by jlouden | Mar 28, 2018 | Blog, Uncategorized
I spent a big chunk of March in Patagonia (Chile and Argentina) trekking and trail running with my husband and bonus son Aidan. The landscape dwarfed any I’ve ever been in. We drove through native grasslands with nary a fence in sight. We hiked into a basin beneath...
by jlouden | Mar 14, 2018 | Blog, Uncategorized
Last week we talked about how to recover when you’ve broken a promise you made to yourself. This week, let’s illuminate how to make promises you can keep. Most of us never learned how to make clear promises to ourselves. And that causes us a whole lot of unnecessary...
by jlouden | Mar 7, 2018 | Blog
Saturday I planned on running 5 miles. Friday night, I drank two glasses of red wine with my friend Dana. Red wine gives me a weird hangover, a sticky mix of weepy and headachy. (But it was so fun to celebrate my friend’s new job.) I did not run on Saturday. Felt...
by jlouden | Feb 28, 2018 | Blog
March means Spring! I’ve always thought March should be considered the beginning of the new year. Of course so did ancient cultures. Everything quickening and gathering energy to spring into new life. I’m feeling that new beginning energy in such a lovely way. As I...
by jlouden | Feb 21, 2018 | Blog
If right now you are telling yourself it’s all been done before, who cares if you write the novel or paint the painting or start the business, and anyway, who do you think you are to be a maker, a creator, a writer? If those kind of stories are WHY you are not making...
by jlouden | Feb 14, 2018 | Blog, Uncategorized
Without you getting any writing done? Another day without writing or painting or working out or finally trying out those new recipes? Another day when everything and everybody else took precedence. Or you started but then didn’t know what exactly to do so you got...