by jlouden | Jan 17, 2012 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites, Video
You know how you “meet” someone through the interwebs, then you really meet in the flesh and maybe you are a little… underwhelmed? Or even a little… aghast? That is so not what happened when I finally meet Tara Sophia Mohr. Instead I felt like...
by jlouden | Jan 11, 2012 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
Ever think about how incredibly dependent humans are on being taught? You can’t survive without near constant instruction for a long, long time. We big headed mammals even have to be taught how to breast feed. You would have died without teachers. A bit...
by jlouden | Jan 5, 2012 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Video
I know, it’s the first week of January and yet I’m already feeling some goal burn out, dream burn out, 2012 getting you down. Today, after yoga, I was feeling a bit stiff and sore, and underneath that, a little resentful. And underneath that, a chewy...
by jlouden | Dec 21, 2011 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
The first breath you draw in the New Year ushers in complete forgiveness for yourself: every mean thought you ever had about your talent, your body, your potential, dissolves. You are so light, you float off the bed. The reason you were born, the thing the world aches...
by jlouden | Dec 14, 2011 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
I love to teach. I adore spending time with like-minded women working and playing their way toward wholeness. Women who lean into their longing to be more awake, more creative, and more alive. Women who work to change the world so more women everywhere can fulfill...
by jlouden | Dec 8, 2011 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
I was raised in a home where the holidays were celebrated in… stuff. For my parents, children of the depression, their prosperity existed to be shared, through buying us lots and lots and lots of gifts. Imagine an artificial tree (it was the 70’s) with...
