by jlouden | Nov 30, 2012 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
Today I turn 50. The best way I know to celebrate this turn on my life’s odometer is to give you gifts because that makes me happy — that + yoga + meditation, then some novel writing, reading, a nap, finished with gluten-free pizza and champagne with my...
by jlouden | Nov 20, 2012 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
Falling into flow: letting go of the guard rails of to-dos. Sweet feeling of homecoming, creative return. Then flash of fear out of the tail of my heart’s eye: Who am I without lists projects cool girl requests? hot irons steaming in the fire? Chuckle; return to...
by jlouden | Nov 13, 2012 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
Hey chic peas that I love, guess what? I am turning 50 on November 30th. Fifty-years-old. Wow-za. Big things are moving inside me. And I want to tell you about them in the coming days, and what turning 50 means to me, and stuff like that but today I only want to say...
by jlouden | Oct 23, 2012 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
15 radical ways to get unstuck from whatever feels sticky. Some contradict. But of course. 1:: Decide that whatever is stuck will never change. It is here and not going anywhere. Surrender to it. Court it – how can you fall in love with it? How can you open to...
by jlouden | Oct 16, 2012 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
Now is the time. Better than any other. Ever. Can you feel the thrum of it, the unseen current, the insistent love of it? Now is the time to act on what beckons, what eats at you, what you have turned your back on 10,000 times. Oh yes, oh yes! You say! You gloriously,...
by jlouden | Oct 11, 2012 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
Somewhere there is a room made of bee’s wax and heart honey and the sound that is left after the meditation gong has gone still In it sits the woman you actually are a woman restored a woman of wholeness a woman enough a woman who chooses and embraces the...