The Authentic Voice Project: Week 4 (New Moon) D is for Drive Society says: Drive is good. Drive is what allows one to come from nothing and go to something. Drive makes the downtrodden get up, turns the girl next door into the celebrity on the hill, and gives the death-diagnosis a bill of good [...]
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Authentic Voice Project: D is for Drive
Posted in Authentic Voice Project, Emerging Voice, tagged authentic voice, authenticity, voice on February 21, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Trust the Process (part 11): Re-turning
Posted in Emerging Voice, Journaling Techniques & Prompts on February 15, 2012 | 2 Comments »
On the eve of my fourth residency at Goddard College as a IMA-TLA student (Individualized Masters in Transformative Language Arts), I am sitting on the upper level of a gym as my son and two dozen other miniature humans are noisily jumping, swinging, rolling, and springing below me. Might as well be another planet from [...]
Authentic Voice Project: C is for Contentment
Posted in Authentic Voice Project, Emerging Voice, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Looking for the Spiritual on February 7, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The Authentic Voice Project: Week 3 (Full Moon) C is for Contentment Ahhh, contentment. Society says: Contentment is swinging on a hammock while staring at the sky. It is walking along a beach, hand-in-hand with your love, golden retriever bounding by your side. At least that’s what the commercials would have us believe. But most [...]
Authentic Voice Project: B is for Belly
Posted in Authentic Voice Project, Emerging Voice, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, tagged authentic voice on January 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Authentic Voice Project: Week 2 (New Moon) B is for Belly I considered many “trigger” words for this post: Behavior, Body, Beauty, Blame, but I settled on Belly because… well, I have one. Society says: A woman’s belly should be flat; nay, concave. Low-rise and skinny jeans (practically the only type you can find [...]
Authentic Voice Project: A is for Anger
Posted in Authentic Voice Project, Emerging Voice, Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, tagged anger, emotions on January 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The Authentic Voice Project: Week 1 (Full Moon) AUTHENTIC VOICE As we are beginning with A, I will take a moment to define Authentic Voice as I understand it. I believe we all have an Authentic Voice. It is the one that comes to us from various sources: intuitive insights dreams emotion-body reactions (such as [...]
The Authentic Voice Project
Posted in Authentic Voice Project, Emerging Voice, Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Thinking Positively, tagged authentic voice, words on January 1, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Words. Manifestations of our thoughts. Creators of our internal messages. Words have and continue to shape history and people – not always positively and sometimes with devastating consequences. Words have an affect on us, more powerful than we can rationally understand. The words we have heard all our life, depending on the context in which [...]





