Trauma can make our need to be seen and heard feel desperate at times. It can also make our most destructive patterns, the ones that keep us from seeing our own innate wholeness, totally invisible to us while being obvious …
12 Tips to Overcome Perfectionism for Writers
I’m embarrassed to share this, but I have 65K words in a Scrivener database and 80 unseen blog post drafts collecting dust in WordPress. Hiding is painful, yet reasonable excuses are endless. If we don’t challenge these reasons for hoarding …
Heal Your Inner Critic with the Internal Family Systems Model
You’re sitting down to write and that darn critic inside your head starts with the same old attacks and insults. The inner critic knows exactly what’s needed to trigger your tender inner child’s worst fears of not being good enough, …
Let Go of Control: A Brief Visual Meditation
Life is a practice in letting go. To immerse ourselves in the present moment, we must let go of control, and let go of stories that no longer hold true. When we practice letting go without resistance, we allow ourselves …
How I Brainstorm – Quick Tour of My Business Grimoire
I love the glide of a fine tip, black gel ink pen on fresh textured paper. Writing this way feels like my heart and mind are pouring out through the ink in slow motion. When I need a blank canvas …
Do You Self-Sabotage by Taking on Too Much at Once?
Do you self-sabotage by underestimating how much time you need to get things done? One of the biggest causes of overwhelm is underestimating how much time a task will actually take to complete, and taking on too much as a …
Release Perfectionism and Reach Goals Through Self-Acceptance
Perfectionism is a stealthy beast. It puts a strain on bodily systems and cripples self-worth. It’s a fractured lens through which to see the world. The perfectionism lens can make us think we, and others, need to live up to …
3 Things Every HSP Can Do to Finally Complete Creative Projects
Don’t you wish you could just wiggle your nose like Samantha from Bewitched and magic would complete your creative projects? I’ve been trying to master that skill since I was in grade school. No such luck! It can be hard …
Overcome Information Overload and Connect to Your Intuition
Are you suffering from information overload? Do you have so many ideas you feel paralyzed and can’t start your next project? At this point, you can’t feel the difference between healthy realism and crippling self-doubt? Many of us get stuck in …
Is It Healthy Realism or Crippling Self-Doubt?
People are always saying “trust your intuition,” but how can you tell when it’s self-doubt talking and not your inner wisdom? How do you know if you have a realistic perspective or if fear is keeping you from taking risks? …
Don’t Let Sour Grapes Keep You From Enjoying Life
Have you ever heard the term “sour grapes” from the fable The Fox and the Grapes by Aesop? The fox in the story attempts to reach a bunch of grapes on an out of reach vine. He fails in his …
Responsibility vs. Self-Interest
My husband thinks we should be able to take our dog to the dog park and let her run around. I’d love that, but she needs socialization training. She gets overly-excited and jumps on other dogs. She doesn’t pick up …
Develop Productive Emotional Habits through Self-Awareness and Intentional Action
Have you ever felt so upset by an argument with your loved one or friend it made your work-day suffer? You felt distracted, exhausted, and totally preoccupied with what you said or wished you said. When you went to bed …
I Finally Figured Out How to Bend Spoons With My Mind
I had an acquaintance-type friend once who joined a spiritual spoon-bending cult. He told me about it at a backyard party. I didn’t know anyone other than magicians took the endeavor quite so literally. While I’ve never successfully tried to …
Healing Advice for When You Feel Lost
Sometimes the answers are the easy ones, the ones that have been echoing in your head since the beginning. Clear the way for that voice. Release the habits that confuse or muddle that voice. You have a gift for creating …
How I Learned to Focus My Chaotic Brain
Focus might seem like an elusive luxury of unburdened minds, but there are secrets to building the superpower of prolonged attention.
14 Ways to Help a Hurting World Without Losing Your Mind
Staying committed to speaking up against injustice is crucial for us conscious creatives. We feel deeply connected and called to serve, witness and heal in whatever capacity we’re able.
Self-Criticism is Hurting Your Business. Here’s What to Do About It.
Have you ever found an online entrepreneur you were really jazzed about only to be bombarded with negativity masked as inspiration? They tell you the only way to happiness is to run your own business. Maybe they believe if you’re …
How to Stop Being So Critical of Yourself [Exercises and Worksheet]
I remember watching my adoptive mother look at herself in the mirror and say, “I look like 10 lbs. of crap in a 2 lb. bag,” with her Queens, NY accent and her hands grabbing at her belly. She regularly beat up on herself emotionally. Every time I heard her, it broke my heart. When I criticize myself now, I know it’s her voice I hear in my head.
