It’s happened again. An old theme has come circling around, adding another new level of understanding. June 2009: I wrote this post on a different blog, which I then re-posted here in July 2011. This is the gist: During a Journal Therapy training I wrote (well, it kind of wrote itself while I held the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘anxiety’
Again with the Tension?! (Or, It’s OK not to know)
Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Looking for the Spiritual, tagged alpha poems, anxiety, Christina Baldwin, serendipity on December 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Tolerating Fear
Posted in Envisioning the Future, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Thinking Positively, Writing & Career, tagged anxiety, fear, natalie goldberg, serendipity 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 [...]
Quoting Natalie: Tolerating fear
Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Looking for the Spiritual, Writing & Career, tagged anxiety, fear, natalie goldberg, serendipity on March 12, 2010 | 7 Comments »
“First recognize that you’re afraid and slowly build your tolerance for fear… … You may still feel it, but you become willing to bear it as you write. You keep your hand moving, you stay there, you move closer and closer to the edge of what scares you.” – Natalie Goldberg, Thunder and Lightning I [...]
Perpetuating our own truth
Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Life, Home & Community, Living Authentically, Memoir, tagged anxiety, authenticity, getting older on December 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Even before I got out of the car I questioned why I was here. I had pulled myself away from a cozy fire and good company to go out into a chilly, damp December night. I was about to walk into an overheated crowd of locals, some of whom I hadn’t seen for twenty years [...]





