I thought I was helping a friend over the phone when he interrupted me abruptly. I didn’t mind the interruption. I didn’t mind the abruptness. But the tone of voice was harsh, almost angry, and definitely impatient – and I felt hurt. My solar plexus hurt. I did the...
This past holiday season, I walked into a store and listening to their holiday jazzy songs piped over their sound system, I waited for the clerk to help me. Waiting half-an-hour, the energy drained from my body. I craved to do nothing for a long time. Nothing. It...
Your voice has the power to heal. Your voice has the power to invite energy and create. Your voice has the power to bring you into a deeper silence. Your voice has the power to connect you to your miraculous Self. Earlier this year, I met a man in a hot tub—where many...
When I was a young girl I started to purchase and blend my own oils because I wanted a natural and healthy perfume alternative that didn’t involve toxic substances that made me sneeze, close my throat, cough or get sick. I know now that I was probably always...
This article was originally posted on www.createwritenow.com Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o’er fraught heart and bids it break. ~William Shakespeare~ Grief is grief and loss is loss....
By Shelley Handley, April 2013 Graphics Editor Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Welles Elizabeth Welles, professional writer and speaker, performance artist and poet and authority on journaling, spoke to group of students in the PVCC Bruxton Library. Elizabeth Welles has...