creating life

Yesterday, I put my mom and my niece on a plane, marking the end of three weeks of unparalleled family fun. Today, I turn toward my book and prepare to spend the heart of the fall creating. I’ve been reading Flora Bowley’s book, Brave Intuitive Painting, and it’s...

letting there be room

We are in major summer celebration mode! My family is here in San Diego for my mom’s 70th birthday. Two words: Family. Circus. Loving being together, the conversations that happen because we’re hanging out all day, lingering, lounging. My friend Jamie is...

courage

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” Anais Nin On Monday night, I spoke at a women’s event at my church, which was such a sweet homecoming for me. I talked about courage, and what it means – to me – to be a person of courage. Courage comes from...

free

“Time spent dedicated to your creativity equals time spent dedicated to creating a more whole version of yourself. It is through the process of listening to your intuition and responding in a fully expressive way that we discover and return to our most authentic...

what good is it?

I went into a bit of a spiral recently, feeling very, very tired (which is always a trigger for me), giving voices of desperation and urgency unlimited airtime in my mind. A panic was rising up inside me—a fear of always feeling tired and depleted, a sense of...