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5 Creative Ways to Calm Your Busy Mind

Ever feel like your thoughts are all competing in a relay race but you never actually manage to hand off the baton from one to the next? Instead you keep dropping the baton and going back to pick up another? This busyness can be caused be an excess of creative ideas, an overly long to-do list, the crush of worry and anxiety about anything and everything or just the sheer flood of information that comes your way every day.

I have found 5 activities centered around creative expression that ca…

Draw Like a Kindergartner and Other Ways to Bring More Creativity into your Day

About 10 years ago, I got really serious about my creative practice. I started to explore painting and mixed media. I've always been a writer and adding the visual arts to my regular creative practice changed my life.

For the past decade I have been using visual and verbal arts as a means of self-discovery and a powerful tool for personal growth. I've learned so much about myself on this journey. A few years ago I asked myself what might be possible if I put art at the center of my life ins…

5 Benefits of a Consistent Creative practice for navigating midlife

Something interesting and predictable tends to happen to women in midlife. You find yourself yearning to reconnect to your creativity. In fact, this longing is so common that it is essential to one of the stages of the Heroine's Journey as described by Maureen Murdock in her popular book The Heroine's Journey: A Woman's Quest for Wholeness. She calls this stage an "urgent yearning to return to the feminine" which includes reconnecting to our desire for authentic creative expression.

While t…

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5 Creative Ways to Calm Your Busy Mind

Draw Like a Kindergartner and Other Ways to Bring More Creativity into your Day

5 Benefits of a Consistent Creative practice for navigating midlife

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