Write, Breath, Create, Publish… Unleash your Creativity!
I work with people who want to bring more of their creativity into the world.
I offer one to one consultations as well as a variety of Workshops and classes that help you get started or keep going! My Bio>

It can be as simple as getting you going on your spiritual journaling, to the more involved process of helping you to get published. I use my skills in intuitive counseling, writing, psychological training, transpersonal consulting, meditation and breath work to help you unleash your potential into reality. You may be a singer, writer, artist, bus driver, window washer or teacher whose creativity is somehow blocked. Or, you may just need a little support to take the next step in your creative life. Let me help you.

Workshops & Classes:

The Unleashed Manuscript ™
This is a workshop for those of you who want to develop, design and “Unleash” your book proposals out into the big, wide publishing world. I have designed many successful book proposals for clients and myself. This workshop will be intimate and detailed. I will take you through a mockup proposal. You will have everything you need to send out a dynamic and successful book proposal. We will take time to develop a query letter; a cover letter, a sales pitch, an author’s bio and the outline of a book proposal that publishers will read. As is part of my work, we will address areas where you may be stuck and holding back through the use of some breathing brief exercises and cognitive treatments. There will be time where we will write and you will receive helpful feedback. Finally, I will introduce you to successful research techniques in landing your perfect publisher.

These classes are ideal for those of you who have a book idea developing (you don’t have to have anything written), or already have a part or complete manuscript written.

Spiritual Journaling: Writing Your Way to Freedom
A 10-week class that deepens your spiritual practice and opens you up to more of your creative and personal freedom. This class is for anyone wanting to explore journal writing as an avenue of exploration, creativity and insight. Writing exercises, breathing techniques, meditations, creative visualizations and mandala art will all be explored during this dynamic class. The cost of the 10 week class, limited to 10 is $250.00/$25 per class. A $75 deposit is needed to hold your place. This class is offered in Madison, Prairie du Sac, and Viroqua Wisconsin. Register>

A 3-hour workshop (as part of a larger program) or a one-day workshop on Spiritual Journaling is also available.

The Writing Intensive -Retreat.
I offer this one-day retreat on my 40 acres in Bear Valley, Wisconsin, or in other retreat settings. During this retreat you will be writing; taping into a deeper connection to the Creative Genius within; and energizing your writing intentions. We practice writing meditations and rituals and engage in breath work to unleash your creativity. There will be time to explore the natural world and how this can help with your writing intention.
Please contact me for more information on this retreat.

Natural Rhythms: Your Personal Timing
All through our lives we have been expected to function according to other people's timing. You have to show up at work at a scheduled times, are expected to attend college, have children, get married and eat dinner all at given times in one's life. There seems to be a “right” time for everything-when you should start dating, to when you should retire. Although there is a natural timing for everything in nature, human beings have lost touch with this natural timing. Our culture really interferes with our own natural and personal rhythms - advertisements, popular television shows and movies, music, social and religious organizations, and businesses all dictate what you should be doing and when.
We lose touch with the natural timing that is within our bodies and psyches.

Traditional cultures realized that each of us has his or her own natural rhythms, his or her own pace. Like fingerprints, each person's timing is unique, even sacred. Not surprisingly, many people suffer because they are caught between what feels like the appropriate time to do something and when others expect them to do it. Some people live their entire lives according to timetables imposed by others. If you know someone who is unhappy, you will probably discover that they have been denying their own sense of timing. An example might be: “My grandfather wanted my dad to put off school and stay and help him on the farm, so he never did make it to college.” Or, often times feeling “lazy” or “rushed,” or “overwhelmed” are all signs that you are on someone else's timing and not your own.

Feeling out of sync with what society sees as the “ideal” timetable and pace for life can distort your self-image. Back in 1991 I was feeling upset with myself. All my life I had felt I was lazy. I liked those times I gave myself to just hang out at home and do nothing. But I always had some unfinished project hanging over my head. I often felt overwhelmed by the feeling that I was a lazy person. At the time, it was so much on my mind that I shared it with my spiritual advisor.

She smiled at me and asked, “How many books have you written so far?” Isn't it true you have a successful business and own your own home, and you find time to play and relax? I laughed at myself. I realized that I was carrying my father's timing (he was a workaholic). I discovered that I was beating myself over the head with other people's notions of timing. For my father, there were no weekends off. I had thought my life should “look” a certain way but it wasn't my way.

To manifest your own personal intentions and dreams, you need to honor your own timing. Tuning in to your own timing will help alleviated frustration at not doing things when other people are doing them, (or even in the way they do them), and will empower you to make choices based on when the time is right for you. Nothing cramps a creative spirit like feeling pressured to do something when you aren't ready or being held back from doing something when you do feel ready.

We all must claim our timing, take back our timing, our internal rhythms from those who possess them (bosses, parents, friends, colleagues, institutions). We don't have to go through our lives plugged into the rhythms and intentions of others.

Here are a few methods to claim back your timing:

1. Become aware of your own unique timing (which changes throughout our lives);
2. Become aware of whose timing you are fulfilling.
3. Practice not rushing yourselves or others. Rushing is a form of violence.
4. Begin or reestablish a meditation and journaling practice;
5. Do something out of sync with the general publics, or work's timing;
6. Take regular time in Nature, to help you reconnect with that natural timing;
7. Break a simple habit this week, and then another next week.
9. Read A Hidden Wholeness by Parker Palmer
8. Read Spiritual Journaling by Julie Tallard Johnson
9. Include in your holiday celebrations acknowledgment of the seasonal holiday (Winter Solstice coming up).

Across the wall of the world,
A River sings a beautiful song. It says,
Come, rest here by my side.

Lift up your eyes
Upon this day breaking for you.
Give birth again
To the dream.
- Maya Angelou, poet

Write about “being in sync' using the following words: fool, wind, native, earth, green, arrow.

Rise up with the sun and journal about what needs regeneration in your life.

Start writing your life story in your journal.

Write about the impossible being possible.

Write about the color blue.

My writing bio: Author of eight published books and recipient of several writing awards, including the winner of The Independent Book Publisher Awards, 2002. “Teen Psychic: Exploring Your Intuitive Spiritual Powers” received a star review in Publisher’s Weekly, 2004 as a “book of depth and merit.” I have written in journals and practiced meditation since the age of 16. My most recent book: “Spiritual Journaling: Writing Your Way to Independence” helps the reader gain independence through journal writing. I have successfully helped clients get published, and students in my classes and workshops appreciate my ability to encourage them on their own creative, spiritual path. I am presently working on my autobiographical fiction, “The Hallow Bone.”

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Workshops & Classes:

“This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attentiveness.”
-Mary Oliver, poet

Books for Teens

Workshops & Classes:

“This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attentiveness.” -Mary Oliver, poet

Books for Teens

“This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attentiveness.”
-Mary Oliver, poet