Over the last few weeks I've been writing about creative depletion and the cycle of creative burnout, and creating a cycle of creative renewal. Today it's time to talk about recovering from creative...
In my last post, I wrote about the cycle of creative burnout and how our creative inspiration becomes depleted when we push ourselves too hard and for too long. I'm well acquainted with burnout;...
In my writing community we periodically talk about creative burnout. In our Western culture we work hard, driven by puritanical work ethics, cultural programming, keeping up with the Joneses, guilt,...
Something that often comes up for writers, who are often introverts, empaths, and sensitives, is a feeling of not belonging. I've noticed that this feeling of not belonging often comes up in higher...
I had a lovely chat with a friend recently about applying to a school program she's interested in. She confessed that even though she very much wanted to attend the school, she hadn't yet completed...
I've been writing a lot about staying on course and listening to our own inner guidance about what we're passionate about and called to take action on. Today's post ventures a little father afield...
I've learned to closely examine my tripping points to look for solutions. By tripping points I mean the places in my routine where I fail to see something through to completion, whether it's a...
In the world of coaching, particularly in career and entrepreneurial coaching, much emphasis is put on the question of what you are passionate about. It's a direct result of the "do what you love...
When times get rough and things go wrong, sometimes I wonder if I've misread my intuition or why I wasn't "warned." I don't have an answer for the warnings, exactly. When my friend was in a bad...
Last week I wrote about "how I do it all, or not" and promised to follow up with tricks I know that help (but don't always use) in today's post. Tricks I know but don’t always use #1 Put my own...
A few weeks ago, someone said to me, “I don’t know how you do it all.” The truth is, I don’t. I’m doing a lot, and there is a lot I’m not doing. How I do what I do The key distinction I see between...
There's a lot you want to do. It's important to you, or you wouldn't be doing it. In fact, you wouldn't be here if you didn't believe you had something worth sharing with the world, even if you...