Creative Sparks

Creative Sparks provides tools, guidance and soul inspiration about once a week to:
Ignite and sustain your creativity • Identify and realize your heart’s true dreams • Live a life of passion, purpose and deep play
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2022 My Year in Review
What a year 2022 was, hard and strange, and way too fast. And yet, many beautiful blessings happened too. Significant movement toward long-held dreams. The only reason I can make progress toward my dreams in such a crazy world is because, every year, I engage in a...
Planting Dream Seeds for the New Year
Last night my women’s group did a ritual for the new year, one in which we uncovered our dream seeds. We each released an old pattern that we are ready to let go, something that has been hindering us. We danced and shrieked, yelped and shook to let it go. And we were...
Six Things to Inspire Your Heart and Feed Your Soul
For my beloved patrons on Patreon, I regularly share posts about What's Inspiring Me Now. These are wide-ranging and are meant to offer patrons new sources of juicy inspiration they might want to tap into. Today, I thought I'd share this on my own blog for all to...
On the Truth of Thanksgiving and the Practice of Gratitude
Tomorrow in the United States is Thanksgiving Day, a holiday that brings mixed feelings. For most of my life, Thanksgiving was my favorite holiday. I was born on Thanksgiving Day, so that’s part of it. But I loved this holiday because it was about gathering with loved...
How to Find Inner Peace and Freedom
A Simple Somatic Practice to Uncover Your Innate Wisdom One of the things I love about the work I do is I get to hold space for others and listen deeply to them. And in that space, I witness, again and again, the miracle of people finding their inner peace and...
How to Regain Your Balance in Challenging Times
I’ve been thinking about balance and imbalance. We just passed the equinox when the day and night are of almost equal length all over the planet. And we entered the sign of Libra, symbolized by the scales. At the same time, the world is so topsy-turvy right now, so...
Making the Most of Your Life
My friend Curt died a couple of weeks ago. I learned about it on Facebook and was stunned. Curt was a heart-centered, caring soul and helped me in many ways over the years. He was a person I could trust to be honest, authentic, and to listen deeply. He could also be...
Need Creative Inspiration? Go for a Walk
One of the times I am most creative is when I have spent an hour or so working on a creative project, and then I go for a walk. On the walk, ideas tend to start pouring in. I think this is because I have already engaged deeply with the project. I have connected with...
6 Uplifting, Inspiring, and Informative Podcasts
I am late to the party when it comes to podcasts. For years, people would recommend them, and I would think, “I don’t have time for that.” But lately I’ve discovered good ways to fit them into my week and the benefits of listening. I've discovered the joy of podcasts....
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