Do you have to burnout?

I made another spontaneous video – now that I’ve started, I can’t seem to stop.  In this one, I’m actually wearing a little lipstick (I had to go to the accountant, which for me is a big outing and thus the celebratory lipstick). But lipstick that is not the topic of this video, creative burnout [...]

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Are Expectations Killing You?

Hi Dear Heart, I recorded a spontaneous video today — without good lighting or even lipstick (which when you’ve been raised in the south by a beautiful belle is a strangely big deal) to make a heart-point about how expectations may be squashing your happiness and stopping you. Spend 2 minutes with me and use [...]

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How A Soul Posse Changed My Life

I feel that stuck-in-my-throat this-is-so-important I want-everybody-to-have-it energy about my mini-course on creating your own “soul posse” mastermind group. Why is it so important to me you pay attention to this course? It’s certainly not because being in groups has been easy for me. In fact, it’s been one of the consistently most challenging things [...]

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Who’s Influencing You?

And are they helping you get your art done and out in the world? Helping you do more great work? Influence is a profound factor in our health, well-being and success — it can make the difference between creating deep happiness and making real progress on your desires or floundering, getting lost in yet another [...]

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A Shero Stays Awake

The word “shero” reentered my life at the end of August 2010.  I had taken a month long digital sabbatical – no email, no social media – so I could listen more deeply to what was calling to me. Right at the end of my sabbatical, Kripalu contacted me about my yearly teaching gig. Martha [...]

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Are You Ready to Play Big?

You know how you “meet” someone through the interwebs, then you really meet in the flesh and maybe you are a little… underwhelmed? Or even a little… aghast? That is so not what happened when I finally meet Tara Sophia Mohr. Instead I felt like so lucky, as in “Oh my, really? A heart friend!” [...]

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Please Prevent Dream Burn Out – Only You Can

I know, it’s the first week of January and yet I’m already feeling some goal burn out, dream burn out, 2012 getting you down. Today, after yoga, I was feeling a bit stiff and sore, and underneath that, a little resentful. And underneath that, a chewy teenager “screw this” attitude. Hmmm, I thought, this particular [...]

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