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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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Trust the Process (pt 10): Hiding

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

My natural inclination is to introversion. I usually choose to be alone rather than in a crowd. However, at my first two Goddard College’s residencies for the Individualized Master’s program I went against my own grain. I squeezed in around full lunch tables, joined in conversations in lounges, and laughed over movie showings late (for [...]

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Dear Fearful Ones…

Posted in Living Authentically, Thinking Positively on July 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I offer you another recycled post about facing Fear. I wrote this two years ago during a time of transition. In hindsight I can see that 2009 was a pivotal year for me when I was learning that trying to control life (and the emotions that arise in response to it) is like trying to [...]

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Tolerating Fear

Posted in Envisioning the Future, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Thinking Positively, Writing & Career, tagged , , , on July 20, 2011 | 3 Comments »

This is a recycled post from a couple of years ago. With summer in full , hot swing, the kids are home most days of the week leaving me very little chance to write (the beach and my laptop aren’t great friends). I am yearning to write but when I do have a moment I [...]

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Resume the Stability of Tension

Posted in Envisioning the Future, Living Authentically, Looking for the Spiritual, tagged , , , , , , on July 13, 2011 | 7 Comments »

This is a post from a couple of years ago. I am re-posting it because this phrase – Resume the Stability of Tension – keeps popping back into my mind lately. Although I am in a completely different life situation now (I left my job very soon after this post and started grad school a [...]

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Danger: Toxic levels of self-bashing

Posted in It's all About Me, Life, Home & Community, Living Authentically, tagged , , , on March 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »

This post is a bit of an off-shoot for me but as I write it I will somehow figure out how to make a journaling prompt out of it. And I also know many of you will relate to what I am about to say. I got rejected. By a home-cleaning professional. Let me explain. [...]

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Trust the Process, pt. 8: I Am Matter

Posted in Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Looking for the Spiritual, tagged , , on March 15, 2011 | 4 Comments »

“Are those really concepts? Aren’t they aspects of a woman’s life?” (Referring to the Triple Goddess: Maiden, Mother, Crone) “What it means to be a woman? Don’t you mean what it IS to be a woman?” “Don’t YOU matter?” … “Yes, I do matter. I matter. I AM matter.” And so go conversations at Goddard [...]

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Clothing optional

Posted in Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, tagged , on March 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »

When I arrived at Kripalu Yoga Center to teach a spirituality writing workshop, part of the welcome by a staff member was an invitation to use the whirlpool and sauna… “clothing optional.” At the time I thought nothing of that statement, I may even have dismissed it with a small laugh. The next day, after two [...]

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When opportunity knocks… and hands you a gift

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Thinking Positively, tagged , , , , , on February 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday I received a card through the mail. Inside was a magnet that read: “When opportunity knocks don’t be the one who says, ‘Can somebody get that?’” This gift was from Kay Adams, founder and director of the Center for Journal Therapy, and it represents a bigger gift which she gave me when she called out [...]

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