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You don’t need to find your words, you need to find your image. Images help us find our depth.

September 12, 2023

During the many years that I led creative writing workshops, I noticed something interesting about the thing invited deep writing. Some writing prompts–often involving words or newspaper headlines–kept people entrenched in analytical thinking and… their subsequent writing was heady and dry.  Their writing might have been slick and witty, but it was rarely deep or [ Read more … ]

Six ways to break your creative blocks

September 5, 2023

Six Ways to Break Your Creative Blocks. Give yourself both internal and external space. Creativity needs space. Pursue what’s important to YOU. Creativity is intrinsically motivated. Embrace your full vision. For your creativity to flourish, it wants your biggest vision. Weed out the things and situations that you find draining or dull, and instead feed [ Read more … ]

When we prioritize creativity, we prioritize our life force energy and vitality

August 29, 2023

When we prioritize creativity, we prioritize our life force energy and vitality. When we prioritize vitality, we invigorate and renew every aspect of our lives.  On that note, love this quote from Carl Jung: “All the greatest and most important problems of life are fundamentally insoluble. Some higher or wider interest appeared on the person’s [ Read more … ]

Don’t tell me there isn’t a Spirit world. 🔥

August 17, 2023

Yesterday was a rough day. My elderly 19-year-old dog peed AND pooped in my car. 🙁 In a fit of exasperation–having too much to do, it was terribly hot out, and I needed to pack for a trip–when I cleaned up the poop I threw out the feathers that I’d found in the days after [ Read more … ]

Play takes us beyond the bounds of what our minds think is reasonable

August 15, 2023

Perhaps the reason why creativity is given short shrift in academia is because it has a light, playful energy, rather than the heavy, dense energy of facts, charts, research….and heavy books that have been sitting in dusty corners of the library for a hundred years. I got my Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and [ Read more … ]

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