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You’ve Got This Babe. You Don’t Have to Keep Kicking the Can.

November 12, 2019

You’ve Got This Babe. You Don’t Have to Keep Kicking the Can.

I have yet to work with a client who needs more training in order to achieve her life purpose and express her creative gifts. In fact, it’s amazing how many smart people (especially women) collect endless certifications and credentials and spend all kinds of money (and time) on training after training, because they fear their [ Read more … ]

Having the Courage to Speak Up

August 13, 2019

Having the Courage to Speak Up

I’ve always had trouble voicing things… speaking up for myself, calling out deception, and owning my own value and worth. When I was growing up, my mother would always tell me, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” I wasn’t sure that whatever I was thinking was nice, so I stuffed my [ Read more … ]

Be Too Much

August 3, 2019

Be Too Much

I work with so many clients who have ‘big energy.’ They worry about being ‘too much,’ they want to be nice and fit in. But artists are people who can’t live in that place of ‘fitting in’…that’s not what they’re ABOUT. Their GIFT is to be TOO MUCH. I’m reminded of something the film critic [ Read more … ]

Imagination is subversive

July 16, 2019

Imagination is subversive

It lives in a place that’s beyond social conditioning.

What is ‘good’ writing?

July 12, 2019

What is ‘good’ writing?

Occasionally I run into someone who tells me that he or she is a good writer, and for whatever reason, this has happened to me recently with two former graduate students. With both of them (bless their hearts),  I thought, “huh?”  To my mind, neither of these individuals are good writers. Smart, capable, creative, interesting, [ Read more … ]

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