A few minutes can nourish your creativity and feelings of renewal For the last year, I’ve had the pleasure of sharing Feed Your Spirit writing workshops, a process that engages creative writing exercises to cultivate joy and gratitude, make space to release grief and inspire your spiritual life. In my last session, Spring Cleaning For Your Soul, we investigated spring as…

Resources For Your In-Person Seder It’s hard not to measure preparation and plans for this year’s Passover against our memories of where we were in–physically and emotionally–two years ago, when the world went into lockdown and our Passover celebrations needed to transform quickly in order to keep everyone safe from the rapid spread of Covid-19. …

A Mindful approach to enter the season A week ago when I was walking my Saluki Odin, four squirrels chased each other across the sidewalk right in front of us, caught sight of Odin and tore across the street to escape up some trees. It was a sunny, sixty degree day that felt like spring though it…

In honor of International Women’s Day, I’m celebrating ten of my favorite women writers Happy International Women’s Day! I know that days set apart like this one can feel contrived, but with so much work to be done in our world to break down gender bias and create an equitable world for women, I’m behind this effort if it means shining a light on…

Family History and Current Aggression Evokes Gratitude and Fear Through Feed Your Spirit Writing, I teach online writing workshops focusing on spiritual growth. I am excited to share this powerful and timely work by one of my participants Julie A. Stone. Julie reached out to me after I shared Writing a Prayer For Peace. It was 118 years and…

Resources to send love, hope + practical help If you feel helpless watching the chaos and cruelty unfold as Russia attacks the people of Ukraine, you are not alone. It can feel like there is no way to help, no way to contribute to the resistance to a brutal dictator. …

Celebrating my son’s birth with a call for advocacy Today is my son George Chaim’s nineteenth birthday. I have written about his life before, about the beautiful soul that he is. …

Rest. Rejuvenate. Inspire Creativity — It’s been seven months since I began a new spiritual practice: making note of all of the different kinds of art, nature, and community that inspire me through each month. It’s a simple practice. I keep an ongoing list in my journal, then take time to reflect on my favorite…

Find sanctuary. Rest. Rejuvenate your creativity in the new year Standing on the El platform in Chicago in January when it was barely daylight to get to my temp job answering phones for one of the city’s largest advertising firms, I remember the wind ripping through the ankle-length fake fur coat that my Mom had given me from her closet…