Buying a gift for someone is hard, but buying a gift for the writers and readers in your life doesn't have to be. Those of us who love reading (and writing) would rather be discussing ideas or jotting down poems crave gifts that speak to our souls. Call us bibliophiles, nerdy, wordy, or bookish, ...
3 Free or Cheap Google Tools to Grow Your Creative Business
When you're first launching a new creative business, most people don't have lots of funds to put towards marketing. Over the years, I've learned some tips and tricks I like to share with other creative entrepreneurs to fuel their businesses on a shoestring budget. When I say "Google", most think ...
5 Creative Breakthroughs for Sensitive Writers Using The Artist’s Way
I have experienced the feeling of the creative well drying up. It's frightening, to say the least. As a highly sensitive writer, musician, coach, and celebrant, I find that the stress of day-to-day parenting, household management, and work projects can dampen or even snuff out my creative ...
New Book, The Wild Sensitive, Helps Sensitive Adventure Seekers Discover Themselves
When I first heard about the book, The Wild Sensitive, I thought, could this be a dichotomy or a misnomer? After all, most of the sensitive people I know, including myself, aim to avoid overstimulation and fear at all costs. The word "wild" connotates extreme adventure, taking risks, and putting ...
An Open Letter to Myself
Dear Self, I’m writing the open letter to myself because I really couldn’t sit by passively any longer. I’m very disappointed in you. I’m sad that you don’t treat yourself with more care, that you don’t buy yourself the best and do the very best for YOU. You don’t take time to think through ...
12 Bible Verses for Cancer Patients (Plus a Prayer)
No one expects to be diagnosed with cancer. As the medical tests roll in, so does the fear and anguish over what was, what's to come, and what will be. Over the last year as I prayed for direction, I experienced waves of fear, grief, and disbelief when I was unexpectedly diagnosed with breast ...
Book Coaching Packages for Sensitive Nonfiction Writers
Often in our formative years, we discover our love of reading, ideas, and creative expression through the written word. As we seek education to pursue careers and make our way in the world, often the formative love of writing and creativity get sidelined until life experience collides with internal ...
What is a Funeral Celebrant and Why Do I Need One?
When my grandmother began to decline in her 90s, I knew that I wanted to honor her with a beautiful and unique memorial service. Having served at churches on the worship team and throughout the Sacramento area as a guest, or fill-in, worship leader, it felt natural to select meaningful songs and ...
Losing Your Writing Voice and Finding it Again
In just one moment, things can change so quickly. It sounds trite, perhaps, or maybe even like a Hallmark movie, "appreciate what you have because at any moment, it could vanish." We take so many things for granted on a daily basis including our health, our family, our friends, and even our ability ...
10 Great Blessings from the Bible
"God bless them," "Bless your heart," "count your blessings," and "#blessings" abound as social platitudes, but what does it really mean to be blessed or to bless someone else? We all want material blessings, but perhaps spiritual blessings that only come from God are the most vital and important to ...
Contentment at Christmas
As the Christmas shopping season creeps closer to Halloween with each passing year, I'm reminded how advertisements, media, and companies prey on our inability to be content. For a nation overly concerned with happiness, it seems that we exist in a vicious cycle perpetuated by capitalism, which is ...
Top 15 Thanksgiving Bible Verses
As is customary on Thanksgiving Day, giving thanks for everything we have can be easy or hard depending on what's going on in our lives. If things are tough, it's often hard to give God our thanks; when things are going well, sometimes we forget to thank God, too. We praise God first because he ...