by jlouden | Nov 27, 2019 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
The holidays used to trigger all sorts of self-recriminations in me. I used to wonder how to forgive yourself, forgive myself, for mistakes from seasons past. Awful toxic stuff. I would castigate myself for all the ways I wasn’t grateful enough; for all the ways I...
by jlouden | Nov 20, 2019 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
I coined the term “human-scaled life” when I was making a weekly Oasis audio a few years ago, as an antidote to our endless drive to be productive or an anti-productivity hack. I coined it in response to the insane pressure many of us experience around being...
by jlouden | Nov 12, 2019 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
I often say when teaching or coaching, “You become the person who can do the thing you want to do by doing it.” You become the person you want to be. By which I mean you aren’t that person when you start your project, but you grow into being that person through the...
by jlouden | Oct 30, 2019 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
I made you a procrastination discernment flow chart, because we all procrastinate for different reasons. We need to know why we are procrastinating to know what to do differently. Start at the beginning. What to do if you selected YES! or Yes, but… Yes, you want...
by jlouden | Oct 23, 2019 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
Here’s a statement I hear pretty darn regularly, “I know I want to _______ (finish my book, start dating again, clean out the art studio, go back to school), but instead I do a million other things that I don’t really want to do and then I veg on the couch. I rebel...
by jlouden | Oct 16, 2019 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
Have you ever had a feeling of despair sneak up on you? I scared myself last week. I won’t bore you with all the details, but after forty-five minutes stuck in a morning snowstorm on the highway, I got home and was so exhausted, I went back to bed. For most of the...
