A client recently told me that she wants to write a book. To have a place where she could document her journey through severe depression and how awakening her creativity helped her out of it. I love the idea and feel like it could help so many people. BUT here’s the thing I told her to watch out for: The big idea of the “book” could be enough to keep her not actually living the sentiment of what she wants to write in it ...
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That crap you’re dealing with at work. Deciding whether or not you want to stay in this relationship. The habit of STILL saying yes to things you don’t want to do, even after all the self-helping you’ve put yourself through. Getting ill. Getting tax-audited. Fuuuuuuuuuck. I’m not here to depress you or remind you of all the crap that might be your problem. I’m here to pose a question for you ...
Read morea time to dance and a time to pause.
To my dearest Creative Fridays tribe, As you might have heard, “Dance-A-Day, in the month of May” is in full swing this month. It’s rocking my world. (You can still join us if you haven’t yet!). I’ll be taking a little pause from our regular Friday posts here to focus my energy on completing my book and rocking out the daily dance prompts. (You might hear from me on random occasions, though!). Here are some ways to stay connected ...
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On this Creative Friday, or shall we call it Cinco de Danza, I’m going to let dance speak for me. Because I’m tired. Because it’s been a rough week. Because I’m realizing how I can overcomplicate or overexplain things when actually all that’s needed is a dance. Here’s my dance video and story. I hope you dance, too, ...
Read morethe kind of dance that’s needed with urgency.
Back in the spring of 2014, I walked to the park to find a place to dance. It was the kind of dance that was needed with urgency. It was the kind of urgency that was felt at the start of spring, when new life is ready to bust out from all angles. It was the kind of spring that was much needed after a long winter. And it called for the body to MOVE, to shake off the winter, to welcome in spring, to find release in the midst of a transition ...
Read moreif it feels forced, it doesn’t fit.
The photo you see here of me and Mochi, the 6-month-old puppy, is part of the reason why I didn’t write to you last Friday. Puppy-sitting for a week turns out to be quite the job (along with the million other personal things that seemed to come up in the same week… and I have a sense I’m not alone in that sentiment!). But beyond the puppy - What I had planned to write - the start of a 5-part series on the roadblocks to dancing ...
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