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 […]
…I’m still fascinated at how this simple practice is giving me the self-care I need on a Sunday night. The prompts force me to pause and examine my life from a new perspective. Sometimes, before I journal, I flip through the pages and am jolted by recurring themes (take care of your body! Consider your […]
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 […]
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 […]
I have been practicing journal therapy since I was nine years old. Even if my childhood diary mostly contained me gushing about my celebrity crushes, I remember writing about my feelings whenever I was angry or upset. One time, I cried because a kid pulled out my hair. I can still recall the moment I […]
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 […]
