by jlouden | Jul 20, 2021 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Why Bother, Why Bother
I’ve been writing since high school. More accurately, I’ve been learning how to write since high school. The editor of The Woman’s Comfort Book, my first book published in 1992 that went on to sell 350,000 copies and is still in print, told me a few years...
by jlouden | Jul 7, 2021 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Why Bother, Why Bother
I love comfort. I started my career writing about comfort and self-care with The Woman’s Comfort Book. I believe in the transformative power of healthy comfort. But I also intimately know the fine line between “Time for a nap because I’m tired” and “Time for a nap...
by jlouden | Jun 30, 2021 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Why Bother, Why Bother
Probably the most common question I get from the writers and creators I work with is: “It’s hard sometimes to give my creative work a feeling of importance. It’s easier to do the things I’ve been asked to do by others or I’m getting paid to do. I’ve been working on...
by jlouden | Jun 1, 2021 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Why Bother, Why Bother
The last year+ has caused many of us to reassess what matters to us. To make changes, or start to make changes, to explore what has more heart and more meaning. Or as one client said to me, “I’m tired of supporting everybody else to shine. It’s my damn time.” If...
by jlouden | May 26, 2021 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Why Bother, Why Bother
We are all in liminal space. Betwixt and between what was and what will be. Personally and collectively. Richard Rohr writes about liminal space in Everything Belongs: “…often remain trapped in what we call normalcy–“the way things are.”...
by jlouden | Apr 20, 2021 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Why Bother, Why Bother
I spent a lot of the last year inside the house, as did most of the world. We decided early on to play it super safe, plus it was simply too hard to parse risk every single day: was it safe to run with friends? Which friends were safe? Did we need to wear masks or...
