If you would protest hate, embody love.
Putting a Notion into Motion
This weekend, I had the privilege of participating in a panel discussion at the Amelia Island Book Festival.
Amelia Island Book Festival 2024
This is the 23rd season of the Amelia Island Book Festival, which celebrates the love of reading and supports literacy in Nassau County, Florida.
PROMPT: Sunrise is the Best Time
Sunrise is the best time for greeting the day
although I rarely see it—
Affirmation
For a good part of my life, I was dependent on external validation for my self worth. This put me at the mercy of others’ opinions, words, and judgments. It often left me trying to please people to gain their favor, at the expense of my own needs and desires.
Exciting News
Hello friends! While I have taken the summer off from blogging, things have been progressing nicely on my memoir project.
When I was ten years old, I came home from school to find dead kittens strewn across the lawn.
Part of my work, both personally and with clients, incorporates the use of constellations. Constellations are a somatic, or embodied, exercise that provide a systemic view of relationship dynamics. In other words, using people or objects, we create in three dimensional form a representation of a situation or circumstance in order to understand it better.
When you’re working on a memoir, you spend a lot of time thinking about how to tell your story—what to tell, how much to tell, and how to tell it truthfully.
People have been talking with me recently about the joys and challenges of parenting adult children. It requires a different approach from when they were younger. However, it’s not completely dissimilar, if our goal is to help them be confident, independent and self-sufficient.
PART TWO—Secondary Trading
In a recent writing class, our prompt was to experiment with different ways of telling a story by altering perspectives and tenses to play with distance between the writer and the reader. We were given specific voices and tenses to use. I had fun retelling this event from my childhood. Enjoy!