Last year, I took three months off writing. It was a trial-separation. Writing had occupied my mind and life for the last fifteen years and, when I finished my latest novel last year, I was exhausted. I took a break from my relationship with writing and took off to New York, Paris, and Scandinavia for […]
Social media are great for developing community, but for true belonging, real connection and real empathy require meeting real people in a real space in a real time. Brené Brown Braving the Wilderness Chapter Six: Hold Hands. With Strangers. A couple of weeks ago, I stood with hundreds of women and sang a song […]
We all have a story promise in us. Something sown deep within that seeks to be released. Perhaps some of you have that lump in your throat, that heart race, that visceral response in your body that tells you it’s time to make a promise. It may be time to give yourself permission to honour […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 92: Get Messy Why, when we know that there’s no such thing as perfect, do most of us spend an incredible amount of time and energy trying to be everything to everyone? Is it that we really admire perfection? No – the truth is that we are actually drawn to […]
Christmas is over for another year and as our our thoughts move to plans for 2016, I’m thinking over the idea of Recovering a Sense of Possibility. For the next week I’m working through Chapter Five of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity. Too often we look at the past year […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 17 Oh the cringe factor of reading my first book! It’s not TERRIBLE, it’s just that I see the errors, the poor writing, the ways in which I have changed as a person since I write those words ten years ago. It’s like that 80’s hairstyle that my […]
For the last three weeks, Jodie, Amanda and I have been having a conversation in our online book club. The conversation has been challenging and rewarding. From Rumbling With the Dark Side, to being an Emotional Ninja to The Reckoning we’ve all been through an emotional tumble dryer. Our lives have been shaken, stirred and shifted […]
Dear Brené, Well, we’ve made it to Chapter Four. Amanda’s become a ninja and is having an online personality crisis. Jodie tried to skip Day Two, but found it impossible—just like you said she would. I’m going to be straight with you, I don’t’ want to go into the Dark Cave of Reckoning. In fact, […]
Dear Brené, I hope you don’t mind me calling you Brené. I’ve never met you in person, but I’ve read your books and watched your TED talks and feel like I know you. In Rising Strong you give voice to so many things I feel, but haven’t been able to articulate. You’ve given me a language […]
