Dr Rachel Connor
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Dr Rachel Connor
You're not a writer, you're a problem solver.
Your words should educate, inspire, or entertain.
Ana Calinsubstack.comConnecting into why it’s valuable. Sometimes you get so lost in a project that you forget why you started it in the first place, or why doing this kind of work is important to you at all. If you reconnect to that, you’ll raise the perceived value of doing the work in your brain—and it will make it easier to stick with. Try writing about why the... See more
Dan Shipper • Why You're Not Doing Creative Work
Grief can open the door to holy desire, which in turn leads us into the arms of that which we yearn for.
Mirabai Starr • Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
... See more“While grief may look like an expression of pain that serves no purpose, it is actually the soul’s acknowledgment of what we value. Grief is the honour we pay to that which is dear to us. And it is only through the connection to what we cherish that we can know how to move forward. In this way, grief is motion.”
– Toko-pa Turner “Belonging:
"Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed our inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure. Unfortunately,”