by Tressa Beheim | May 30, 2024 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Why Bother, Why Bother
The tender new-green freshness of spring continues here in Northern Colorado because we’ve had so much rain. I don’t want to go inside, it’s so fragrant. Poppies and peonies and lilacs galore. I’ve obsessively planted my pots and window boxes (or rather porch boxes)...
by jlouden | Feb 29, 2024 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Why Bother, Why Bother
The catkins are sprouting on the cottonwoods and the days are getting longer here in Northern Colorado. It’s been windy and dry which is scary – we had a fire warning yesterday – and at the same time, I feel spring energy crackling around me and it makes...
by jlouden | Aug 30, 2023 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Why Bother, Why Bother
Do you ever sit down to do your creative work or biz stuff or just life stuff and freeze? Where to start? At the first item on your list or somewhere else? What’s most important? No, that’s too scary to start with. Pick something easier like answer that email… Oh...
by jlouden | Aug 9, 2023 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Why Bother, Why Bother
As you may know, if you’ve been here awhile (and if not howdy new reader and welcome!) I started writing a novel after a 10-year (or 15? I’m so bad with time) hiatus from writing fiction. The idea for my contemporary fantasy novel came to me while leading my...
by jlouden | Jun 28, 2023 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Why Bother, Why Bother
If you’ve been around for awhile (and if you’re new, waving hi! Thank you for subscribing!) you know I’m the author of nine non-fiction books and I’m working on a novel. Woot! I’ve been a working writer, and now non-fiction book coach, supporting herself and her...
by jlouden | Jun 14, 2023 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Why Bother, Why Bother
There is a pesky phenomenon rearing its pesky head fairly often for my coaching clients and my artist pals. It shows up whining and lamenting: “I’m a has-been, a dud, I can’t pull this off. I don’t have what it takes.” Or “My project is doomed, doomed I tell you, and...
