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  • Make Space to Create - Reconnect With Yourself - The Creative Practice

    How to Make ‘Finding Your Hobby’ a Grounding Personal Project 

    July 1, 2025

    Ever feel like you sort-of lose touch with yourself when work and life get busy?  I certainly do. In fact, that feeling inspired an entire series on navigating busy seasons (while minimizing burnout). Part of the reason I wrote it was because I needed a grounding, meaningful personal project to…

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  • Reconnect With Yourself

    Happy International Women’s Day 2025! This Year, We Accelerate Action

    March 8, 2025

    This year’s theme comes with a statistic: At the current rate of progress, it will take until 2158, which is roughly five generations from now, to reach full gender parity, according to data from the World Economic Forum. Focusing on the need to Accelerate Action emphasizes the importance of taking…

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  • Make Space to Create - Reconnect With Yourself

    The Intention Word: An Impactful New Year’s Tradition (and My Pick for 2025)

    December 30, 2024

    Another brand new year is upon us! I love picking an intention word as part of my my tradition of reflection and direction while looking toward the year ahead. In this post I’ll share: What is an Intention Word? I’m pretty sure I picked up this idea from a Mel…

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  • Reconnect With Yourself - The Creative Practice

    Listen To Your Authentic Voice: Four Questions For Creative Clarity

    December 1, 2024

    This is a blog about creativity, so of course we love talking about fear! Creative expression is an honest reflection of yourself out into the world, and this is not an easy thing to do. Naturally, a lot of fear comes with the territory – fear of judgement, fear of…

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    Reconnect With Yourself - The Creative Practice

    Time to Start A New Venture? Don’t Let Fear Get The Majority Vote On Your Creative Journey

    November 24, 2024

    There are three major voices that weigh in on our creative journeys: Fear, Logic, and the Inner Creative. We get stuck when Fear gets the majority vote. In this post we explore how these voices work together (and how to get them to cooperate!)

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    Make Space to Create - Reconnect With Yourself

    Are You Lost? (Offering You Some Heartfelt Encouragement)

    November 17, 2024

    Hi. Are you lost? Are you feeling trapped in an endless cycle? Do you feel as though your daily life revolves around your work? And when you come home from work, you have just enough energy to fulfill the rest of your non-work responsibilities? On the days that you don’t…

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  • How To Embrace the Multi-Passionate Chaos
    Reconnect With Yourself - The Creative Practice

    Confessions of a Serial Hobbyist: How To Embrace the Multi-Passionate Chaos

    November 10, 2024

    You have a bunch of different projects on the go. They’re all pulling for your attention at the same time, and you can’t seem to finish any of them. When you do get a little free time to work on something, you can’t decide where to focus… And you make…

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    What Are We Searching For? 

    September 2, 2024

    If we never give ourselves the opportunity to cultivate self-awareness, we can easily find ourselves walking through life unaware of where our authentic wants and needs are misaligned, and so we start to feel conflicted, lost, and yes - generally inauthentic. So we begin searching - but what exactly is it…

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    Cultivating Authenticity With a Creative Practice

    August 19, 2024

    We all want to lead authentic lives, but often we don't know where to start. Let's explore how engaging in a creative practice can help cultivate authenticity.

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    The Key to Cultivating Authenticity (and a Significant Omission from the Three Pillars Approach!)

    July 30, 2024

    We’re a little over half-way through the year, and as I've been working with the intention word "authenticity", I’ve realized I missed a key component to cultivating it!

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