Sarah Seidelmann

What to Do When It’s the GOOD Stuff That Scares You

July 22, 2024
Posted in

Sometimes, our biggest growth opportunity is revealed when gifts, opportunities or  some other AMAZING GOODNESS appears right in front of us.  Have you ever had something so good happen–that it…

Read More

Do I Contradict Myself? This Week’s List to Help You Show Up and Grow

July 22, 2024
Posted in

Here are some ideas to help you SHOW up and GROW in your own life..and have a little FUN! 1. Can An Ex Pathologist/Decoupage Enthusiast/ Shamanic Devotee Also Be An Influencer? Yes,…

Read More

Gucci NOT Guilty: The Power of PLEASURE is Not Inconsequential

July 15, 2024
Posted in

Here are this week’s ideas to help you SHOW UP AND GROW in your own life.  1. Gucci Not Guilty I’ve been thinking a LOT about #pleasure and all the…

Read More

The Struggle for Worthiness Is REAL

July 6, 2024
Posted in

Here are this week’s ideas to help you SHOW UP AND GROW in your own life. 1. I SOMETIMES STRUGGLE TO FEEL WORTHY.   Many of us are on a journey to…

Read More

Your Triggers Are Your Spiritual Homework.

June 27, 2024
Posted in

Here are this week’s ideas to help you SHOW UP AND GROW in your own life. 1. Your Triggers Are Your Spiritual Homework:  A few years back boudoir photography was…

Read More

What if Everything Works Out?

June 21, 2024
Posted in

1. What if everything works out?  Life has been running pretty smoothly for me in so many ways.  The kids are all out of the house (for now!), it’s been…

Read More

Never Stop Reaching and Applying, Pitching, and Submitting

June 12, 2024
Posted in

My opening for my solo art show (my first official!) was a smash success and I’ve been on a high, ever since, from being with dear friends, famIly and spending…

Read More

Pursuing A Dream Is What Heals Us

June 6, 2024
Posted in

1. Pursuing A Dream Is What Heals Us. My husband and I drove down to visit his dad this weekend who just lost his wife recently.  He’s doing really well, and…

Read More

I m Still Using My Dead Father’s Shampoo

May 13, 2024
Posted in

“The Pugs and Flowers Whispered Their Good Advice”- on show in Grand Marais June 1-30, 2024 at the Grand Marais Art Colony 1. I am still using my dead father’s…

Read More

A FREE CLASS on Creativity from Me + My Favorite Soma Yoga on Youtube

April 30, 2024
Posted in

Dear readers, Mailchimp (or Mailchimp’s AI robot?) has apparently read my newsletters and encouraged me to more SKIMMABLE.  Gah! But, it’s so hard when you have so much to share!…

Read More

The Biggest Reason to Do A Creative Soul Retrieval

April 15, 2024
Posted in

Here are a few things that are giving me life…. 1. Quantity Versus Quality.  Years ago when I was doing some research for the 100 day project, I stumbled upon this…

Read More

The Comfort of Symbols in Grief and Loss, My Mother’s Mustard Jar

April 9, 2024
Posted in

1.  The Wonderful Comfort of Symbols.  When I was in  crisis in 2010 ((leaving medicine for a spiritual journey into writing and more..), it was the symbolic meaning of wild…

Read More

Insead of Banishing Your Inner Critic, Choose This Instead.

March 29, 2024
Posted in

1. A New Way to Think About Your Inner Critic:  I still hear wonderful teachers of creativity admonishing people to tell their inner critic to SHUT UP ALREADY, or to…

Read More

It’s Important to Share Our Miracle Stories

March 20, 2024
Posted in ,

Here are a few things that are giving me life…. 1. It’s important to share about the miracles we experience.  This is something I learned about the conditions that make miracles possible in…

Read More

Buying Art for Your Home That You Love is An Act of Self Care

March 16, 2024
Posted in

As a 9 year old child, my parents took me to the National Gallery on a vacation and I was able to chose a print to take home. I chose…

Read More

Am I Afraid of Pleasure?

March 16, 2024
Posted in

Here are five feel good ideas that are giving me life…. 1.  Could I Be Afraid of Pleasure?  I believe it when Brene Brown says that the emotion we are most…

Read More

There Are Many Ways to Pray

March 5, 2024
Posted in

Here are five ideas that are giving me life…. 1. There Are Many Ways to Pray.  Prayer is something I’ve always been curious about.  I wrote about what my mom…

Read More

4 Ideas and Some Art That Are Giving Me Life

February 29, 2024
Posted in

(new work “Open Heart” by me…36 x 36″ Mixed media on canvas Available.   “Gertrude Stein defined LOVE as ‘the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.‘…Stein’s idea suggests that…

Read More

5 Ideas GIving me Life This Week

February 22, 2024
Posted in

(art featured above is “When She Took Care of Herself Everythign Flowed: To purchase visit this page.  “In my life I have found two things of priceless worth – learning…

Read More

Confessions of a Former Banister Polisher

February 6, 2024
Posted in

“You Are So Magnificent” by Sarah Seidelmann Art is Available Something odd happened the summer I went on sabbatical from my medical practice and began to explore writing/life-coaching and a…

Read More

Beautiful Things Grow Out of Ugly Things

February 4, 2024
Posted in

(Matisse’s Red Room from my sketchbook drawn at MOMA in New York City) Here Are 5 Ideas That Are Giving Me Life This Week   1.  I could let it be…

Read More

My Favorite Uncommon Books of 2023

January 19, 2024
Posted in

Here are a few of the uncommon books that truly hit the spot for me in 2023.  (in no specific order) Foreverland by Heather Havrilesky (memoir) I don’t think I have…

Read More

Dave Chapelle on Creativity and John Green on How To Know What to Do Next

January 2, 2024
Posted in

I have so many things to share with YOU that I decided to try out a LIST format again. I hope you find something here to inspire you! 1.  I was reading…

Read More

My Biggest Insights in 2023

December 31, 2023
Posted in

The longest day of the year will soon be behind us. I am soaking up the darkness and exploring those things that go bump in the night inside of me.  Soon…

Read More

Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Write Your Book in 2024 by Sarah Seidelmann

December 20, 2023
Posted in

At age 43 I got a strange yearning to write books.  One year later, in 2011,  I self published my first book. A year after that, I published Born to FREAK.…

Read More

Patience is Also An Action and other Feel Good Ideas for You Now

December 11, 2023
Posted in

1. Vitamin P is my supplement of choice heading into 2024. If there is one thing I’ve learned in 56 years,  it is that all good things take time.  Friendships.…

Read More

Best Holiday Gifts Created By Sarah Seidelmann for People Who Love Transformation!!

November 16, 2023
Posted in

 A Mug for Your Friend Who’s Been Mentioning She Could Use A Few More Boundaries…. (“There’s No Way In HAELLLLLL I’m DOing That” 2. A Daily Reader for That Friend…

Read More

I’m So Sorry: The Grief and Invisible Loss of the Artist + Creator

November 13, 2023
Posted in

Photo: Wolfskull Cretive If you are an artist or a writer/creative, I AM SO SORRY.   As I was re-skimming The Artist’s Way for the bajillionth time this week, it hit…

Read More

You Were Born to SHINE and Write Your Memoir!

November 6, 2023
Posted in

Here are 5 things I’m Extremely KEEN on this week! 1. You will Astonish Yourself:  This is what I have learned by doing 100 day projects and (NOW!) 30 day…

Read More

Reverse Bucket Lists and More

October 25, 2023
Posted in

Here are 5 things I’m Extremely KEEN on this week! 1.  Reverse Bucket Lists Rock.  It’s fabulous to have outrageous dreams and goals.  But, sometimes they can overshadow things and…

Read More
owl

Work With Me

Serve your soul. Feel good. Learn why this is the most powerful thing you can do.

snail

Books & iPhone App

Do Beasties have a message for you? Are you irrepressible and born to FREAK?

zebra

Programs & Events

Live, love and learn how to Feel Good with Sarah - in person or online!

stoked-life-sidebar

The Stoked Life

A 5-part pre-recorded course on how to approach life the way traditional Shamanic peoples would