A decent coaching session takes about an hour, 90 minutes if we’re digging deep. Sometimes, though, you just need a quick tip and a reminder that you’re not alone to get you back on track.This one is only scary until you try it once; our group of writers is friendly, welcoming, and supportive. My writing community,…
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You’ve heard this a million bazillion times already: get a journal and write in it! Record your thoughts, feelings, memories, fantasies–it’s good for you! Better yet, start a Gratitude Journal! That will save your life! Stop rolling your eyes. A journal is a practical tool for getting you back in the writing saddle. Every skill…
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A decent coaching session takes about an hour, 90 minutes if we’re digging deep. Sometimes, though, you just need a quick tipand a reminder that you’re not alone to get you back on track. This one is simple, life-affirming, and entirely under-rated. But that’s not a productive use of time, you say? Pshah! You are mistaken,…
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I am in love with this article by Markham Heid: Why the Stressed Brain Falls Back on Old Habits. Read it. Gain some clarity. Inform your rebel self, the one who breaks good habits and exerts her willpower over your good intentions, that if she lets you establish some of those good habits she thinks…
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Full disclosure: It’s actually 3 minutes and 33 seconds. I share my brain with OCD tendencies and she says three threes are better than one. I let her have her way with certain things, like setting the timer, so she won’t feel the need to throw a tantrum later on and refuse to let me…
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This morning in the Hashtag Micro Retreat I chose #fires. I wrote through some complex feelings, relived a recent conversation about resiliency, and ended up speculating about my grandparents and great-grandparents and how much better equipped I am now to understand what they went through: Fleeing pogroms, successive emigrations in search of safety and survival,…
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I ordered something online, but it wasn’t what I got. Scrolling through Instagram, I came across an ad for a convertible laptop desk that was perfect for writing in bed, on the couch, hell, even sitting on the floor of your dorm room. Sometimes my room resembles a dorm room, so I got excited and…
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If you’re like me, you get as much or more work done sitting up in bed than at your desk or the dining room table, which, let’s be real, get overrun by other people and their stuff and my stuff and your stuff and everyone’s stuff way too quickly. You know what solves that problem?…
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It’s one thing to understand your past motivation and why it was harmful, it’s another to let it go — and yet another to find a new one that works. This is the third post in this series, which began with Superachiever On The Run. Do Something Now Your Future Self Will Thank You For…
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For most of my life, I attached fear, future guilt, and avoiding shame to everything I did, from choosing what to wear to dinner with friends to going the extra mile for a client. I was anxious all the time and, since it was all the time, I had no idea it wasn’t normal. I…
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