Category: Semi-Charmed Life

Hey, everyone! Lately, because things have been stressful, I’ve being doing a lot of journaling. It’s sort of a cross between a spiritual exercise and therapy for me, and coming up with my own journal ideas helps me not obsess too much on the news. I thought I’d share some of my mindfulness journal prompts with you. I love journaling

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I feel embarrassed writing about this, but if you can’t be honest in your blog, where can you be, right? I’ve always had some workaholic symptoms, like many writers with full-time jobs, and I’ve written about work/life balance before. But in the past almost-three years, I became a full-blown workaholic. Some people describe themselves this way as a brag. I

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Hi, friends! I’ve written before about how well positive thoughts work for me…and about how I have a hard time with positive self-talk, like most people do! So if you’re looking for how to think positive, these are some fun and silly—okay, straight-up cheesy—ways to do it. Even though these self-compliments are tongue-in-cheek, and you may roll your eyes a

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A few weeks back, I spent some time on online forums where high school students were talking about applying to colleges. It was research for a very short scene in The Equinox Stone (and I am always guilty of over-researching in my writing.) I was really struck by how these kids seemed to think their future prospects and their whole

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Hi, friends! I’ve written before about how I always have a movie of the month. In September, my movie was Dead Poets Society, which made me nostalgic for my undergraduate days. It’s funny that the movie had that effect on me, though. For the most part, the boarding school in the movie is a place of conformity, restriction, and heavy-handed (literally)

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