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inspiration, insights, and tools help you write your way free
Walking the path
I have been dreaming a lot about paths. I do my best in given circumstances, but sometimes I fuck up, I fall down, and do things that aren't always good for me. But I keep writing and walking. The path is mine; I’m on the right road.
Start somewhere
We all learn by doing, and adjust as we go. And when it comes to rediscovering yourself, making changes, and making meaning in your life, it's a process. And you have to get moving.
“I’m afraid of what I’ll uncover if I start writing.”
Just because something is on the page doesn’t mean you have to act on it right away. You don’t have to do a damn thing with it at all if you don’t want to. But it’s still good. Cause you can work with the truth.
Thank you, more please
Learn how the simple act of paying attention and responding with “thank you, more please” will beget more and more reasons to say “thank you, more please”.
Writing to a life beyond cliches
I’ll bet you’ve heard Mary Oliver’s poem The Summer Day – or at least the iconic final line: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” and felt a longing to live that way. But are you …?
Apologies, guts, and stories
I realized that the only way the women in my workshops might stop apologizing, minimizing, and doubting their stories, experiences, and worth was to hold a mirror up to it.