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May the Green be With You

About a year after my husband died, I noticed that the emerald from my ring was missing. I searched the house many times, turned up rugs, even dug through the vacuum cleaner dirt. I feared it had gone down the kitchen sink drain or down the toilet. I gave up my search and let it [ READ MORE ]

Splash of Sass

It’s not that I wasn’t warned. The friend who introduced me to artist/teacher Sarah Yeoman told me I’d need large sheets of high-quality watercolor paper, a palette with deep wells and a willingness to fill those wells with globs of fresh, juicy paint. I registered for my first six-week session, ordered supplies from the list [ READ MORE ]

Shelley Thorstensen, printmaker

As printmaker Shelley Thorstensen walks into her Oxford, PA studio she passes a stone with a message from her muse:  TRUST. “I have to look at and read it because with printmaking there are so many directions I could go. There’s nothing complacent about making art. I have to trust that I’m going in the [ READ MORE ]

IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT (AND THERE’S SOMETHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT)

JUST A REMINDER:  Rick Wilkes on Childhood Trauma Relief starts tonight at 8pm EST and is available free for 24 hours. thrivingnow.com/worldsummit GOOD NEWS FROM thrivingnow.com All the time you’ve been blaming yourself and shaming yourself about not getting more done, about being too sensitive, tired, or overwhelmed… there has been a hidden cause lurking [ READ MORE ]

Back Talk

BACK TALK Do you ever have a critic sitting on your shoulder, telling you what not to do, what not to paint? what not to write? what not to express to the world? My inner critic often sounds like my mother, who has been dead for 18 years. She was the mistress of the one-line [ READ MORE ]

TAPPING INTO ABUNDANCE

*** Tapping World Summit Starts Tomorrow *** There is still time to register for this FREE, online EFT and Meridian tapping event.  Remember, you can tune in live or listen to any of the recordings at no cost for the first 24 hours after they are released: http://www.taptalkradio.com/worldsummit Carol Look’s call is Sunday February 21: [ READ MORE ]

FIRST SMALL STEP

Labyrinth, Servants of Mary Motherhouse, Ladysmith, WI photo by Stewart Whisenant We want to be writing our books or marketing our businesses. Alas. We’ve come to that place of hesitancy where we are nervous about taking the next step in the direction of our creative dream. In the interest of playing it safe, we stop. [ READ MORE ]

Procrastination: From To Do – to – Ta Dah

Longwood Gardens, PA Do you ever heap abuse on yourself for not tackling certain items on your To-Do List? Or for not sticking with your New Year’s Resolutions? Many creative people think procrastination is a symptom of some disease or fatal flaw. My dictionary offers these synonyms: put off, delay, postpone, dally, drag your feet, [ READ MORE ]

Tap out Perfectionism

Using EFT to ease perfectionism's power to paralyze[ READ MORE ]

Messy Art, Messy Life

A blogger at artellawordsandart.com recently wrote a post about welcoming the freedom to make messy art and to embrace all the messy feelings in her life. She decided to make a painting with colors she usually avoids and let go of any standards of how it should turn out. I love how she was allowing [ READ MORE ]

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