by jlouden | Nov 22, 2011 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
In your youth, letting go is naive. You do it – blithely, even carelessly – because you do not know the costs. Gain some years, years pockmarked with goings you did not want, years dented by goings you did everything you could to prevent, and letting go...
by jlouden | Nov 11, 2011 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
I haven’t read much about the significance of today’s date 11-11-11. What I have picked up is that, in some lineages, it signals the possibility for immense healing. That today is an invitation of sorts. Hmmm…. I asked myself: What if today,...
by jlouden | Nov 3, 2011 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
Dedicated to my Lilly girl 1 Dedicate yourself to wholeness. Perfection appears to be a much sexier partner but is actually a demon lover who will suck you dry and leave you bitter and broken. 2 Acknowledge what you experience and how you feel. It’s not about...
by jlouden | Oct 27, 2011 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
When I was writing my first book, The Woman’s Comfort Book, way back in late 1980’s, I knew that comfort wasn’t always healthy, that we use often comfort to check out, to numb out, to hide. I coined that use of comfort “shadow comforts.”...
by jlouden | Sep 4, 2011 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
It appears to be Patti Digh week here at the Savor & Serve blog. Today, we have another helpful writing video: What to do when a swarm of glittering ideas overtakes you on a saunter, but when you get home, you find you got nothing. All that brilliance crumbles...
by jlouden | Sep 1, 2011 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
My friends Patti Digh and Susan Piver and I met up on Skype last week to plan our September writing retreat. While we were there, we discoursed in helpful and hilarious ways on how to make fear, if not your friend, certainly somebody you can write along side of....
