Emotion

Zero Out Anxiety

Most of us are walking around with big doses of anxiety, keeping us from our desired lives. This might be true in general, but I'm referring to our emotional re... Read More...

Grateful for You

We are nearing the end of this very bad, horrible, terrible, no-good year.  And in the end, what do we have to show for it? We still have a pandemic threatening... Read More...

Self-doubt, Self-inflicted?

Doesn't matter if you're published, produced or award-winning, creativity comes with a side order of doubt. Doubt I recently read that Bono, of U2 fame, had w... Read More...
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Creating in Uncertainty

I'm everything all at once. Rushed, focused, engaged - even as I'm also - slow, preoccupied, disengaged. Uncertainty is part of everything in our lives right no... Read More...

Oh, for some alone-time!

“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.”  Ernest Hemingway Writing is a solitary sport. But, many of the people I talk with lately  cannot get any alon... Read More...

Hope and Uncertainty

2020 has not become what I thought it would. I thought - after losing my dogs, my dad, my father-in-law, going through an audit and breaking my arm in 2019 - th... Read More...

I was doing so well…

When I see a post like this, I try to help. This is my area of expertise, afterall. So, first, I'm certain, this person's experience is not unique. "Th... Read More...

How Trauma Shows Up

I'm in love with this quote: "Trauma decontextualized in a person looks like personality. Trauma decontextualized in a family looks like family traits. Trauma ... Read More...