Visualizing Protection

Marie is a massage therapist and energy worker based in New Mexico who has come to me for tarot readings for years. “I’m having these unusual dark thoughts,” she told me during a recent reading. “Of course, I have negative thoughts from time to time, but these are different. Invasive. And not really at all […]

Creativity Can Pull You Out of the Dark Night of the Soul

In WATER, my fourth novel, I describe my own dark night of the soul more than 25 years ago, and how finding my voice as a novelist and mystic helped pull me out of it.  Today, depression, and anxiety are skyrocketing as the world goes through an unprecedented shift.  Just as meditation, yoga and exercise can […]

Structuring Creative Time in 5 Easy Steps

For more than two decades I’ve been honing the scheduling around my creative practice. And I’ve been helping book clients and others do the same. As a novelist, visual artist, and coach, I’ve had to learn the magic of transition from helping others to working on my craft. I’ve had to figure out the best schedule […]

Finding Support as a Woman Artist

10 Hard-Won Lessons I grew up in rural Missouri with conservative parents. Almost every lesson I learned as a girl (knitting, sewing, cooking, cleaning) was how to run a household and how to support a man. I wanted out. I wanted to find own way. I wanted a real voice. First, I had to reach […]

5 Ways to Engage the Magic of Your Inner Child

 I was at the beach at Nehalem Bay in Oregon a few months ago. A 5-year-old girl was doing the worm in the sand, her mother standing nearby. “Is that the worm?” I asked her. “Yes!” She wormed some more. She jumped up and ran up to me and my dog Atlas. I held his […]

Novel Wins Gold Visionary Award

Excited to announce that my fourth novel, WATER, has won an Indie Publisher Gold Medal for Visionary Fiction. Pearl Swinton is drowning in a dark night of the soul. In the depths, she hears a cry to purpose, but to what? A former journalist who has spent years trying to outrun her psychic visions, Pearl meets […]

5 Easy Steps for Breaking Through Anxiety into Creativity

Years ago, a journalist friend in Seattle came over to my apartment. She’d just returned from Afghanistan, where she was responsible for setting up a newsroom and training local journalists. When she arrived, she was so exhausted and drained to her very core, she could barely walk or talk. I knew the feeling. I’d given […]