I’ve been avoiding the room in my house that brings me my most joy. I’ve been actively avoiding my studio room, the heart of my creative expression, my own sacred space. I realized this today on a nice late Winter afternoon walk with my husband. Usually, on these walks he and I process much of[…]
Time Management for Creative People
Time management for Creative People As I sit here, and approach this blog, my journal is laid out before me. I am planning, writing, thinking and dreaming up my day. Part of my plan today is to write a blog post. I typically have 3-5 ideas swimming through my head on what I want to[…]
As February ends, I reflect
February dances into March, with a sweet southern snowstorm to grace our presence. As I write this note, I have my accounting software open on my computer (tax season is here, oh my!). I am reflecting on this year since stepping into my art and coaching business full time, and wowsus ~ what a year![…]
How to Heal your Heart Chakra in 5 easy steps
heal your heart chakra “The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.” ~ Helen Keller With all the heart shaped chocolates and love themed cards in stores, if you didn’t know it was Valentine’s Day in the US, you’d think we were a culture obsessed with[…]
Confession: I was addicted to being busy
I was leaving my dance class this morning, and my dear friend asked me what I was up to today. I held up my hand in an 0 shape to signify nothing. I have no plans, I told her. I immediately got in my car and thought about how I should have come up with[…]
15 signs you are creatively blocked
I believe we are all on this earth because we are conduits for a greater creative power. Chances are, if you’ve been attracted to my writings and art and life, you jive with this idea. I have been thinking lately of what a creative block feels like to me, and how I often the need[…]
A love affair
This love affair like all others you know. Inspecting all the smallest aspects that you love about your love… Being love struck and forgetting about other priorities… Lots of private time to out what your chemistry is like… But, here’s the one part that may be different than all other love affairs you’ve experienced. This[…]
Behind the Curtains: 9 life lessons I’ve learned from birth
Each and every time I think about life and my principles for my coaching sessions, or for my own inter personal needs, I think of birth. As a birth Doula, I recognize and honor that I have seen the most natural and auspicious creative process known to humankind: birth. Being born unifies us all ~[…]
Are you going to evolve or disappear?
A true lesson on throwing away my old paint brushes As I am wrapping up this year, as I have finished my custom orders and attended my last birth, I am feeling reflective. The other day I reflective in a real weepy, unsure, a bit scared way. I keep saying to myself: I am where[…]
Life in Black and White
“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.” ~Susan Sontag I was challenged on via social media to do a black and white photo documentation of 5[…]