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Journal Prompts #17: Dancing in the Dark

Hot Shower Haiku, Vol. 5 (A Bonus Collection)

Journal Prompts #16: Cozy Corners

Falling in Like with my Period

Audit & Ask: December

Calling in Sick Today? Read this.

Whose holidays are you living and why?

A Retreat Recap and a Giant Pop-Tart Recipe

Look Around & Pay Attention #4

Hot Shower Haiku, Vol. #4

An Inner Voice I am Only Getting to Know Now

Journal Prompts #15: On Mattering

Audit & Ask: November

A Poem on a Monday

Journal Prompts #14: On Emotions and Sticky Stories

Saturday Musings

When you change and people notice and then you notice.

Audit & Ask: October

Journal Prompts #13: On Adding Color

I finally watched the ROCKY I-IV movies (for the first time ever) and I have thoughts.

Look Around and Pay Attention #3

Journal Prompts #12: On Yearning

Audit & Ask: September

To Be Un-entertained or Not to Be, That is the Question

Dear Jacki #4: Define 'Shy'

The word 'try' is in the word 'artistry'. Just saying.

Hot Shower Haiku, Vol. #3

Journal Prompts #11: Inner Drama

How Loneliness and Vulnerability are quite the pair and I am starting a Vulnerability Club

The Audit & Ask: August

Journal Prompts #10: On Home

Move all the Way to Maine, Still me? Ugh.

Look Around and Pay Attention #2

Journal Prompts #9: On Being Surprised

Do you ever get annoyed with yourself? Me too.

I <3 Romance Novels 4ever

The Audit & Ask: July

Journal Prompts #8: On Emotional Honesty

Share the words and you will be a 'subscriber with benefits'

They said something like: 'the world has to be beautiful for us to save it'

The Deafening Irony of a Rocking Chair

Journal Prompts #7: On Relationships

When Feeling Lost, Look Around and Pay Attention

Beyond the Pews

Dear Jacki #3: Can we Talk Imposter Syndrome?

Day 5 of 365 Days at the Beach, a Goal in Action

Journal Prompts #6: On Listening

The Audit & Ask | June

8 Ways to Know a Job Is or is Not For You

Hot Shower Haiku, Vol. #2

Journal Prompts #5: On the Vulnerability of Hope

100 Days, No Instagram

"Do you have any friends?" she asked

The Audit & Ask | MAY

Journal Prompts #4: On Body Literacy

Am I a Risk-Taker or am I Being Honest?

Dear Jacki #2: On how to choose myself now?

Square Peg, Round Hole

Journal Prompts #3: To See Art in All Things, What if?

A Moment in Reverie: Ear to Bellybutton

The Audit & Ask

Mixtape in the Form of an Intro

Journal Prompts #2: On Belonging

An Ode to my Espresso Machine.

Remember Magic Eye books?

Journal Prompts #1

If They Chop Open My Body...

Dear Jacki #1: Moved to a new state, am an introvert working remotely, how to build a community IRL?

Life beyond Instagram...so far

The Grit of Women.

Dear Jacki...

I ❤️ Self Help

6 Public Speaker Tips to try Today...

Hurricane Mother

Hot Shower Haiku, Vol #1

33 Reasons I left Instagram today...

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