Welcome to 2024! Click here or on the photo to watch the introduction to the Creative Energy Levels vlog: Let’s set the tone for this year from a Creative Energy standpoint. If we consider the options available everything comes down to how we talk to ourselves and the feelings that result. I’m well […]
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The FREE 8-Day Emotional Maturity Challenge … begins October 16
I invite us to consider the tools we have in place when the unexpected happens. We know that out of nowhere, in the twinkling of an eye, everything can change. Let’s consider creative ways to address inevitable change with Emotional Maturity. Honing this quality of an expansive approach can feel alchemical. It’s possible to transmute […]
Time to Grow UP^ Looking Fear Demons in the Eye
We need to grow. Stretching and being curious allow life to expand rather than contract. If we become formulaic, or worse if we become stuck and stagnant, where are we? The choice is present in every situation. In the Dream, Drozda, Acrylic/board, 18×24″ Each year in July the moon/month is dedicated to sensing new ways […]
Grow Your Capacity to Share
In this post, I emphasize one of our favorite tenets for the art/life which is that we grow together. Summer is the season to truly expand on this concept in your experience. click here: watch […]
Welcome to Spring & the New Circadian Circle/Wisdom Wheel
The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day and dances in the rhythmic measure. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth into each blade of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of flowers. Rabindranath Tagore As we enter […]
Cross Quarter You
It’s amazing what you can do by just telling and owning your own story. I shared stories in the first two posts of this still-new year. Post one. Post two. I’ve been demonstrating, in my own imperfect fashion, story-telling power. I couldn’t share either of those stories immediately. I had to give myself time and […]
Breath of the Blind Sea Turtle
Remembering that 2023 is our global Vision Quest year I remind us of the inquiries made in the previous blog post : Consider your inner strength. Consider the simple things that sustain you. Consider the brilliance of your current fondest dream. And Breathe. Breathe as if your life depends on it! This past year […]
I Hold My Breath
Journal page, Drozda As the outside world grows less dependable, I keep buttressing my inside world, where people go on meaning well and surprising other people with little touches of grace. Anne Tyler I’ve been holding my breath. It’s a shocking truth and it’s still hard to wrap my head around. Off and […]
The North Gate Opens: Stepping into the Mystery
End-of-Year Review THE TRUELOVE by David Whyte There is a faith in loving fiercely the one who is rightfully yours, especially if you have waited years and especially if part of you never believed you could deserve this loved and beckoning hand held out to you this way. I am thinking of […]
Who Gets Your Trust?
Happy New Trust Moon! Welcome to August and our cross-quarter marker. We are halfway through the summer. The summer moon/months are the most expansive time of the natural year. Starts on August 17! Any approach that renews your self-confidence and keeps you moving forward is worth cultivating. The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp I […]