by Susan Gabriel | Aug 5, 2014 | Nurturing Creativity
Hi everyone! I hope you are having a wonderful summer. It’s hard to believe it’s already August. I ran across this quote over the weekend and immediately wanted to share it with you. Author and naturalist, Diane Ackerman, creates a wonderful image of how...
by Susan Gabriel | Apr 1, 2014 | Guest Blog Posts, Nature, Nurturing Creativity
The following is a guest post by Wendy Manner, one of the fearless women who participated in my most recent Fearless Writing for Women workshops. ———– Everyone knows gardening is a metaphor for life. After all, “life’s a garden,...
by Susan Gabriel | Jan 22, 2014 | Fearless Writing for Women, Nurturing Creativity, Writers and writing
In a recent interview with Forbes Magazine, Dr. Brene Brown, a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, as well as the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling book, Daring Greatly answered the following question about her...
by Susan Gabriel | May 28, 2013 | Nurturing Creativity, To Inspire, Writers and writing
As a former psychotherapist and a current professional writer, I am well aware of how stressed, burnt out, restless, bored and uninspired this world can make us, especially if we are sensitive or creative types. Things get to us. Not because we’re bad, wrong,...
by Susan Gabriel | Apr 23, 2013 | Nurturing Creativity
After I read this article at www.awakin.org, I felt myself relax a little. I wanted to share it with you, in hopes that you might slow down, take a breath, and relax a little, too. David Whyte, if you haven’t heard of him, is a poet, author and public speaker...
by Susan Gabriel | May 9, 2012 | Artists, Nurturing Creativity
Robert Fritz, author of Your Life as Art, says: You have good days and bad days and everything in-between. This will always be true. It is best to know this, and to know how to create on all of those days. Creating is cumulative, and is first a skill and orientation...
