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Photo by Sixteen Miles Out on Unsplash Let me establish from the get-go that I love love candles. They create a relaxing ambience in any room and there’s nothing so romantic as a dinner with tall, flickering tapers, even if the meal is a boring plate of baked beans. I’ve read that famous Victorian authors like Jane Austen and Charles Dickens wrote by candlelight, as did Mark Twain and other writers who grew up without the luxury of electricity. Surprisingly, even 20th centur

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

If you’ve read my book, Write Awake: A Conscious Path to Creativity and Change , you know that I did not follow the "traditional" path to becoming a writer. I was a professional singer until I was about 23 years old and I always thought singing would be my career for the rest of my life. When I think about it, I doubt I’ve ever done anything traditionally. For example: I didn’t go to college immediately after high school. I didn’t marry until I was nearly forty and I didn't w

My husband knows better than to ask me how I slept the night before. Inevitably, I tell him about yet another crazy dream I’ve had. Inevitably, he wears that same forced smile as I recount my adventures in a few long breaths. Once I dreamt about lions in hotels. That’s totally normal, right? I was hosting a writers conference (location unknown) and I was staying in the same hotel as the attendees. In this hotel, there were live lions in the closets—one per guest room. Anyway,

I don't want to write today. I really don't. I want to make jewelry. I want to read a book. I want to contemplate my navel. I want to rewatch a hilarious YouTube video I found with Craig Ferguson and Robin Williams engaged in a lightning round of irreverent banter. I want to laugh. Instead, I call my mother and we chat about our health and the high cost of prescription drugs. After I hang up, I want to become an activist. I want to start a petition, sign a petition, and prote

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