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Sometimes it pays to be a beginner
It’s not often that I find myself a beginner. Writing is my thing. It’s what I do best and in times of comfort, anger and happiness. It makes me feel better than anything else. And I know that my anxiety plays up the more that I haven’t sat down to lose myself in a story. But sometimes the anxiety of starting doesn’t go lost on me. I coach my clients through this and even though I have all the tools and a story arc that I have going on right now has been with me for 15 years. It’s still fresh and raw whenever I find myself starting something new.…
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The Artist’s Way – Week 8
This week was all about strength and it’s a good week, all about finding the strength even through the negative and I think it was fitting. I like to think that I have a pretty thick skin and even though it was a relatively easy week I did find a lot of resistance. The topics that were covered included: survival, the ivory power, gain disguised as loss, age and time: product and process, filling the form and this week went back to affirmations. Morning Pages: I was pretty consistent with it this time, I made sure that I did a little even if it was just before work or what…
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Crystals for Creativity and Productivity
As you know I’ve done a great post about the oils that I use to help me and because I love woo woo stuff I also have some crystals that I have on hand to help me focus and make my magic happen and while they’re not directly linked with creativity, well one is I like to have them around as a positive reminder. It also doesn’t hurt that they’re pretty to look at and sparkle when you give them the chance. Amethyst Now this baby is a gorgeous crystal cluster that makes me so giddy staring at it. She was my second crystal cluster (the first being my citrine)…
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Oils for Creativity
Pssst. I have a secret to let you guys into. I’ve been keeping a bit of a lid on this because I wasn’t sure how well it would work, but I’ve found some beautiful things to help me create effortlessly and stay on task. I’ve found some oils for creativity and the best bit? They actually work! Lots of people have made the switch to natural and chemical free products in their home, I’m slowly making my way over to do that, not because everyone else is, but because it makes me feel better, my body enjoys it and my ability to sit down and write is better because I’m…
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The Artist’s Way – Week 7
This week was all about connections and broken down into a dew core topics: Listening, perfectionism, risk and jealousy, which all made total sense and the tasks that came with this week are pretty spot on with helping. It included an archaeology lesson (a bit like taking a look at what’s happening in your life and what you’re grateful for, hello abundance here. A jealousy journal and listening to an entire music album and doing just that, listening. Morning Pages: Okay I’m going to stop trying to do them every day. I wake up and I keep going instantly to my phone and scrolling vs doing the pages. And even…
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Making Shapely Fiction by Jerome Stern
Here’s another book about writing, one that I’m required to read for my Master’s degree and while I only started it in August (as in the degree, not the book) I couldn’t pay this novel my full attention because of everything else that was going on at that moment. So, it was a goal of mine to sit down and read it cover to cover (ok, so not really but it was one of the books that I have to read for the course) and I was a bit sceptical. Also, it looked like the easier read in comparison to the other one I have to read as well. It’s…
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Believe In Yourself & Do What You Love by Kate James
I have a book problem. It’s not like I hide it but there is a problem where I tend to buy books that I think will love and most of them (at the moment anyway) are self-help book which is not a bad thing, only when you have same brainness with your bestie and she rocks up with two books that you already own. Oh, the giggles, I actually made a bit of a promise to myself this year, but knowing me I probably won’t keep it because I’m fancy like that. And I’m really just addicted to buying books, but it’s to not buy any more self-help books until…
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The Artist’s Way – Week 6
Here we are at Week 6 of The Artist’s Way and it’s been one of my favourite so far. After having read Big Magic by Liz Gilbert there was no shame in having a job that paid the bills while I created my art, which is okay, I’m 100 per cent okay with having a retail job while I study and create because it allows me to do that with a peace of mind and not have to worry. The theme for this week was recovering a sense of abunance and the topics that were covered were: the great creator, luxury, counting (an exercise) and money madness I really like not…
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10 Tips To Help Your Writing Mental Health
I’m always learning new things about myself and my writing mental health, and one of the best things I’m learning about is how to make myself feel better and work better. And because you too deserve to work at your optimum potential I’m sharing 10 of my best writing mental health tricks and because I love to break the rules you get a bonus one too (sneak peak, it’s my favourite of all of them). So, sit back and start your check list, don’t forget to leave me some love in the comments too. Learn to be gentle with yourself: Life throws you curveballs it’s not how you react to…
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The Artist’s Way – Week 5
This week with The Artist’s Way was all about recovering a sense of possibility. The topic that were covered included: limits, finding the river, the virtue trap, forbidden joys and a wish list exercise What would you do if you had an unlimited amount of money and time? What wouldn’t you do, should probably be the right answer there. It’s been a fun week and I managed to get most of the exercises done too. Which was actually really fun. Morning Pages: There’s been a lot of things that I’ve had to process and a lot of it just didn’t want to come out onto the page, I like this…
