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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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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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Burning Rage

Posted in Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, tagged , , on September 23, 2011 | 3 Comments »

This is a very personal post. It is the result of trauma that occurred because my voice was muted. I see this “dream” and the writing of it is as the whisper of my returning voice (a loud stage whisper, perhaps?).  Rage, which is a socially unacceptable emotion, especially for women, is coming forward and [...]

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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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Julia Cameron on Morning Pages

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, tagged , , , , on May 31, 2010 | 4 Comments »

  Read an interview with me about how The Artist’s Way and Morning Pages changed my life at Creative Voyage   The Artist’s Way Morning Pages Journal  

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Steppingstones to a new life

Posted in It's all About Me, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Looking for the Spiritual, Memoir, Writing & Career, tagged , , , , , on May 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Yesterday morning in my journal I wrote: I am blessed with abundance. I am blessed with the answer. I am a magnet to all the resources I need. What is the answer? I need to know what path to go down today. This morning I wrote: Oh, lawd! I feel like a puzzle piece just [...]

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On a quest to find the truth

Posted in Healing, Memoir, tagged , , , , on April 13, 2010 | 4 Comments »

I’m sitting here in this hotel room and suddenly I’m struck dumb. No fighting children to break apart, no dinner to prepare, no responsibilities. I could write all night if I so wished. But nope, nothing. Too quiet, no time limit. But I’m not here to write this blog post anyway. Truth is, I came [...]

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Quoting Natalie: Getting close to our genuine self

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, tagged , , , on April 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Writing is about getting close to our genuine self and the authentic way we see. – Natalie Goldberg, Thunder and Lightning When I a junior in high school my journal was a chunky spiral-bound notebook with ’1988′ written in big black bubble letters on the cover. I don’t recall much of what I wrote but [...]

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A journaling resource

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, tagged , , on March 31, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Below is a copy of the index page at my little corner of Examiner.com where I am the Burlington Journaling Examiner (which really cracks me up – as if there are “journaling examiners” anywhere else in the world, let alone Vermont!). I share this list as a simple menu for any blog readers whose order [...]

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