The Me-Time Mixtape: Three essential hand-curated links and resources on creative self-care. Carve out some me time this week!
Almost one year after my trip to the Netherlands and an inspiring visit to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, I'm exploring Van Gogh's letters and an amazing quote on achieving great things through small actions strung together. This idea of small steps can be applied to our creative passions, work toward our personal growth goals, and many aspects of our creative self-care. Check out today's episode and get inspired by the power of small actions.
#1 Van Gogh's Letters
Want to learn what a post-impressionist master wrote to his brother? Want to pull the curtain and explore what Van Gogh was reading and who was influencing his paintings? Check out his letters. Personal, provocative, and poignant.
#2 A Post-Mother's Day Essay
What does a 93-year-old say via text to her daughter? Turns out, ALOT of interesting stuff. Insights and musings churned up and texted with a superb vocabulary and the insight of someone who has lived a long life. This essay made me wish my mom could text. One of the saddest parts of my mom's loss of expressive language due to her Alzheimer's is knowing that I'm missing not only what she has to say, but the way she would say it. This article made me smile. 💜💛
Karen Salmansohn
#3 Reframing the Empty-Nester Journey
In this episode of The Mel Robbins' podcast, she's recasting the term empty-nester to "bird launcher," and I like it. This positive take on reframing empty nesting came just in time for my daughter's college graduation in a few weeks. How four years went by that fast is beyond my comprehension! But here I am.
I've got plenty of projects to launch in my bird launcher phase of life, but Mel reminds us that this transition may feel like we are trying to shovel two feet of snow with a spoon. We don't yet have the pathways, mentally, physically, or emotionally, to handle the loneliness and loss we can feel in an "empty" home, and her holistic approach to coping makes so much sense.
This life transition isn't just an emotional journey, it's a mind/body journey that involves reworking mental pathways. Building these new pathways will center around a startling question: How do we want to live on the other side of this major life transition?
Latest Podcast Episode
Episode #55: Van Gogh on Great Things from Smallness: Why Little Steps Matter
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