Yesterday I wrote a very short story about a girl who was wide-awake. Today I fell into a deep sleep again. And now, with these words, the light turns on. I am flowing. Sometimes I can’t believe how much this body experiences. Stress, the way it hovers in the chest, a heart-burning for some relief…
Category Archives: journal writing
we need each other to flourish
We live in a world that is as complex as it is dynamic. Our interdependence with others and the world beyond ourselves is a fact, not an option. We are surrounded by other people and countless nonhuman species, by made and natural objects of the most extraordinary variety, by every imaginable kind of sensual and…
what friends and family are for
FInally home after almost three weeks away on a gorgeous holiday with family and friends. How grateful I feel to be able to travel to see those I love and to spend time with them, making new memories and seeing the world through their eyes. One of the most vital aspects of traveling for me…
how to be a happy heartrepreneur
I’m sitting here in my studio, sun streaming down on me through the window. Birds chittering in the surrounding trees. This is my oasis. I leave and I return, leave and return. I got home yesterday after two days away. On Tuesday I was in Victoria where I graduated my first class of students at…
the journey to freedom begins with this delirious (re)lease of words
I give births. I enjoy giving births. Helene Cixous Everything is alive now. Spring brings permission to begin, again. A fresh perspective, as if we could be virgin, (re)newed. This past weekend saw me fulfill a dream, long ago hatched. A dream begun inwhen I first set foot on the hallowed Pacific Coastal ground…
change is in the air. fortunately so is Love.
We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors… Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant?… Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves. Diane Ackerman I look in the mirror and see dots, lines and marks on my neck, breasts and face that…
10 things I have learned about intimacy
1. Intimacy begins with yourself and the way you see and feel the world. You can be intimate with our own fear, or grief, with a friend during a conversation, or in contemplation with nature. 2. Intimacy isn’t only available within a long-term committed relationship. Intimacy is present everywhere we turn. You only need to…
why i write about love
Whichever way we look into the nature of inquiry, we find that it has to be open. When you inquire into something, you are opening it up, you are revealing it. So the very nature of inquiry is a process of opening up; and what you open up are boundaries, limits, positions, beliefs—any stand you…
illuminating the journal
I have been journaling for 24 years. I’ve written in every kind of journal: spiral bound, hand-sewn, hard and soft-covered, lined and unlined. I have bought journals in bookstores in Canada, the States and Europe. I have written in several different colours of ink, and fountain pen. In my journals I have written poems, short…
its my turn
Last week I received this exquisite handmade journal in the mail. I was on my way into the garden to do some weeding when my farm-mate brought it over to my studio. I had to take off my purple gloves to undo the white paper packaging it had been mailed in. The journal is a…
Sign up here and receive your
Free Gate of Play,
an introduction to Loving Inquiry!
-
I am a writer, speaker, author, teacher and founder of the Centre for Loving Inquiry, where I teach artists and healers how to live with more joy, confidence, creativity and compassion for themselves and others.
I believe that life is a journey full of possibility, uncertainty and challenge. To live with joy and wonder, requires that we learn to cultivate kindness and compassion, to be gentle with ourselves and others, and to see life as a constantly evolving creative process. As we open to this new perspective, we learn to move beyond our perceived limitations and let ourselves take risks, make mistakes and try new things.
I look forward to helping you start your journey of Loving Inquiry...
-
