by jlouden | Jan 14, 2014 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
Illustration: Kristin Noelle How do you find your way back to your self, to your “unstainable goodness,” to trusting and following your path, when something or someone sends you spinning off course? I asked a handful of friends this question because you...
by jlouden | Jan 7, 2014 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
(Also known as shadow comforts and time monsters) Shadow comforts are the things we do that don’t replenish us (often in the name of comfort) and time monsters are the choices that take us away from our dreams of what we really want to create or experience. As I...
by jlouden | Jan 1, 2014 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
Sometimes, like lately, I find myself in a hole of my own making. This time its walls are made of sugar, self-judgment, and family stress. It’s a familiar hole. At first, I didn’t want to write a post about my mostly self-made stuckness. I didn’t...
by jlouden | Dec 28, 2013 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
Three weeks ago I made a bold decision: to create a program based on my body of work, a “greatest hits” of what I’ve been teaching and living for 21+ years. You see, my publisher, New World Library, is just releasing my book, The Life Organizer, in...
by jlouden | Dec 21, 2013 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
I love Christmas. I was raised celebrating Christmas. And when Lillian was tiny, I created a celebration around the Winter Solstice because I wanted to create an antidote to the Christmas I had grown up with. Our holiday was about how many presents my sister and I...
by jlouden | Sep 10, 2013 | Favorites
I’m delighted to be part of Kate Northrup’s Money Love Stories project as part of the launch of her new book, Money: A Love Story. Money is a taboo topic and I’ve always wondered why? Why don’t we talk about what things cost, how much we make,...
