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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 … ]

Writing a fairy tale will uncover what lies beyond your ordinary ways of looking

August 22, 2023

Creative breakthroughs happen when we perceive what lies beyond our ordinary ways of looking….  writing a fairy tale will give you that shift of perception.  Fairy tales offer insightful, surprising answers that we can’t get any other way. 💡 In this youtube video, I guide you in writing your own fairy tale…a quick way to [ Read more … ]

my new article in Spirituality + Health magazine

August 17, 2023

“Most of us typically associate metaphor with the flowery language that poets use or with things that are made up: ‘That’s just a metaphor.’ In other words, we typically treat metaphors as outside of ourselves, when in fact they are the deep, sensory, intuitive language of the feeling center of our brain. To say that metaphor is [ 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 … ]

It’s impossible to learn if we already believe we know.

August 8, 2023

The ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus said, “It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.” When you know something in your mind to be true, is there open space in your mind for another view? Not likely. When we’re certain that we “know,” we’re at risk of trouble, because we [ Read more … ]

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