Ep.05: Boundaries as Self-Care for Creatives Writers (and other creatives) often think of boundaries as negative things — restrictions that hold us back from actualizing our creative visions! But that is not always true, and in fact is often the opposite of true. In...
Ep. 04 – Seasons of Writing: Spring! This episode starts our new series, Seasons of Writing! We will be exploring the writing process through the lens of the Five Seasons matrix as taught by Melody, A Scout in her book, Soul of the Seasons. Our first stop is...
An Interview with Melody, a Scout! (ep.03) Welcome to the third episode of Around the Writer’s Table: Conversations on Craft, Creativity, and Conscious Living! This episode is the final entry in our “meet your hosts!” triptych, featuring an...
Ep. 02 – An interview with KimBoo York! Welcome to the SECOND(!!!) episode of Around the Writer’s Table: Conversations on Craft, Creativity, and Conscious Living! Next up in our journey of interviews with the hosts of the podcast, Gina and Melody put the...
Inaugural Episode! An Interview with Gina Hogan Edwards Welcome to the first episode of Around the Writer’s Table: Conversations on Craft, Creativity, and Conscious Living! We’re really excited to kick this off. We’re starting with an interview with...
Our last post introduced a model (created by master life coach Brooke Castillo) that focuses on Circumstances, Thoughts, Feelings, Actions, and Results (CTFAR model) to help us minimize judgmental, negative, stifling thoughts and emotions that may hold us back from...
I don’t buy into the mythology of writer’s block. “You’re crazy, Gina!” I hear many of you saying. “I’ve felt it, been there. My ideas stink. I don’t know what I’m doing. I KNOW I’m blocked.” I hear you. And I. Have. Felt. Your. Pain. I know what it feels like...
Our fears are proficient at keeping us from writing and they are confounding masters of disguise. We often don’t recognize them for what they are. They hide behind to-do lists. They cloak themselves in victimhood and responsibility to others over self. They mask...
by Chanta Combs As winter wanes and spring blossoms with new growth and new promises, we hope you are finding time for your writing life. Have you envisioned what success will look like for you? Or, perhaps, you’ve spent some time in recent weeks writing an Author...
Last month, we introduced you to the concept of an Author Mission Statement and explained how it can create authenticity and clarity in your journey as an author. We’re hopeful that you could create some silence in your life to reflect on the questions posed in that...
