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Everyone is an artist.  Every child is creative. They either learn to express it, or they learn to suppress it. Those of us who learned to suppress their creative impulse are called Shadow Artists in Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. Shadow artists feel attracted to (certain) artistic expressions like bees to honey, but they don’t…

I hate it! I hate it! I hate it! Doing Morning Pages sucks. And that is exactly why I am committing to doing them for ten weeks straight. Some new type of sadomasochism? Maybe. I don’t know. All I know is that I have to do this. Now. Morning pages are nothing new. It’s a…

Mindfulness, as I see it, is making space for what is happening in this moment. It is allowing ourselves to become the space in which we allow this moment to happen, in which we allow ourselves to become aware of what is happening and experience it without attributing meaning to it, so we can choose…

For years, I’ve asked myself the question: What’s my purpose in life? The question was so strong within me that the not-knowing led to inertia. I just didn’t have a clue. And while everybody was going about their business, whether they knew their purpose or not, I just seemed incapable of moving forward. So for…

A month ago, I posted The Love Challenge, and challenging it has been. In retrospect, I should have named it differently… *wink* For these past weeks, I have been a holy mess. I’ve been sad, angry, sad again, even angrier, raging, frustrated, overwhelmed, fuming, wanting to punch everyone that was around, even more sad, and then…

Most of us feel not enough as we are, we feel we need to do the next thing to become better, and somehow that next thing doesn’t fill the void, because somehow we still don’t feel enough. There is nothing wrong with wanting to improve things, as long as we’re not trying to fix ourselves.…

Love is like a great parent, (s)he will address you at your own level, speak to you in a way that you will understand. And when you fall, (s)he will assess your resilience and give you the help you need to get in the game again. (S)he will never tell you that you are stupid,…

Okay, I’m just gonna say it: unconditional love really is the most ridiculous term ever invented. I mean, really, as if there is something called ‘conditional love’. There isn’t, because then by definition, it isn’t love anymore. Love is inclusive. There are no exceptions. I’ve been practicing this concept for quite some time now. I’m…

If I were a sitcom, it would be hysterical! Imagine a zealous Mother Superior, a pretentious artist, a wannabe guru, a mysterious mystic, the glamorous yet capricious Miss Piggy, and an assertive six-year old Mouse named Ieniemienie all living together in one house in the Big Apple. This week I met up with the characters.…

I love journaling. To me journaling is different from writing in a diary. Writing in a diary is a form of recording. Journaling is a way to plug into the subconscious mind and giving it a voice. I have found it to be an amazing tool to find answers that are not as straightforward as…