Feel the fear and do it anyway

Feel the fear and do it anyway

Last week, I sent out a query letter to literary agents based in New York to find a publisher for The Sunday Night Journal. (I know it’s already published but I want it to reach new markets—United States! United Kingdom! Australia! Brazil! Germany! Spain!) Every time I write these letters, there’s a swirling ball in […]

So what’s Write Away all about anyway?

So what’s Write Away all about anyway?

A month ago, we concluded our second Write Away retreat. It was another incredible four days. I envisioned Write Away to be the writing retreat of my dreams—to have a place where you can finally say yes to the writing muse that has been begging for your attention for so long, undisturbed writing time and […]

What would last year’s self thank you for today?

What would last year’s self thank you for today?

This is my favorite journaling question. It makes its appearance in every volume of The Sunday Night Journal and it was a prompt in a Soul Writing workshop I recently conducted. It was a question that made the workshop attendees pause and look at who they were a year ago and acknowledge how far they’ve come […]

How dating yourself can change your life

How dating yourself can change your life

I’m writing this post from Write Away, our retreat where women can write, read, escape, get mentoring and coaching sessions and honor their creativity. As I talk to women during this retreat, they tell me that they’re so glad they have given these four days to themselves. Some of them are working on books and […]

Ready, set, go(al)!

Ready, set, go(al)!

A few weeks back, I found my filled-up copy of the Best Year Ever workbook, a collaboration I did last year with Micah Sulit of Eden Street. Inside I found the goals I wanted to accomplish for my business: how much I wanted to earn, the workshops and retreats I wanted to do and the […]