by jlouden | Oct 16, 2019 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
Have you ever had a feeling of despair sneak up on you? I scared myself last week. I won’t bore you with all the details, but after forty-five minutes stuck in a morning snowstorm on the highway, I got home and was so exhausted, I went back to bed. For most of the...
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 9, 2015 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
This past weekend I went wild. I’ll admit, wild for me may appear tame to some, but hey, half a loaf of bread was consumed! Three bars of chocolate! Nine episodes of various Netflix TV episodes. Two naps! 200 pages of a stupid novel (I wish it hadn’t been stupid). Let...
by jlouden | Jun 10, 2015 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
My last post struck a resonant cord with many of you. Thank you so much for all your supportive wishes and sharing my words with your friends so widely. Your experiences of being in liminal space – this betwixt between time when you’ve let go of one person,...
by jlouden | Nov 9, 2014 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
I first met Anna when she did a coaching session with me and I told her “You can have an empire, if you want.” (She liked that.) Then Anna came to my Taos writing retreat two years ago. Over the week, I fell for her hard – she’s wicked smart,...
