by jlouden | Sep 28, 2014 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
1. You forget you are an animal. We tend to think we are giant heads on sticks and that we can think our way into the future we desire. So not happening. For just one example, daily stress shuts down your will power and suddenly it’s just too scary to join the dating...
by jlouden | Sep 25, 2014 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
It’s not dramatic. It never looks like a montage in a Hollywood movie where the house gets remodeled, the book written, the life regained after the unwanted divorce, so quickly, so easily, all set to a tune of heart-stirring music. It rarely feels glamorous or...
by jlouden | Sep 23, 2014 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
I adore stories with magic and fantasy elements because they remind me our lives are epic journeys, and we work to create what is good and true for ourselves. I love the reminder to rout the dragons that hoard our treasure and to not be led astray by false gods that...
by jlouden | Sep 21, 2014 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
I first met Tara online in the early days of Twitter and we then became friends after she told me, “The Woman’s Comfort Book meant so much to me; I read it when I was 14.” After our first phone chat, I hung up and thought, “That gal is going...
by jlouden | Sep 18, 2014 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
This weekend Bob and I went to dinner at a little restaurant off island. The proprietor greeted us when we walked in the door of what appeared to be her house – a funky bungalow with fat orange squashes growing around the porch and a push lawnmower abandoned in...
