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The Magical Dialogue Tool
Join me next Thursday on April 20th from 12:00 to 1:00 for a journaling workshop on Zoom. We will learn the very magical dialogue tool. After I reflected on the dialogue I had with my heart, I realized a few things: my heart seems to fiercely defend my true self. I love her for this! […]
Blog Entry Wins Third Place
I’m celebrating a third place contest win for the personal blog, “Confess Already: The Power of Disclosure in Writing”! The win was judged by the 2023 New Mexico Press Women (NMPW) Communications Contest, the largest inclusive media organization in New Mexico. I submitted this blog because I got to practice some of my favorite things, including […]
First Place Contest Winner!
Celebrating a small win today. This personal web site (home of The Writing Shed) won first prize in the New Mexico Press Women Communications Contest 2022!I celebrated with a mango yuzu chantilly cream cupcake. 🎉The New Mexico Press Women (NMPW) was “organized in 1950, as an affiliate of the National Federation of Press Women. It is […]
What Are Your Birthmarks?
Women! What are your birthmarks? What are you trying to hide from the world that God made perfect and beautiful? Where do all of these emotions go when you don’t have the language to talk to your birthmarks? Emotions like confusion or sadness or anger or hate?They get buried in our bodies and they harm […]
Resiliency and Journal Writing
We are a resilient people! But if you “read the popular press–or even psychology journals–you might conclude that PTSD and other mental . . . problems are the standard responses to all large traumas Surprisingly, the opposite is true” (Pennebaker and Smyth, Opening Up by Writing it Down).In Silver and Wortman’s research, they show that […]