Category Archives: Creativity & Self-Expression

All of us are creative—not just those who call themselves Artists with a capital A. Our creativity is Divinely Sourced—as essential to sustaining life as oxygen, water, and food. We don’t need to learn how to be more creative. We are born creative; it is our nature. We need to learn how to recognize and transform the layers of fear and limiting beliefs that block us from freely accessing all the creativity we already carry within us. We are creating in every moment in every area of our lives. It is a matter of what we choose to create. When I cling to fear and limiting beliefs, I create misery and lack for myself and everyone I encounter with everything I think, say, and do. When I choose to embrace love, with its attributes of respect, curiosity, compassion, and gratitude, everything I say and do creates a sense of generous, effortless, gracious flow filled with faith, hope, prosperity, peace, and joy for every being, encounter, and experience.

There Are No Mistakes

An art teacher once divided his class into two groups. The first group’s assignment? Create a masterpiece. They were told they had three weeks to develop their brilliant ideas into perfectly polished pieces worthy of the finest museums and galleries. The second group’s … Continue reading

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What Are You Waiting For?

Do you have things you’ve filed away in the “maybe someday” pile?  Do some of them come to mind again and again but you tell yourself you just don’t have the time, money or space in your life to make them a reality? … Continue reading

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Simmering Your Way to Success

One of the core affirmations of Reiki Practitioners is, “May I learn my lessons quickly and gently and help others do so as well.” The Universe continues to provide opportunities to practice what I preach multiple times a day. Here’s … Continue reading

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Creating a Life You Love

Often, at the close of the year, we take stock and set goals for the future. We think about the Life we dream of, identifying destructive habits we’d like to leave behind and new, more constructive, ones we’d like to embody. We all … Continue reading

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The Creative Call

The sound may be faint as the stirring of butterfly wings or as loud as a brass band on Fourth of July. Or you may not hear a sound at all, but feel an urging, an inner pull, a sense … Continue reading

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The Power of Play

If it feels like you have less leisure time and fewer unstructured “play” hours in your life, you’re not alone. Consider these statistics:  The average married couple works 26 percent longer each year than similar working couples did thirty years … Continue reading

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Embracing Creativity: Stress-Buster Extraordinaire

Jessica is a high school English teacher.  Her job entails stressful interactions with administration and students in addition to the pressures of lesson planning and grading. On days off, she prioritizes creative pursuits.  She makes collages out of artifacts from … Continue reading

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Art Therapy

During the past five years, I’ve lived the transformative power of today’s reading from Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way Every Day – A Year of Creative Living: “People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy.  The more difficult truth … Continue reading

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Six Days of Love and Curiosity

As promised, below you will find the posts from the brief and tumultuous six-day lifespan of my beloved sister blog site, Love and Curiosity – Gems for the Journey.  Many thanks to the loyal fans who followed my musings there.  While Gemmy has … Continue reading

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Wherever You Go, There You Are

Those who’ve been following this book from the beginning will notice that initially I published frequently – often more than once a week.  But over time, my entries became more sporadic, concluding with me not publishing at all for over … Continue reading

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