Do you have to burnout?

by | Mar 6, 2013 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Video

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...

The Daily Loving Practice

by | Feb 18, 2013 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort

A few months back Lisa Claudia Briggs asked me to join a wise council of women and explore the question: What’s one act of loving care that you do for yourself each day, and how does it fill you up with peace, beauty, and gratitude? Here is what I said (with...

Swap True for Original

by | Feb 14, 2013 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort

Is needing to be original holding you back from creating? Succeeding? Teaching? Getting your great work out into the world? I want to dismiss, for all time, the idea of being original. Dear creative heart, hear me roar (gently) in your heart’s ear: Original is a...

Creative Joy Liberates

by | Feb 3, 2013 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort

Here is what I know & try to remember everyday: Creative joy liberates. Dance in its shimmering heart & give voice to what you find there and you will be changed. Enlivened. Awakened. Balanced on the edge of your life – an achingly wondrous place to...

On Being Lonely

by | Jan 16, 2013 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites

Lonely. It’s a forlorn word. It’s not the same as being alone – which is often so delicious – and it doesn’t just happen when you are alone – you can be lonely, as it is said, in a crowd. In a city. At a party. Lonely. It comes up...