Let's start by acknowledging that we each have an internal critic. You know who I mean. The authority in your head that directs what you believe about yourself. For some people, the critic is but an irritation without the power to stop them from moving forward. For others, this judge, censor, criticizer, and denigrator has taken over the entire front row in your life. You listen to what it slings at you. What’s more, you believe everything it says. Introduce Yourself Motion for the uninvited …
Telling Your Fearless Truth
On Saturday, September 12 at 10:15am Pacific, OG Rev and I discuss “Telling Your Fearless Truth” to kickoff the Craft Conference of Writing For Change: Worldwide 2020 (for a free pass, see below). A few weeks ago, we wrote the following description for our session together: In these turbulent times, the call to speak one's fearless truth summons us with the force of a trumpet blast. As the multitudes swarm cities all over the world with upraised fists crying "Black Lives Matter" and as the …
Suggestions Needed for Boundless Creativity Workbook Donation
I have terrific news! A benefactor has stepped forward with the most generous offer to donate a large number of Boundless Creativity: A Spiritual Workbook to Overcoming Self-Doubt, Emotional Traps, and Other Creative Blocks to groups, clubs, associations, and organizations willing to distribute the workbooks to writers, artists, innovators, entrepreneurs held back by insecurity, fear, or a sense of unworthiness. This anonymous donor believes in the power of the workbook. Her gift is her way of …
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Turning Dreams into Reality Begins with a Goal
For lots of us, the pandemic and the reasons for the current civil unrest have sent us into a tailspin of denial, anger, bargaining, and / or depression. Sound familiar? Those emotions are four of the traditional five stages of grief. We’re mourning all that we've lost and are fearful of what’s coming next -- the unknown future. For many, our time is filled scrambling to provide for family, put food on the table, keep a roof over your head, and / or demonstrating for change. However, for those …
Face Your Self-Doubts with Confidence
I'm working with a writer now who has fallen into a pit of despair. She's lost her way with her story. She's convinced she'll never get down on paper what’s in her imagination. She believes this isn't the right time for her to undertake the challenge of going to distance. She wants to give up. I wish I could tell her it's going to get easier, but ... based on her feelings and the self-doubts she's wrapped in, I'd say she's deep into the Universal Story. And, the reality is that things are going …
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