She wears clunky shoes with thick soles, but her socks pink with yellow flowers. She says hello to everyone she meets and always has a big smile. 

Mindmapping, or clustering, is a method that helps you to brainstorm related ideas, identify patterns, and and see how things are connected.

Dear Transformation, I would love to have you in my life. I’m always thinking about having you come over for coffee, but then I get busy or overwhelmed. A lot of times I just get tired, and I don’t feel like cleaning up so that I’m ready for company.

It feels like I’m always just missing you and yet I know you are here, all around me. In so many ways!

There are few things that inspire me more than a new notebook, a luscious pen and a bunch of new ideas. So when I discovered the website Michelle Murphy LifeOnPurpose, I was immediately intrigued.

I must figure it all out right now!

This seems to be my motto. I hate that feeling of being stuck; I need a new career, new place to live, new job and a new idea. And I need them now.

For the last few weeks, I have been starting my journaling practice each morning by answering the question “What’s going well?”

Sometimes my forward momentum grinds to a halt because I start to think my goals may be too farfetched and my expectations too great. I get distracted by comparison thinking, burnout, or doubts about what I truly have to offer or what I can do.

Journaling can be a great learning tool and fun activity for children. It can help them to express their feelings and emotions, problem solve, keep track of important events…

This year-continuing my journey. No new resolutions, just a continuation of intentions, dreams and plans. No new “I resolves.”

There is a part of me that has stopped caring so much. Or perhaps the desperation has ceased.

…I write will be delicious. There will be days when words refuse to flow.

Each morning

poems presented to me as if they

Just do it, they say. Put your head down and get to work. Make a list, action steps, cross them off the list.

I’m an acupuncturist, teacher, spoken word artist, writer, poet and musician. Not necessarily in that order. It changes from day to day, depending on my

Can time expand? Can I experience a moment so beautifully that time refuses its march?

Confinement is a choice or fate? We can choose it, imprison ourselves with uncertainty hold ourselves back with fear

A new beginning It can start at any moment Each hour transforms into a new hour

5-Minute Sprint. New beginnings. I’m always looking forward to them, using a brand-new notebook, a new pen, mind map, ideas, figuring it out.

If you don’t feel like you have time for regular journaling, 5-Minute Sprints are for you. This journaling technique is a timed writing exercise