by jlouden | Oct 2, 2012 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
Dismantle the walls of your isolation Let yourself be seen. What is possible when support flows in? Will you gulp, balk, give more than receive? Of course. Will you go back into hiding, cover your head, certain that everyone else belongs, can be held but you? Of...
by jlouden | Sep 20, 2012 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
After I coach a client, I write-up a few notes and send a recording of our call. My notes to a brave & wise client (woo to the hoo) this week inspired this post. Consider these directions to get any new venture cracking – writing a book, launching a...
by jlouden | Sep 12, 2012 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
My friend Andrea Scher has just launched a glorious new website, Superhero Life. It’s beautiful and honest and offers a place to embrace your courage and your superhero /superShero powers. I first met Andrea in person too many years ago to recall exactly. She...
by jlouden | Aug 29, 2012 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
The art of pre-grieving is one I learned from my dad. Because he was afraid to die. My dad was 43 when I was born. Born in 1919, Dad was from a time where a long life was not assumed. His sister, Alma, died of scarlet fever when she was 6. His parents both died in...
by jlouden | Aug 17, 2012 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
A client said this to me this week “Fun on the weekends takes discipline.” I found myself nodding. I know, “fun takes discipline” could sound a bit like “Take your medicine and like it, dammit” but I notice that if I leave all my...
by jlouden | Aug 15, 2012 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
My definition of over-providing is giving more than is sustainable for the wrong reasons. You might also call it over-giving, over-delivering, or being the world’s breast. Or as Jeanne Witcraft said on Facebook when I asked for examples of over-providing,...
