by jlouden | Jan 16, 2014 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
Last year, palliative care nurse Bronnie Ware’s blog post (and book) The 5 Regrets of the Dying was read by millions. It is regret number one that has stuck with me the most: “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life...
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...
