Category: Creativity
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Bouncing Back, Boundaries, and Big News
Spring Equinox 2023 Spring feels far off as I write from my childhood home in cold, blustery Kansas, so I hold tight to the image of the verdant hills I left behind in California. Recently, my daughter and I seized the opportunity to plant tulip bulbs on a sunny day between soaking storms there. Fearful…
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Careful What You Wish For
In the year since publishing Down and Back, I’ve been pulled to focus on family and the needs of others by facing new and unexpected challenges – illness, death, moves – all of which pulled me further from my own center and my love of writing. In the midst of taking care of others, I…
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Finding Light in the Dark
Creative, empathic, sensitive folks are the light-bearers of the world when they align with the immense power of consciousness that wants to flow through them. When this power isn’t recognized or you step out of flow, it can turn on you. The blessing becomes the curse as you tumble into overwhelm, anxiety, depression, and disconnection…
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How to Find What’s Missing
It’s been a long winter for some, dampening dispositions along with our usually sunny California skies. Perhaps weathering life lately has been a challenge, and despite the clouds lifting all around, your mood isn’t. You’re not depressed exactly, but certainly not pumped. You’re busy in the daily routine, going through the motions. and not looking…
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Creativity is Intuition in Action
The first white flower popped open on the plum tree outside my kitchen window today. Yesterday, there was nothing but stark gray-brown branches. By days’ end, it will explode with life. There’s no holding back this creative force. It runs deeply in each one of us. It is Nature, and thus our nature, to grow…