Archive for The Artist’s Way

CAN YOU GIVE YOURSELF 5 MINUTES TO DO WHAT YOU LOVE TODAY?

Simplify. Simplify. Simplify.  This rule holds true even when fulfilling our deepest dreams and desires.  I have found from experience that a simple beginning on a project or a passion is all that is needed to ignite my internal flame and bring more joy into your life.  During my last Soul Coaching group in February, I made [...]

Take the 7 Day TV/Reading Deprivation Challenge!

For those of you that follow me on Facebook, you know that Sunday I began a 7 day reading and TV detox.  That’s right, no reading or TV for one week.  The reading detox is part of  The Artist’s Way curriculum.  “Each of us is a unique, creative individual.  But we often blur that uniqueness with sugar, [...]

CAN A MATERIAL GIRL REALLY LEARN TO EMBRACE SIMPLICITY?

The universe has such an incredible sense of humor.  I have been taught humility time and time again by having to embrace things that previously repulsed me.  For example, today I do not eat sugar and I do not drink alcohol.  There was a time in my life when I would not have been your friend if [...]

WHAT WILL THE NEW YEAR BE LIKE? I WONDER!

This is one of my favorite lines from one of my favorite movies, The Sound of Music.  Ok, I have modified it slightly.  In the movie, Julia Andrew’s character Maria actually asks “What will this day be like?  I wonder. What will my future be? I wonder.”   Today, I strive to live my life from a place of [...]

WHAT WOULD YOUR 80 YEAR OLD AND 8 YEAR OLD SELVES REVEAL TO YOU?

In my Artist’s Way group a few weeks ago, Julia Cameron had us do a powerful letter writing exercise.  She asked us to consider what we would say to our present day self from two different perspectives – our 8 year old self, and our 80 year old self.  I can’t describe for you how profound [...]

CONFRONTING FEAR – THE BREAKDOWN BEFORE THE BREAKTHROUGH

I have been stuck.  Paralyzed.  Stopped.  I completed my TV detox in early August and came face to face with my inner most thoughts and it wasn’t pretty. During these last few weeks I would love to say I took everything I learned about confronting my fears, being present in my life, not escaping when [...]

THE TV CHALLENGE – SURRENDER TV FOR 30 DAYS!

So, as most of you know, as a “student” of the teachings of Eckhart Tolle and Pema Chodron, I am on a personal quest to build my level of presence in my life.  I have closed a lot of the obvious “run” spots which for me included excess food, alcohol, and caffeine (which keeps me unconscious by [...]

GIVE UP CAFFEINE – WAKE UP EARLIER!

Every time I take the bold step to give up caffeine I wake up earlier and more effortlessly.  Can’t be so you say.  Yes folks..I can no longer deny it – when I stop drinking caffeine, I get up earlier!  I believe it’s because caffeine interferes with my body’s natural biorhythms and without caffeine my body’s natural [...]

Where are YOU on the daily "To Do" List?

When I was beginning my self-discovery journey I remember hearing “It’s like the old airplane adage – put your oxygen mask on first and you will have more to give others”.  Really?  I had it backwards – my motto was “take care of everyone else than crash”! Me time?  You have to be kidding!  Fast [...]