You Wanna Be Creative – When Life Has Other Plans

You Wanna Be Creative – When Life Has Other Plans

You Wanna Be Creative – When Life Has Other Plans You Wanna Be Creative.* What stands between you and your creative expression? The view to the other sideImage by javier alamo from Pixabay We can get frustrated when we’re not hitting our creative goals. The...
Claim the Artist’s Parallel Life

Claim the Artist’s Parallel Life

Claim the Artist’s Parallel Life Do you call yourself an artist? After spending the month of June in an online gathering led by author-choreographer-activist Andrew Simonet, I’ve been giving this question a lot of consideration. Andrew had us investigating the...
An Inner Writer Group?

An Inner Writer Group?

An Inner Writer Group? You know the psychological theory of how ‘parts’ operate within each of us, right? It’s based on the Internal Family Systems (IFS) framework, originated in the 1980s by Richard Schwartz. You’ve probably heard of it, and may in fact have...
Coaching in the Space Between

Coaching in the Space Between

Coaching in the Space Between I like to say that coaching happens in the space between the client and the coach. During our time together, we put the rest of the world on ‘pause’ and devote our joint attention to the client and their creative life. It’s not therapy,...
What Makes a Book Successful?

What Makes a Book Successful?

What Makes a Book Successful? As they do for many children, books gave me a means of escape: reading was (still is) the best kind of dissociation. From the time I learned to read, I was eager to give myself and my reality over to an author, many of them dead, whose...