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Reflect Before You Blog: What Is It I Really Want To Say?

Reflect Before You Blog: What Is It I Really Want To Say?

Sometimes we want to simply jump into our writing. But it’s important that you reflect before you blog. We get in front of the blank screen, and we want to dive into our topic with two feet. We have our tea ready, we’re at our […]

October 27, 2020
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Five Senses Image-Writing: Bees, Dragonflies, & Grasshoppers

Five Senses Image-Writing: Bees, Dragonflies, & Grasshoppers

You are walking on a summer day through a field of flowers. The sun is hot and the flowers and bees are beautiful. You are alone and happy. OR You are walking through a field of dandelions and wildflowers. It’s hot summer. Your skin is […]

October 20, 2020
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Fall Into Reading: Join Our Wholehearted Living Book Club

Fall Into Reading: Join Our Wholehearted Living Book Club

Autumn is here. The season of cozy blankets, sweaters, golden leaves, and hot chocolate! My favourite season for reading. And I’m super excited this year, as I’ve joined reading energies with Sarah Reckman from Mentally Healthy Me in hosting our new Wholehearted Living Book Club! We […]

October 13, 2020
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Writing In Community: What Does This Look Like?

Writing In Community: What Does This Look Like?

Many of us are used to writing alone. We might writing our blog posts alone at our desk at home, or we might take a walk with our nature journal and sit on a log while writing down some thoughts, or we might visit the […]

September 6, 2020
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Yoga + Writing = Yoga-Writing

Yoga + Writing = Yoga-Writing

Stretch the body, stretch the brain, stretch your words onto the page. These practices are more connected than you might have realized. Yoga opens your body, your mind, your breath. You writing voice comes out of your body, your mind, your breath. Your words come […]

August 23, 2020
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Writing From The Compost Of Our Lives

Writing From The Compost Of Our Lives

Sifting through the rich compost soil is something gardeners know well: letting it pour and slide through our fingers, feeling its warmth, its richness, its readiness to be used for planting, its smell of worthiness. Writing is a lot like this. We all have things […]

August 19, 2020
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The Magic of Creating

The Magic of Creating

A beautiful day for sitting outside with this inspirational book, Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. The sun and birds singing and breeze and fresh air offers a sense of freedom and open space that gives me a good mental space for writing. I am reading […]

May 19, 2020
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Jill Grunenwald’s Running With a Police Escort

Jill Grunenwald’s Running With a Police Escort

When I first picked up this book at Indigo Chapters, and started browsing through the pages, I found myself laughing out loud at the recognition of myself in this narrator. Written as a memoir, this never-giving-up runner finds herself always at the back of the […]

May 16, 2020
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Every Mama Needs A Clubhouse

Every Mama Needs A Clubhouse

Hey Mamas, do you remember that secret clubhouse we all adored or wanted to belong to, when we were kids? That tree fort, or garage, or abandoned shack where we sat on logs, drank Kool-Aid or a bottle of coke with a handful of licorice, […]

December 7, 2019
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