Category: Self Care
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Sometimes it really is all too much…and that’s OK.
I originally published this article in January of 2012, after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Back then I was a life and business coach. Certainly my current work of facilitating writing workshops has me holding space for folks in a different way, but vicarious trauma can happen to anyone in any line of […]
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An unexpected conversation
Today I sat in community and nourishing conversation with independent business women, artists, solo practitioners—sisters in entrepreneurial endeavors. I brought with me my struggle with overwhelm and a question about finding and tending the energy needed to do my work with passion and integrity. I’m so glad I did. It was such a good conversation. […]
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Please. Don’t look away.
So many people responded when I published this in my newsletter this morning that it feels important to share it more widely. So, from my heart to yours… With devastation of all kinds in so many places around the world, you’re probably overflowing with advice about how to help or where to give. Me too. But […]
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Writer’s Block remedy
Sometimes when life has tossed a challenge at me, I get stuck in hamster-wheel thinking. Churning the same thoughts and beliefs around and around. “Squeak, squeak, squeak…” Reaching the same conclusions over and over until I just wish I could pop my head off, give it a good shake, and snow-globe myself into a different […]
Tracie Nichols, M.A. 