The Magic Formula + The Show Up For Your Life Experiment
When I’m interested in something I become a master researcher. I want to know all about it. I troll the internet, research people who have and are doing what I’m interested in, learn their stories and...
View ArticleFab Find Friday – 4.6.12: Mexico Photo Journal
I was fortunate this past week to be in Mexico and on my computer less than normal so this week’s installment of Fab Find Friday is a little bit of fab find at the bottom but mostly is a vacation photo...
View ArticleA Different Way of Journaling
Sometimes words don’t tell the whole story and you need a different pathway of expression. And, sometimes what you’re trying to say – or extract/muse/reveal/discover in yourself – is going to come...
View ArticleWhat I Learned From 30 Days of Her – What a Beautiful Evolution!!
(pictures at the bottom of this post) In April, upon returning from a wildly colorful trip to Mexico, I was inspired to paint one 1-2 hour painting of a woman every day, which I called 30 Days of Her....
View ArticleHarnessing the Power a Year Has in Your Life
Our lives are wildly dynamic and ever growing like Passion Vines planted with deep cosmic fertilizer. So much happens in the course of ONE DAY, let alone a year, that sometimes it seems like it all...
View ArticleYou Only Feel Miserable When You’re Comparing Yourself to Others
I spent a good portion of this past week watching Sue Bryce on creativeLIVE. The first time she came on in March changed my life. Seriously. At that point I had been interested and looking into...
View ArticleHow Do You Feel About Aging?
Lauren Hutton ______________________________________________________________________________ Aging – It’s happening to every one of us. Every day there are tiny changes in your collagen, hair, and...
View ArticleYour Life Can Change in Unexpectedly Fantastic Ways in the Blink of an Eye
Work environments from my LA portrait shoot trip including… My awesome friend Robin who assisted several of my shoots, my friend Erin who had the doors blown off her reality when the MAC guy put red...
View ArticleDo You Have Your 2013 Calendar Yet? If Not, Get We'Moon, My Art's in It!
I might be one of the last people I know who uses a paper day planner/calendar, but I swear I can’t remember things unless I write them down. For probably 10 years I’ve been using We’Moon calendar as I...
View ArticleHello From the Caribbean and Goodbye to Lily the Westie
Right now I’m on Grand Cayman Island for WORK. Crazy, huh? But sooooo fantastic! If you ever get the opportunity to come to the Caribbean, do it! The water is b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l, clear, aqua, warm, and...
View ArticleDare to Be Bold. You Never Know What Awesomeness Will Come of It!
This may truly be one of the best questions you can ask yourself. I have a great BE BOLD story for you… I have an awesome friend also named Robin who is one of my photography wing-women. When I was in...
View ArticleArt Studio Open House
This year has been FILLED with firsts and last weekend was another one – participating in an open house for my new and first photography/art studio! It was fabulous, fun, colorful, creatively...
View ArticleA Personal Tale of Love, the Power of Our Words, & the Magic of Life
A year ago this weekend Baby Cat entered Darren and my life. It happened like this: In the morning, as I was peering out the window, I genuinely said: I wish a stray cat would appear. In Venice I had...
View ArticleLetting Yourself Evolve
Me last night on the beach in Santa Monica at the end of a photo shoot I’m writing you from LA today where I’ve been for a couple days doing some photography work. Last night after a great photo shoot...
View ArticleSetting Goals, Facing Resistance, & Finding the Inspiration to Stay Focused
Welcoming in Year of the Horse I set intentions for myself this year that are aimed at elevating and evolving parts of my life to levels I’ve not yet experienced. This is exciting. I have no idea how...
View ArticleThere Are No Rules You Can Follow That Are Better Than Listening to Your...
We all want to feel safe and know how to succeed, look good, and do it right. We think if we keep following rules, agreements, and stories that worked in the past, we’ll be able to protect ourselves...
View ArticleTaking Your Power Back From Ego When You’re Upset
Lately I’ve been going through something that’s pressing my buttons. I’m not to the point where I can share it with with you and wrap the post up with a pretty pink bow of what I’ve learned. But I can...
View ArticleThe Power of Being Transparent
Let me start by saying that being emotionally transparent and vulnerable does not come easily to me. My mom reports that she and my dad would call me into the living room when I was little to explain...
View ArticleIt’s Amazing How People Will Show Up… When You Tell Them What’s Really Going...
This past month Darren and I completed our three-year relationship. The process began in the beginning of May and came to a full close-the-door shut completion the weekend of Summer Solstice. During...
View ArticleInclude Yourself
I think we all have a part of us that feels like an outsider. We look at other people and perceive them as more lovable, savvy, fit, skilled, successful, or fill-in-the-blank than we are and we feel...
View ArticleNavigating the Writing Path: From Start to Finish
Today I’m giving you a bird’s eye view into my writing process! Where I get inspiration from, how I see my pieces through, and my best piece of advice to inspire your own creativity. I’m doing this...
View ArticleEven When Things Seem to Be Falling Apart, You Can Trust Life (Really)
When I moved back to the Bay Area from LA at the beginning of 2009 I wasn’t sure where I wanted to live. I also had very little money so the first few months, before I got a job and got my finances...
View ArticleReality Check: The Grass is Greener Where You Water It
I have a friend who’s got that thing. She’s one of those people who, while walking down the street, sipping a drink, or chit-chatting at a party, people will turn and gaze at. Not because she’s all...
View ArticleTake a Step Toward Being the Person You Want to Be With
When you reflect on your life and SEE… The patterns in who you attract. The dynamics and roles you (largely unconsciously) play out. And your repeated stories and complaints about what you attract…...
View ArticleYour Beliefs Aren’t Keeping You Safe – They’re Keeping You in the Past
When Darren and I completed our relationship earlier this year, I believed I needed to not see or speak to him for at least 6 months to heal. A year would have been better. But at least 6 months. I’d...
View ArticleGuest Blogging at The Girl Who Knows
Ask and you shall receive, right? This past year I was thinking about blogging and how to become a better writer. I was curious about writing for other people’s blogs to connect with new people and...
View ArticleThe First Time I Learned to Choose Truth Over Keeping a Relationship Alive
There were 90 some people in my high school class. 60ish of the students were girls, 30ish were boys. Of the 30ish boys, 7 were what my friends very subjectively considered dateable. Of those 7, two...
View ArticleGuest Blogging at The Girl Who Knows & What I Learned (pt. 2)
The past few months I’ve done some guest blogging at The Girl Who Knows. Below are links to 2 recent posts. I also thought I’d share with you a bit of what I learned from the experience. 1. Deadlines...
View ArticleUnplugging & Taking a Break is a Beautiful Thing
It’s OK to take time off. Like actually shut off your phone and computer and live your life in a more analog (dare I say, more human?) way. For an hour, a day, a week, a month. Modern life values...
View ArticleIf You Can Visualize It You Can Build It
I’m on the Big Island right now in the middle of a 3-week vacation… a treat I don’t think I’ve had since the 90s when Phish was delicious enough for me to leave my digs for this extended of a time....
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