by jlouden | Jan 10, 2017 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Video
I’ve been interested in story making from a lot of different perspectives for a really long time. In this video I share my take on story and how the one you tell yourself about your most important work can either move you closer to or draw you further away from...
by jlouden | Oct 21, 2015 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
Earlier this year, I attended a meditation retreat and the retreat opened me to a new way of being. Yes, like all retreats, the exquisite nectar of the experience faded over time… yet with this retreat, something stayed different, if you will forgive me that...
by jlouden | Oct 7, 2015 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
The boxes are unpacked. The diploma awarded. The laughter from the retirement party has faded away. You are on the other side. Now what? We spend so much time, it seems to me, talking about transition: being in one, approaching one, or trying to avoid one, we perhaps...
by jlouden | Sep 30, 2015 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
For the last two years, I have been trying to make sense of how, after a very hard period in my life, I got so deeply mired in regret and sadness that even falling in love with a man who makes my whole being light up just by walking around a corner wasn’t enough to...
by jlouden | Sep 23, 2015 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
Once a year, I convene a course I co-created a number of years ago with Michele Lisenbury called TeachNow. What the course is really about is developing your craft as a teacher, about what happens when you ask yourself, “I want to be a better teacher; how do I...
