What do you need right now?

What do you need right now?

This powerful question was asked during my morning meditation a few days ago. (Spoiler alert: it’s also the last question in Volume 1 of The Sunday Night Journal.) It’s a difficult question to answer. It’s easier to know what everyone else needs from you. But ask it over and over again anyway. The answer might […]

When you just want to run away…

When you just want to run away…

Are you feeling stressed or overwhelmed by too much busy, too much change, too much demands on you, that you just want to run away? Stop. Identify and acknowledge what you’re feeling. And consider: What is this moment trying to teach me? Ask: What is my life expanding to accommodate? Wonder: What do I want […]

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 […]