!” to this moment, yes to a Spirit that beckons to us to claim our true nature and become a conduit for the expression of our authentic voice. We are all called to create in some manner—through artistic expression, writing, parenting our children well, developing a strategic plan […]
This week I returned to my morning meditation practice following a few weeks of being out of my routine. The recent launch of the website that I designed and created for my coaching practice and online classes along with recent travel, had taken me out of my daily practice for the past few weeks. The […]
Mindful wellness is an attitude of awareness and empowerment in which there is an ongoing movement toward optimal wellbeing of mind, body, spirit, and environment and an ongoing movement toward one’s full potential. Wellness involves the holistic integration of different aspects of wellbeing. There are 7 major aspects of wellness: Emotional, Physical, Social, Spiritual, Intellectual, […]
Setting clear intentions is at the foundation of creating lasting lifestyle changes. Most of us are interested in living our best lives. On the journey toward living our best lives, we are all attempting to change something—our jobs, our bodies, our schedules, our eating habits, our exercise habits, our self-defeating thoughts and behaviors, our ability […]
The importance of place has been on my mind as I’ve more deeply explored the natural surroundings of my new home city. Now that the warm weather has arrived, I’ve been immersing myself in nature in this beautiful coastal city. The weather hasn’t encouraged blogging, as evidenced by the date of the last blog entry […]
I first stumbled on the Wrightsville Beach mailbox over a year ago when I encountered a funky found art exhibit on the north end of the beach. There are stairs leading to a platform, a mailbox that has written, “Leave a note” on it, a tree limb firmly held in place by the sand that […]
I’m in Bogota, Colombia this week. As I struggle to learn words in Spanish, my latest Writing Mindfully for Transformation online workshop has just begun, and the workshop participants are bravely finding words to tell their life stories. As the weeks go by, they will begin to discover how the expression of words holds the […]
Don’t go back to sleep. Magical things happen in the hour before dawn. This morning, awakened early by my little dog, Eos, I lay still for a few minutes, mulling over questions for which I have no clear answers. The only sounds outside were the call of a barred owl and the first songbird of […]
We can practice writing mindfully to make order from chaos, to make meaning from our lives, and to heal. For centuries, people have been writing in their journals, writing memoirs, or writing the stories of their lives as a way to validate their everyday experiences and sometimes as a way to connect with other people […]