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 | Mar 14, 2017 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Shero's Journey
Some ten years ago, when writing The Life Organizer, I stumbled upon a super useful metaphor for organizing your life that has since rocked my world and tens of thousands of other people’s worlds, too. You start with a stove. A plain, simple four burner stove. Not a...
by jlouden | Feb 28, 2017 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
Here’s an idea: let’s not waste any time feeling alone or special in our boondoggles, horn-swallows, tomorrow-is-the-day, and various adorable ways that we get in our own way when it comes to doing what we really want to do. Because we all get in our way. We all turn...
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 | Jan 18, 2017 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.” ― Pema Chödrön As usual, Pema nails it. Meditation teacher Richard Miller calls it out in a different way – degraded wisdom. The way I understand this is life wants us to be whole and so it...
