by jlouden | Jun 28, 2017 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Video
The challenge I talk about in today’s video is one that comes up a lot. It comes up when I’m talking with my friends, my colleagues, my students, and whenever anyone finds out that I’m a writer AND a long time business owner. Here’s the...
by jlouden | Jun 20, 2017 | Blog, Video
I’ve been traveling a lot lately and while I’ve worked on my memoir when I can, and when I am home, it’s been patchy. It was just too much for my heart to write while I was visiting my mom in memory care last week. The emotional wallop of feeding my mom...
by jlouden | Jun 13, 2017 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
Some of the most powerful change in the world has come from words on a page. Think about how many significant and meaningful changes started when someone scribbled something down in a pamphlet and stood on a street corner selling them for a tuppence, or on a napkin...
by jlouden | Jun 7, 2017 | Blog, Video
I’m knee deep in writing my memoir right now. I half love it. And I half feel drained and sucked dry after each session. No matter how frequently I try to make art of my own life through telling my most personal stories, each time I do it it feels like I’m...
by jlouden | May 30, 2017 | Blog, Video
Can you relate to this… You sit down to write. And you write and write. You probably have periods where you get so excited you can barely stand yourself with how much you can write. Flow baby flow! And other times, it’s like exercising after recovering...