Feeling Good

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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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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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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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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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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Confessions of a Former Banister Polisher

February 6, 2024
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“You Are So Magnificent” by Sarah Seidelmann This one is SOLD but other work is available here.  Something odd happened the summer I went on sabbatical from my medical practice…

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My Favorite Uncommon Books of 2023

January 19, 2024
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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…

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

January 2, 2024
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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…

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My Biggest Insights in 2023

December 31, 2023
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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…

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

December 20, 2023
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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.…

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

November 16, 2023
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 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…

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How to Deal with Eclipse Intensity and More

October 19, 2023
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Here are 5 things I’m Extremely KEEN on this week! 1. When Everything Has Gone to Hell. There is a heartbreaking war happening in Israel and Gaza. Anti-Semetic violence is…

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Mary Oliver’s Counterintuitive Advice for Artists and Creatives

October 12, 2023
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I’m extremely grateful to be HERE in your inbox and I dream that what you find here encourages and uplifts you. Here are 5 things I’m Extremely KEEN on this…

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What If Your Work Won’t Be Celebrated Until After You’re Dead?

September 3, 2023
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(image above: “Progeny” Acrylic on Canvas (SOLD) Here are 5 things I’m Extremely KEEN on this week! 1. What if you will be CELEBRATED, but not until AFTER you’re dead….…

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Goosebumps Are the New Prozac

July 24, 2023
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(my new professional photo from Jen Clark Photography!) Here is my short list of FEEL GOOD ideas I hope will inspire you!  1. Goosebumps are the new prozac:  If you are…

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How to Become A Working Artist: 22 Tips from British Artist Emily Powell

July 22, 2023
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(photo from Emily’s Instagram) Emily Powell is an amazing artist living in Devon, England who I discovered via instagram.I’m her biggest fan.  She’s got an energetic and bright style which…

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Woo-Woo was Used By Some of the Most Brilliant People in History, You’re in Good Company!

July 8, 2023
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Dear Creators of WONDER and MAGIC- I’m extremely grateful to be HERE in your inbox and I dream that what you find here encourages and uplifts you. Here is my…

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Finding A Way Forward When You Are Feeling Stuck: A Simple Method

June 5, 2023
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(art: The Bears Are Waking Up by me, prints and more here.) My four kids were finally asleep by 7:30 pm. With Justin Bieber cranked to eleven, I sat in…

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What Letting Go REALLY Looks Like

May 31, 2023
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Here is my short list of FEEL GOOD ideas I hope will inspire you!  1. I’m Out of the Ditch and I’ve Discovered Cheese Sauce:  I mentioned a few weeks…

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How I Began Painting and Why Painting Matters

May 18, 2023
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What in your life is calling you, When all the noise is silenced, The meetings adjourned… The lists laid aside, And the Wild Iris blooms By itself In the dark…

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Living Together Apart: How Sleeping Apart Just Might Improve A Relationship

February 27, 2023
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(image above: My Solo Bedroom) 1. LIVING TOGETHER APART. Last summer I did a series of 100 digital illustrations about self- respecting boundaries.  That 100 days was incredibly potent and happened…

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Declaring Winter is OVER

February 16, 2023
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(original art and prints available HERE) I’m extremely grateful that you have come to visit me here and I dream that what you find here encourages and uplifts you. My…

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It’s time TO OWN

January 25, 2023
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“My Other Mother” When my mom (that’s her mustard jar holding the flowers) was in her dying process we had a stolen moment and she shared with my that she…

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HELLO AND 5 FEEL GOOD IDEAS!

December 22, 2022
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For those of you who are newish here, salutations!  I’m Sarah. I like to thrift hard! Free furniture on the roadside makes my heart go pitter patter and my imagination SOAR.…

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Mindy Kaling Does It and You Should Too!

November 14, 2022
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1. Your Message to the World is UNIQUE.  12 years ago, I really didn’t have an understanding of my special gifts.  Once I got an inkling of what mine was…

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Get Thee A Body Double

October 14, 2022
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Here are 5 FEEL GOOD ideas for you to consider! 1. GET YOURSELF A BODY DOUBLE  A few summers ago, my office was a disaster but I was avoiding working on it. …

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The Power of SUBTRACTION

October 14, 2022
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Here are 5 FEEL GOOD ideas for you to consider! 1. It is SUBTRACTION of things that can create more CALM, SERENE SPACES.  In our Tiger’s Nest program for the…

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Boundaries Are Built On Self-Love

September 2, 2022
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By the time you are reading this, I will have my bags packed and I will be anticipating my second journey into the Amazon jungle (GAH!) to sit and study…

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Codependency is SNEAKY and more!

August 29, 2022
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Day 83/100  My Summer of NO: 100 Days of Self-Respecting Boundaries” All the art is made by me using public domain images and procreate app. You can follow me here…

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