Finding Your Voice: The 2017 Haven Winter Blog Series
Now booking 2017 Haven Writing Retreats! Every year at this time, I give my Haven Blog over to the alums of my Haven Writing Retreats to show the support that writers need to have for one another,...
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The reasons why we might feel voiceless are endless. What I hear over and over again is this: “Even if I did have a voice, someone else already said what I have to say, or said it better. Who am …...
View ArticleHaven Winter 2017 Series Blog Series #3: Finding your Voice
I use the phrase Find Your Voice often, and people often say to me that they have finally found their Voice (I especially love when that happens at Haven Writing Retreats!)…but what does it really...
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As a special Valentine’s Day gift to yourself, listen to the New York Times and WBUR Modern Love Podcast series! It is full of stories of love, its messiness and sometimes resolve, its bravery and...
View ArticleHaven Winter 2017 Blog Series #5: Finding your Voice
Every year at this time, I give my Haven Blog over to the alums of my Haven Writing Retreats both to show the support that writers need to have for one another, to give myself the sacred dormancy of...
View ArticleHaven Winter 2017 Blog Series #6: Finding your Voice
The truth is that it’s actually not possible for anyone to have your voice, even if they try. At Haven Writing Retreats, we work off of the same prompts in our morning classes, and we all get to see...
View ArticleHaven Winter 2017 Blog Series #7: Finding your Voice
Writing holds me together and always has. I have said many times, “Don’t wait for the rug to get ripped out from underneath you to find your passions. When I went through re-invention 101, I’m...
View ArticleHaven Winter 2017 Blog Series #8: Finding your Voice
Please consider opening to the fact that YOU DO have a voice, and it is your own. Whether in your writing, speaking, thinking, feeling. And it is quite possibly simply waiting for you to give...
View ArticleHaven Winter 2017 Blog Series #9: Finding your Voice
Being passionate for our safety first is our bottom line non-negotiable. Maybe then, pain wouldn’t have to be gain. And walls would become doors, and pain would become passion and possibility. And...
View ArticleRoll Call– What’s in a Name
I lost light watching the last of the bug hatches, and the fish rising and the clouds going crimson, breathing shallow little strikes at feeling okay about the last of my motherhood. No more would my...
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