by jlouden | Sep 27, 2012 | Favorites
Callings, purpose, playing big, shero’s journey… Branding, tag lines, niches, customer avatars, tell a compelling personal story… Service… All of these are often worthy, even vital, ideas to guide you in sculpting a meaningful life…. and if you give your...
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 | Sep 5, 2012 | Favorites
I have long wondered: at what point, if ever, do we say to ourselves or a beloved, “This dream in this form is not possible. You are not attending to life’s realities. You need to regroup.” Wait: I have to call myself out. I’m already hedging....
by jlouden | Aug 21, 2012 | Favorites
I’ve been in a pickle of ugliness lately. Mother-daughter stuff – both ways. Mom and I clashing (she has early stage Alzheimer’s) about her care and I feel horrible about being so impatient and selfish about not wanting to take her places. With my...
by jlouden | Jul 20, 2012 | Favorites
When something pierces your heart with pain, you can channel your fear and sadness by: Being with what you’re feeling Sending loving kindness Doing something It’s tempting when something horrific like the shooting in Denver happens to follow the thought...
by jlouden | Jul 18, 2012 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
Is there something bugging you: the unfinished manuscript, the half-launched service project, the aching desire to feel good again? Something you want to get unstuck and get going? Perhaps you’ve skipped. The skip gets us all. The skip is the bypass. the work...
