Share I consider myself a writer. Because writing brings something particular out of me, something deep and vulnerable. But … writing is *hard* for me. If I feel blocked, if I want to create tons of content really fast, if I’m teaching something complicated – it’s easiest, a natural expression, fastest for me to speak. [...]
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Resisting Resistance
Share I am just not feeling it today. The blog post, the errands, the podcast, the emails, the dishes – everything on the to do list just looming over me. Today, I am plagued by resistance. None of the my usual strategies worked – couldn’t get myself to Panera Bread to write, cleaning out my [...]
What is the most true thing I could write today?
Share I have text file called “blog post ideas” sitting in my dropbox, full of partial outlines and bullet points and paragraphs of stories about my current revelations, about dedicating my life to the impossible, about why I didn’t trademark Live your Truth, about the deserving of weekend things, etc. And I’ll probably write those [...]
The Undecideds
Share Laying in my sheets this morning, instead of surfing twitter and blogs and facebook and instagram for 45 minutes … I just rested, closing my eyes, considering the source of my current frustrations. Yes, as I wrote in my last blog post, I have many unfinshededs that need to be closed before I have [...]
The Book, the Unfinishededs, and the King Size Crunch Bar Cluttering My Head.
Share Standing in the airport terminal store, with my customary bag of Combos cheddar cheese crackers and a King Size Crunch bar in my hand, I tilted my head and stared at the titles. Chick list and girls with magical being tattoos and diatribes of the next presidential candidates. Thinking, how lovely it would be [...]
The Other Kind of Resistance: Listening to the Quiet Message From Your Soul
Share It wasn’t happening. Every time I sat down at my desk to complete the next drawing lesson in Drawing From the Right Side of the Brain … something came up. I didn’t have the right plexiglass frame. There were emails to answer. The lighting wasn’t right. The pencil needed sharpening. The kid was too [...]
The Necessary of Getting Messy & Looking Like an Idiot.
Share Yes, I am a writer. Words are my media, my language of painting my truth. Words are how I attempt to compose a symphony of evocation and inspiration and stirring-you-up. Words are how I share myself, whether written or on video or in teaching a live class. But lately I’ve been doing some creativity [...]
Creating Space for Ecstasy via Morning & Evening Routines
Share I regularly forget to eat. Forget to sit. Forget to write. Forget to read. Forget to turn off the internet or get into bed or jump in the shower or take the vitamins in my extra-large pills-by-day organizer from Walgreens. And then it’s 11 PM or 11 AM or 5:35 in the morning and [...]
twenty-eight days: misplacing my voice and other reasons to pick up a pen
Share The temporary excuse was the failure of a single digit. The diagnosis of osteoarthritis in the middle knuckle of my right ring finger – stiff, swollen – necessitating aleve and rest and splint and ice and the sticking of my flesh with needles. I couldn’t type. Couldn’t write. Was stuck with videos and hunt [...]
How to Make Money By Getting Nothing Done
Share I’m coming up on the end of the 60 day sabbatical, my moratorium on promotion and launches and producing and completing, so I could have space for the energies of thinking and creating and writing and who knows what else needed to be allowed to happen. Here are a few things I learned. Writing [...]
I'm Elizabeth Potts Weinstein, a writer, teacher, and coach.