I have always been creative. Maybe it's because I'm left handed and operate more from the right side of my brain. I loved to draw growing up and played musical instruments. Since I was little I have been drawn to aesthetics...appreciating style and "look." I never dreaded writing assignments in school the way I did other work.

It wasn't until my thirties however, that I truly connected with writing. My Mom gifted me the book "The Artist's Way" back in college and I had left it collecting dust on a shelf for years. Feeling stuck and frustrated with some of my circumstances at the time, I gave in to years of my Mom's nudging and took out "The Artist's Way."

The book tasks you with writing daily "morning pages" in a journal. The assignment is simply to put the pen to the paper and write down whatever is going through your head at that moment, (no matter how pointless, repetitive, unscripted, or ridiculous it seems) and don't stop until you've filled 3 pages. This daily discipline was transformative and I soon realized that journaling was a tool that provided acceptance and led me to solutions and action like nothing else I had ever experienced.

Journaling was for me and nobody else. That's the only way it works (writing knowing that no one else will ever see it). The first time I chose to recreationally write for someone else was during lockdown through the pandemic. As the leader of an organization dedicated to uplifting people's health and wellness that had been abruptly severed from its community; I attempted to keep people connected and engaged by writing weekly newsletters through that time. I was overwhelmed by the responses I received each week when these newsletters hit people's inboxes. I realized that I was able to reach people and provide something positive for them through my writing. It was a very rewarding experience.

I haven't written for anyone else since the newsletters, but the urge to want to find the time to do so persists. I have zero expectations with this blog, other than the fact that if I want to write and share something, it provides the space for me to do so. I am also using it as a place for me to personally file the newsletters that awakened the magic of writing within me.