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by jlouden | May 16, 2017 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Video
Often times when we get an idea for a new writing project our energy goes through the roof. We’re so excited about our new idea and to write about it that we can barely stand ourselves. Which can be a good thing. Or not. Sometimes the excitement of our desire...
by jlouden | Apr 24, 2017 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
I admit it. I get a little pissy when someone writes a ‘favorite writing books’ post and it always includes the same five books. It’s not that I don’t like Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott or On Writing by Stephen King. These are grand books full of insights but...
by jlouden | Apr 11, 2017 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Video
We’re in week one of my Get Your Scary S**t Done course with a group of wonderful brave souls, and someone emailed me a question about how to ask for feedback without being crushed by it. Which is astonishingly synchronistic because I just spent the weekend with my...
by jlouden | Mar 14, 2017 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Shero's Journey
Some ten years ago, when writing The Life Organizer, I stumbled upon a super useful metaphor for organizing your life that has since rocked my world and tens of thousands of other people’s worlds, too. You start with a stove. A plain, simple four burner stove. Not a...
by jlouden | Feb 28, 2017 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
Here’s an idea: let’s not waste any time feeling alone or special in our boondoggles, horn-swallows, tomorrow-is-the-day, and various adorable ways that we get in our own way when it comes to doing what we really want to do. Because we all get in our way. We all turn...
by jlouden | Jan 31, 2017 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
Fear camouflages itself as confusion and keeps brilliant creative women from the pleasures and successes of a fully expressed life. And fear’s number one choice when trying to trip you up? Your inability to choose. Your refusal to take a seat at the table of desire....
