The Shadow Artist

Everyone is an artist.  Every child is creative. They either learn to express it, or they learn to suppress it. Those of us who learned to suppress their creative impulse …

Bah humbug!

I hate it! I hate it! I hate it! Doing Morning Pages sucks. And that is exactly why I am committing to doing them for ten weeks straight. Some new …

Practicing Mindfulness

Mindfulness, as I see it, is making space for what is happening in this moment. It is allowing ourselves to become the space in which we allow this moment to …

What’s my purpose in life?

For years, I’ve asked myself the question: What’s my purpose in life? The question was so strong within me that the not-knowing led to inertia. I just didn’t have a …

Frustratingly frustrating

A month ago, I posted The Love Challenge, and challenging it has been. In retrospect, I should have named it differently… *wink* For these past weeks, I have been a holy …

Love yourself

Most of us feel not enough as we are, we feel we need to do the next thing to become better, and somehow that next thing doesn’t fill the void, …

Love is…

Love is like a great parent, (s)he will address you at your own level, speak to you in a way that you will understand. And when you fall, (s)he will …

A love revolution

Okay, I’m just gonna say it: unconditional love really is the most ridiculous term ever invented. I mean, really, as if there is something called ‘conditional love’. There isn’t, because …

The Hermien Show

If I were a sitcom, it would be hysterical! Imagine a zealous Mother Superior, a pretentious artist, a wannabe guru, a mysterious mystic, the glamorous yet capricious Miss Piggy, and …

Meet Ieniemienie

I love journaling. To me journaling is different from writing in a diary. Writing in a diary is a form of recording. Journaling is a way to plug into the …