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Retreat

This crash had been coming a long time and my retreat wasn’t a quiet withdrawal, it was more a full-blown defeat. My inner supply of whatever it was I needed to go on was done. Someone said to me recently, ‘But you don’t work. You don’t have a job.’ I know what he meant. I […]

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100 Day Creative Challenge Day 59

100 Day Creative Challenge Day 59: Safe Haven We all need a safe place to create. A place where you share your vulnerability. Sharing your creative work is vulnerable. It comes from the spirit and soul and heart and mind.   If even our relationship with our work is fraught with insecurity and doubt and […]

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One Hundred Day Challenge: Day 26

Christmas is over for another year and as our our thoughts move to plans for 2016, I’m thinking over the idea of Recovering a Sense of Possibility.  For the next week I’m working through Chapter Five of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity. Too often we look at the past year […]

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The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 17

The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 17 Oh the cringe factor of reading my first book! It’s not TERRIBLE, it’s just that I see the errors, the poor writing, the ways in which I have changed as a person since I write those words ten years ago. It’s like that 80’s hairstyle that my […]

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The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 16

The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day16 I am an obedient sort of person. A rule-keeper rather than a rule-breaker. I always wait for the green light to cross. I don’t enter when it says ‘Don’t Enter.’ I want to do the ‘right’ thing. When it comes to writing the temptation to always seek permission […]

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Let Go and Believe

Dear Brené, Well, we’ve made it to the end of Rising Strong. When I embarked on the adventure of an online book club with Amanda and Jodie, I didn’t realise how exposed we’d all feel by the process. Amanda, Jodie and I have something in common—if we do something, we do it wholeheartedly. Maybe that’s […]

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One Rumble At A Time

Dear Brené, As I’ve rumbled with shame, identity, criticism and nostalgia I see that I’ve cut off parts of my true self, silenced parts. In being the name of being tough and strong and resilient I’ve created emotional orphans. If you’re  not living wholeheartedly you forget how to really be yourself. Being vulnerable and recognizing that I […]

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The Brave and Brokenhearted

Dear Brené, As I dive into Rising Strong my life is being edited to pieces. The story is getting more convoluted and messy—more a *SFD than a polished piece of work. In my head there’s this idealized version of my life. Sort of like the website It’s Like They Know Us. https://www.facebook.com/itsliketheyknowus?fref=ts But in real life […]

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Rumbling With the Dark Side

Dear Brené, Well, we’ve made it to Chapter Four. Amanda’s become a ninja and is having an online personality crisis. Jodie tried to skip Day Two, but found it impossible—just like you said she would. I’m going to be straight with you, I don’t’ want to go into the Dark Cave of Reckoning. In fact, […]

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