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Remember Your Special Role to Reenergize

November 25, 2024
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“She Finally Found the Thing That Worked” Acrylic, collage and oil pastel on canvas. Original is available. Here are a few ideas from me to help you SHOW up and…

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Can You Live in a Posture of Giving?

November 20, 2024
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“It was time for her to FLY.”  Acrylic on paper by Sarah Bamford Seidelmann SOLD Here are a few ideas from me to help you show up and grow in…

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Your Daily Habits Are Forming You

November 11, 2024
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My new ONLINE exhibition opens Friday Nov 15 at 8 am Central and subscribers to my newsletter will be the first to see it!  Subscribe now to receive early exclusive…

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Fat AND Happy

November 5, 2024
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Here are a few ideas from me to help you show up and grow in your own life! 1. You Have A Gift, Honor It.  I ADORE the poem I…

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Studio Sale In Duluth This Week and Tips to Help You Show Up and Grow In Your LIfe

October 28, 2024
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We do not become healers. We came as healers. We are. Some of us are still catching up to what we are.   We do not become storytellers. We came…

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This Week’s Resources for Healers and Helpers!

October 15, 2024
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(art above by Sarah Seidelmann- “Maximalism Suited Her/Resting Tiger Face) inquire at Ghost Ship Gallery – [email protected])  This Week’s Resources for Healers and Helpers! 1. Quote That Rocked Me this…

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5 Pachydermal Tips to Bring Peace to Your Holiday Season

October 10, 2024
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  (image of Alice the Elephant) Though it may seem unlikely that an elephant could know anything about navigating the wild and woolly holiday season that is now upon us…

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How Am I Complicit In Creating the Conditions I Say I Don’t Want?

October 10, 2024
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Art above.  Here are a few ideas from me to help you show up and grow in your own life! 1. Powerful Questions Help.    How am I complicit in creating the…

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Somebody Put Up A Boundary With Me and I Liked It!

September 30, 2024
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Last  week I received an email with disappointing news!  A rather famous author and person I admire put a boundary up with me! In May, this same lovely person had…

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Tales from My First Artist Residency

September 24, 2024
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Greetings from My Final Week of My Artist Residency! 1.  Alpacas Get FOMO Too.    I went with a friend to visit a local alpaca farm (watch the REEL here!) and when we…

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Read This Poem Every Day Until It Sinks In

September 8, 2024
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(Image: Our documentary is an OFFICIAL SELECTION for the Duluth-Superior Film Festival and will screen on Sunday Oct 6th at 12:30 pm at Zinema in Duluth! I would love to…

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You’ve Got Nerve to Reinvent Yourself and Other Feel Good Ideas

August 28, 2024
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My Dad was born during the Great Depression and Taught Me Stuff. He encouraged us to turn off lights and to buy our cars used.  In grad school, I subscribed…

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Unda Presha: My 5 Best Ways to Show Up and Grow This Week

August 14, 2024
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Like me, you want to SHOW UP and GROW in your life!  Let’s do it! Here are my best ideas for the week! 1.  UNDAAAH PRESSHAAH….(cue the David Bowie Tune)…

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6 Things I Learned from the Life of Georgia O’Keefe: A Visit to Ghost Ranch

August 9, 2024
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I returned from Ghost Ranch full of inspirations!  If you’d like to tour my sketchbook (8 min!) that is here.    A few Things I learned from Spending Time with Georgia…

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The Power of Sunrise and Allowing the Good to FLOW Into Your LIfe

July 30, 2024
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Here are some ideas to help you SHOW up and GROW in your own life..and have a little FUN! 1.  Something REALLY wonderful happened 🌻, then, I freaked out. 😰  …

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

July 22, 2024
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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…

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

July 22, 2024
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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,…

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Gucci NOT Guilty: The Power of PLEASURE is Not Inconsequential

July 15, 2024
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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…

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The Struggle for Worthiness Is REAL

July 6, 2024
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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…

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Your Triggers Are Your Spiritual Homework.

June 27, 2024
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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…

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What if Everything Works Out?

June 21, 2024
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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…

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Never Stop Reaching and Applying, Pitching, and Submitting

June 12, 2024
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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…

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Pursuing A Dream Is What Heals Us

June 6, 2024
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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…

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I m Still Using My Dead Father’s Shampoo

May 13, 2024
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“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…

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

April 30, 2024
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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!…

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The Biggest Reason to Do A Creative Soul Retrieval

April 15, 2024
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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…

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

April 9, 2024
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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…

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Insead of Banishing Your Inner Critic, Choose This Instead.

March 29, 2024
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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…

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It’s Important to Share Our Miracle Stories

March 20, 2024
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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…

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

March 16, 2024
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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…

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