Eating mindfully during the holiday season takes effort and planning. The holidays are one of the most common times that mindless eating and overeating tend to occur. It’s easy to fall prey to the mind trap of convincing ourselves that it’s ok to go off of our eating plans just for the holidays. If you’re […]
Meditation and depression are two subjects we should be talking about more in the same sentence. Mindfulness meditation can help with depression. One of my favorite moments during a particularly challenging yoga class was when my teacher, while encouraging us to hold a very difficult pose for an extended period of time, laughed and also […]
Most creatives want to get better at overcoming creativity blocks. This has been another week bursting with creative energy. After living in Wilmington, NC for a year now, I’ve made a firm commitment to continue to stay here, to be here full-time, to create a life and community here. It really is true what they […]
Mindfulness of emotions practice can help us to enjoy a greater sense of inner stability. Most people think of meditation when they hear the word mindfulness, but mindfulness practice isn’t just about sitting. It can be practiced in any moment of the day and in relation to any act of doing or state of being. […]
When we make time to explore our creative longings, we feel more inspired. This week I walked on the beach for hours, searching for treasures that the sea had washed up. I walked slowly and allowed myself to be drawn to whatever I felt drawn to. I found an armful of driftwood and coral, along […]
Being courageous isn’t necessarily about skydiving or jumping off of a cliff. Or of taking the leap to self-employment or pursuing creative expression. I often hear clients, friends, and colleagues say things like, “I don’t have that kind of courage,” or “I’m not being courageous” as a reason for not moving toward doing something that […]
Embracing possibility can help us to feel a greater sense of life satisfaction. I’m all fired up from spending the afternoon with a friend yesterday and talking about creativity, writing, and books. I love hanging out with other people who are actively engaged in their own creative process, daring to live their lives, and daring […]
What does it mean to listen to your intuition? All of us have intuition. It’s our inner voice, the part of us that “just knows” things. Some of us are highly skilled at listening to it, while others may not be in touch with it at all, and still others know how to listen but […]
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 […]