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[If you enjoy journaling or want to know more about journaling, please see my latest book The Great Book of Journaling. It’s available for pre-order now!] Lucia Capacchione has been championing “the power of our other hand”—that is, our nondominant hand—for a long...

Come join my Artists with Appetites group that starts Monday, April 4, 2022. To learn more, please visit here. A very different kind of weight loss group Appetite is a great thing. If you’re a composer, better to hunger to create your symphony than not care about it....

Keeping a journal is simplicity itself. It’s just you with your thoughts. In her chapter of “journaling simplicity” in The Great Book of Journaling, Kathleen Adams describes three short, simple journaling techniques that you might find useful. See if they work for...

[Over the next few weeks, we’ll look at best journaling practices for artists. To learn much more, please take a peek at The Great Book of Journaling.] A lot of people like to journal. They keep journals for all sorts of reasons—as a special private time, as a way to...

[To learn more about the ideas in this post, please take a look at Redesign Your Mind, available now.] Imagine that you are doing a beautiful job of maintaining your mental health and your emotional wellbeing and up comes a trip to the dentist, a visit from your...

To learn more about starting and maintaining a solid daily creativity practice, please take a look at The Power of Daily Practice. ** 1. A daily practice may sound like too much regimentation. In fact, it is the path to freedom. “Freedom is not given to us by anyone;...

Please enjoy these 10 quotations on mystery. And please take a look at my latest book, Redesign Your Mind, available now. 1. "The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery." -- Francis Bacon 2. "Each work originates as does the cosmos--through catastrophes...

The current illegitimate mental disorder paradigm, where labels are brazenly called diagnoses and life problems are tackled with chemicals, is a perfect handmaiden to male privilege and yet another manipulation in the age-old effort to gaslight women. It is ever so...

[Come enjoy my latest book Redesign Your Mind. It will serve you beautifully!] Beauty is such a tricky word . Here are 10 prompts that will encourage you to think deeply about beauty. 1. “We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.”—Kahlil Gibran...

Please enjoy my latest book, Redesign Your Mind. It's available here! Here are 10 nature prompts for artists that will get your juices flowing. 1. "I have gone into roses and have over a thousand planted.  There is nothing like making pictures with real things."—Mary...