3 Simple Rituals to Boost Meaning This December Rituals help us connect and make meaning or deepen meaning in our lives. We can have rituals around the holidays or the end of the year or in our daily life. Here are a few you might consider in this season. Share...
How Do You Want to Celebrate? I’m celebrating a birthday this month, it’s not one of those “big” ones, but I still love to celebrate. My kids tease me that I call July “My Birthday Month.” They’re not wrong. I have multiple rituals around the month of my birth. Most...
Why Reflection Helps You Love Your Day Next week is my birthday. My family jokes that July is my Birthday Month, they’re not wrong. What does that mean? In addition to planning my actual day, I repeat various meaningful experiences, like walking to a beautiful sand...
Holidays can be both wonderful and complicated. In our family, we blend two religions and two sets of traditions. But we’ve found that doing all of each of our traditions or following exactly how a tradition was practiced in our families of origin was overwhelming and...
Recently I taught a workshop to a group of writers. Some of the participants were just starting to write, while others have been writing for a long time. The question came up (it does in every class and workshop I teach), “How do you create and keep a writing habit?”...