Tag Archive: creativity

A Creative Activity For Families Grieving Over The Holidays

Below is a creative activity that grieving families can do over the holidays to help them through grief and to have a creative way to share favorite memories and bless the coming new year with their truest values and intentions. Click here to download a full-size PDF with the instructions for the creative activity.  …

A Creative Practice For Living Wholeheartedly After Loss

Most people who are struggling with grief don’t come to me saying, “I want to learn to live wholeheartedly after loss.” Usually, they say something like, “I want to stop feeling so depressed/ anxious/ tired/ angry. I want to stop crying all the time/ feeling demotivated and direction-less/ avoiding intimacy because I’m afraid of loving…

A Warm Cup Of Sani-tea

I created this collage and wrote the notes for it on 17 January 2011. Here’s what I wrote in my journal about the collage: I know deep down that now is a time of waiting. I can squirm and shout and try to force things, but nothing is happening in a hurry. I have to…

“Security Comes From Knowing That, Whatever Happens, You Can Handle It…” (And Other Wisdom I’m Remembering)

Sometimes I read stuff I wrote way back when, and I think, “I wrote that… I didn’t even know that I knew that?” ‘Cos I forget, you know. I wrote this post in Sept 2009. Today I’m remembering it and wanted to share this adapted version with you. I found this video of a sand…

Wandering Your Way To Wellness

I’m really pleased to have been a part of a wonderful e-course that one of my Team Juggernaut members, Heather Plett, has put together. Heather and I share a lot of common experiences and perspectives – we’re both deeply curious explorers who love to turn over any metaphorical stone we find, just because we’re fascinated…

Putting Together The Pieces

I created this collage and wrote the notes for it on 17 January 2011. At the time I was still struggling with fatigue, which we later discovered was caused by the medication I was on. I was probably also just physically and emotionally exhausted after all I’d been through over the past 8 months. Having…