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When you feel like you’re not doing enough
Last week I had an awful moment one day where I felt like I was sitting squarely in that valley-wide gap between where I am and where I want to be. I felt despair. In that moment, I could not see...
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Creating during the rough times
A reader wrote me with this question recently (and gave me permission to share it here): Lately I have a number of unexpected stresses in my life that have descended on me all at once. Almost every...
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What would make it easier?
Several months ago, I led a small group of my clients through a support session to help them with fears that were coming up around their creative projects. They were all nearing the finish line and...
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There’s no “right way” to be social during the holidays
Sometimes when I look back, I cringe at all the pressure I used to put on myself to be “differently social” than I actually am, especially during holiday times. I am an introvert (and no, by that I do...
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Are you at the top of your mountain?
I have to admit that I’ve felt overwhelmed by the flurry of goal-setting blog posts, announcements, and what have you as we’ve begun the new year. In fact, I’ve entered the new year in a bit of...
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The difference between self-care and self-indulgence
I have to admit that I’ve been pretty on edge lately. At times I feel unsafe. The house I rent is up for sale, and I know I need to move soon. Being in limbo mode with my living space brings up all my...
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When you’re overwhelmed, get specific
Something I’ve noticed while working with clients who are “overwhelmed” is that, often, we remain in overwhelm because we are not getting specific enough. We’re not specific about what exactly it means...
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Radical self-care: when your “normal” has changed
As I’ve been working with clients in my Stellar Self-Care program, I notice how the tendency for many of us is to keep going on “as usual” — even though our lives have changed. Maybe a health issue...
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Allowing yourself to dream fully
Sometimes, when we realize we want to make changes in our lives — to show up more fully, to get our creative work out into the world — we hit a kind of wall. The wall is at once universal (we all...
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Bringing the joy back to your creative work
Recently, a writer friend and I had a great conversation about what to do during those periods when you feel like the joy has simply evaporated from your creative work (or your life!). The talk got me...
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Walking my talk about self-care + Happy Fall!
Maybe the hardest thing for me about going through a time of heightened activity (or, insanely heightened activity) is coming down from it all. After the last couple of months of transitioning from my...
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You only ever need to do one thing
Yesterday I was having one of those days where my mind spun with all that I was sure needed to be done. I sat at my kitchen table, staring out the window, trying frantically to access peace (as if...
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Welcoming the conscious pause
Conscious paws are always welcome 🍃 Somewhere on the continuum between torturous procrastination and frenetic “just so I feel like I’m doing something” action is a place of pausing. Of breathing. Of...
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How time distortions keep you from getting things done
I love how this clock looks like it has cat ears. Here at the beginning of a new year, a curious phenomenon has arisen in the work I’ve been doing with my coaching clients. It comes down to this: what...
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Why the downtime you “sneak” doesn’t really count
The other night, I stayed up much later than usual, watching a marathon of the HGTV show Fixer Upper and eating taco-flavored Doritos. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but I paid for it with...
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Inauthentic — or unfamiliar?
There’s something I sometimes notice in people who are sensitive, creative, and for whom authenticity is a deeply-held value. We frequently believe we can’t/shouldn’t/won’t do something because it...
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There’s no right way to process change
Many of us here in the U.S. are struggling to cope with our feelings about the results of our election this week. One of the themes I’ve noticed over the past several days, for myself as well as...
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Keeping self-care simple during the holidays
This year, as I did some fine-tuning of my Stellar Self-Care Coaching Program (which is currently on hiatus but will return in 2017), the message that kept coming up was that, when it comes to...
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The question that cuts through your overwhelm
A week ago I returned from a coaching intensive (which I’ll no doubt share more about in the future), feeling one part energized, two parts exhausted. I had that good feeling of having stretched...
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The power of evening pages and “it’s done” lists
If you are a regular reader of my posts, you know that I am a big proponent of morning pages. They are part of my morning ritual, part of my creative process. And they never feel like a chore to me — I...
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