by jlouden | Dec 27, 2017 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
Once upon a time, a girl made something from nothing. She made fairy castles from mud and twigs, painted her dreams in every color and spun worlds from words. Oh how she loved the Making. The bubbling luminescent Love of it gilded everything with possibility. And then...
by jlouden | Apr 11, 2017 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Video
We’re in week one of my Get Your Scary S**t Done course with a group of wonderful brave souls, and someone emailed me a question about how to ask for feedback without being crushed by it. Which is astonishingly synchronistic because I just spent the weekend with my...
by jlouden | Feb 7, 2017 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Video
I have kind of a big secret that I’m sharing with you today. When I tell people I’m really prone to doing this “thing”, they don’t believe me. At first. But then I tell them what I’ve learned over the years that actually makes it...
by jlouden | Jun 24, 2015 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
I’m always sad when, on one of my writing retreats, the subject of journaling comes up and someone will sigh and say things like, “I know I should journal but I never can seem to make a daily habit of it.” “I tried morning pages but I couldn’t find time to write three...
by jlouden | Apr 9, 2015 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
In a recent meditation training I attended, our teacher kept asking us different versions of this question: “How is life wanting to live you?” I ate that question up and it made me squirm. I loved the invitation of it – something larger flowing and...
