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Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could just open your medicine cabinet and find a quick fix for Fear, Low Self-Esteem, Rejection, Time Wasting, and Writer’s Block? Keep in mind that I am not a doctor, but I am a writing muse, which grants me an automatic “license” to share what has worked for me: Fear Like writing good stories, courage is an ability that all writers must develop. It takes courage to study the world and write what you see and hear. It takes courage to follow y

Have you noticed all the headlines about mental health these days? Prince Harry opens up about his 20-year mental struggle. Mental health issues on the rise even as Pandemic eases its grip. Alleged cop killer suffered mental illness after losing job, mother says. The most common postpartum mental health issues and how to spot them. I grew up during a time when the words breakdown and depression were shamefully taboo and anyone who showed signs of mental illness were to be s

I used to think that writers existed on burnt coffee, stale chips, and moldy candy bars. The long-suffering writer routine wasn’t my cup of tea, but I liked the visual. During my first years living in Boston, I rarely ate at home. Instead, I frequented seafood restaurants for lobster rolls, broiled scallops, and baked stuffed shrimp with melted butter. I dined on escargot and coq au vin at DuBarry’s, prime rib at Durgin-Park, and lived for The European Restaurant’s veal parm

In my “Loving Pink” heart spa, we learn to raise our vibration of Love by detoxing from fear.   We do this through a little exercise I call “heartwriting."  Writing Exercise #1 Pick up your pen and paper and for the next 5 minutes, write a list of everything you are afraid of. This could be fear of failure, fear of success, fear of being attacked, fear of animals, fear of loving, fear of losing someone you love…anything you can think of.  Think of this exercise as if you wer