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Authentic Voice Project: B is for Belly

Posted in Authentic Voice Project, Emerging Voice, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, tagged 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 [...]

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Authentic Voice Project: A is for Anger

Posted in Authentic Voice Project, Emerging Voice, Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, tagged , 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 [...]

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The Authentic Voice Project

Posted in Authentic Voice Project, Emerging Voice, Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Thinking Positively, tagged , 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 [...]

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Do you need a map or a box of chocolates?

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Looking for the Spiritual, tagged , , , on December 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I have to thank Mark Matousek, with whom I took a class at the Therapeutic Writing Institute, for his insightful article in Psychology Today: What’s Your Metaphor? Shifting Shapes In The New Year. This post is my response. Having never asked myself what word or phrase I consider my life metaphor, and how it affects [...]

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Hallelujah!

Posted in In my Humble Opinion, Living Authentically, Looking for the Spiritual, tagged , , , on December 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

It would be a stretch to say that all Christmas music is beautiful. Every year when turkey-leftover soup is still very much on the menu and I find myself in a store singing along with some ear-gnawing song, I cringe with self-derision. But the Christmas carols, the ones I have heard and sung since birth, [...]

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Trust your pen

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Looking for the Spiritual, Writing & Career, tagged , , , on December 2, 2011 | 5 Comments »

I have to share a beautiful experience that speaks to the power of the pen to tap into something deeper and older than we can explain. This morning I was reading The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler. I won’t go into all the emotions this book arouses in me but I cannot emphasize [...]

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Gotta dance!

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Memoir, tagged , , on November 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »

When I was a very little girl I loved to dance. Once a week my Nana would take me to the Senior Center (which in England I think they used to call the Old Age Pensioner’s Club – nice) so I could gavotte around for their entertainment. I loved it. And I almost killed my [...]

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An open letter to those who are human

Posted in Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, tagged , , , , , , , , , on November 19, 2011 | 4 Comments »

C.P. Estes (author of Women Who Run With the Wolves) always addresses her readers as “Dear Brave Souls.” I do not know her exact reasoning for this but I can guess that she knows how much courage it takes to live in this world, to face the pains and heartbreaks, unknowns and setbacks. But even [...]

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A turret and some (alone) time

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Writing & Career, tagged , , , on November 15, 2011 | 12 Comments »

I’m sitting in my new Writer’s Turret, as I am calling it. It’s actually just a small room we recently created by putting up a dividing wall in our son’s large bedroom. It is a north-facing room and I was concerned that I would feel the lack of light. But with my desk directly next [...]

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Hungry fingers. Or, What brings you joy.

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, tagged , on October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

This is going to be one of those posts where I just start writing in order to figure out what I’m going to write about. Which, dear writerly friends, is a very good way to start writing. Just write something. Anything. You’ll get where you need to go in just a little while. October has [...]

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