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3 Keys to Mastering Your Craft as a Writer and a Celebrant
How can we cultivate our capacity as human beings so that we can bring more of ourselves into our work and life?
3 Steps to Get Your Writing Back on Track
Make your way through the season of life when writing seems impossible.
5 Questions for Mary Oliver
Beloved poet and natural world evangelist Mary Oliver pulls the curtain for a rare glimpse behind her writing and life. Her new book of prose, Upstream, filled with gorgeous essays…
5 Ways to Embrace Daily Writing
Writing is a vital personal expression—a way to both share who you are with the world, and to delve deeper into your own psyche.
7 Different Ways to Journal to Help You Create, Reflect, and Explore
There are many different ways we can approach journaling. Here are seven suggestions to try.
7 Stories to Tap into Your Creative Flow
Think back to how you played as a child. Remember how it felt to create your own stories and scenarios and games? In the middle of creative flow, there is a feeling of …
Book Review: The Grace in Living
The Grace in LivingRecognize It, Trust It, Abide in ItBy Kathleen Dowling SinghWisdom PublicationsKathleen Dowling Singh is a Dharma practitioner and respected author who’s written…
Composting for Your Life
It’s Spring 2012, and we just had a super full moon: The moon was closer to the earth than it’s been all year. Here in Vancouver, it’s just starting to get warm, though the cherry …
Deep Listening
Dr. Neha Sangwan and writer and coach Jackee Holder say deep listening is the path to wellness
Fictionalize Your Story
When you fictionalize your story, you can leave the technicalities at the door.
Get Unstuck
We live in stories—all of us, all of the time. This is a story about breaking through writer’s block and the start of a focused, passionate, and productive period
How to Create Your Own Personal Mythology
Every worldview, whether religious or cultural, is steeped in the structure of a story. Christians, for example, elevate the value of love through the archetype of Jesus, the ultim…
How to Support a Writing Routine When You’re Already Too Busy
When your days are filled with work, laundry, and other activities, the thought of writing something can be daunting. Author Nicole Gulotta invites us to learn how to work with our schedules to establish a regular writing routine.
Journaling to Rediscover Hidden Interests
Try this journaling exercise to rediscover something you used to be passionate about as a child.
Left and Right Handed Journaling
When I was in my early twenties I went to see a psychic. He said I was so full of creative energy that I either needed to start writing books or I was going to start having babies.…
Q&A: Lucinda Williams, Singer/Songwriter
One of America’s most respected singer/songwriters, Lucinda Williams talks about joy, crossword puzzles, and the magic of a little red wine.
Reshaping Society by Being a Celebrant and a Writer
Sponsored Content from the Celebrant Foundation & Institute
Saved By A Poem: Just Now
In the morning as the storm begins to blow awaythe clear sky appears for a moment and it seems to methat there has been something simpler than I could ever believesimpler than I co…
Sense and Sensuality
Excerpted from The Write Prescription: Telling Your Story to Move With and Beyond Illness by Judith Hannan
Shared Journaling
Instead of keeping a private journal, a shared journal can be a way to use writing to connect or deepen a relationship.
Silent Night: Journaling Under the Moon
As another year comes to a close and we look forward to new beginnings, this is the perfect time to reflect on what is working in our lives and what is not.
Surprise Yourself with a Nested Meditation
One of the more ingenious tools we’ve found for reframing a tough situation—or simply having fun with words—is a process that psychologist Kevin Anderson calls nested meditation. I…
The Commons: Crawling to Ecstasy
These physical journeys have become a spiritual quest, guiding me into old age with some semblance of equanimity and health.
The Story of You: Writing as a Tool for Self-Discovery
How do you get started on this journey of writing for self-discovery? Word by word.
The Stubborn Gladness of Elizabeth Gilbert
Before Eat, Pray, Love was a movie and a travel tour, it was a memoir by the award-winning writer Elizabeth Gilbert, whose story of losing and finding herself resonates with just a…
The Wrong I Needed to Write
In the last two issues of S&H, I’ve written two articles. This is the one that was trying to get out…
Toolbox: Writing Well
Create sacred space for crafting your own personal journaling practice with these finds from S&H.
Transform Your Life One Morning at a Time
This now classic practice is much more powerful if you choose the right God
What is Your Super Power?
About a year ago, I was leading a creative writing class and I gave the students this prompt: “If you could be a superhero with one power, what would that power be?” Instantly, sni…
Write Your Own Self-Compassion Proposal
Compassion is a virtue. But what if, by inborn instinct or after diligent learning and practice, you attain this virtue—deeply feeling and expressing compassion for others o…
Writing a Letter of Forgiveness
An adapted excerpt from Tiny Buddha’s 365 Tiny Love Challenges by Lori Deschene
Writing and the Art of Observation
Writers are nothing if not observers of life. Crafting the words is important, but without our observer self we are only typists. As observers we quiet our minds and let our senses…
Writing Oneself Out of Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia (FMS) is a debilitating mix of pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, and depression that is resistant to treatment. Part of the difficulty in treating the millions of Amer…
Writing Practices to Inspire You When You're Stuck
These three books offer guidance in getting words on the page, so you can benefit from the healing power of writing.
Writing to Connect to your Body
A major aspect of my practice has always been about coming home to my body. We live in a culture that doesn’t always honor the body; we tend instead to objectify it as this thing t…
Your Assignment: Complete the Story
Complete the Story of The Sword in the Storytelling Stone and Win $1000
Your Assignment: Heal a Parent/Child Relationship with Good Storytelling
We tried talk therapy and it didn’t work. Our attempts at reconciliation always ended in recrimination and competition. The guilt of a father for deserting the family and the pain …
