8 Ways to Write Away Your Worries
You are worried about a litany of things, and it feels like these worries are pelting you in the head...
Learn How to Access the Power of Liminal Dreaming
There’s a swirling, kaleidoscopic, free-associative experience on the edge of your mind. You’ll find it in the space right between...
8 Creative Activities to Discover Your Values
Your values are the foundation of everything you do—and are. As author Jennifer Leigh Selig, PhD, said, “values are the...
5-Minute Activities to Help You Feel Calmer and More Fulfilled
Sometimes, in order to feel calmer and more fulfilled, we need to make significant, sweeping changes. We need to change...
4 Strategies for Staying Creative Amid Burnout and a Bunch of Distractions
Here’s a frustrating fact about creativity: It’s often the first thing to evaporate when we’re tired, stressed out, and overwhelmed....
12 Tips for a Happier Home, Adapted from Nursery School
One of my resolutions is to Treat myself like a toddler. I’ve found that much of the advice aimed at...
Art Therapy: 7 Ways to Draw Your Stress Out
As an art therapist for over four decades, I’ve been able to give my clients simple yet enjoyable tools for...
How to Get Started Doing That Thing You Really Don’t Want to Do (But Have to!)
You need to fill out paperwork. You need to clean out the garage. You need to pay the bills. You...
How Writers Write About Heartbreaking Things and Care for Themselves in the Process
For more than 20 years, Mary Cregan wanted to write her recently published memoir The Scar: A Personal History of...
The Different Things You’re Doing That Steal Time—And How to Stop
Many of us lament that we don’t have time for the things we’d like to do—catch a movie on a...
Wearing the Inside Out: Meaningful (Dis)connections
When used for purposes of knowledge acquisition, information sharing, and community involvement, no one would debate the idea that social...
A Room of One’s Own: Why We Need Space and Quiet
Virginia Woolf believed that if a woman was to write fiction that she must have money and a room of...
