These are the Five Books that Changed My Life and showed me how to bring authentic creativity to my clients and myself!  

I was raised by sadists or at least they seemed like sadists. The sexist, Roman Catholic sadists! Are there any other kinds? Of course there are, I know, I know! Please don't write me about the other kinds of sadists. But, I’m sure you will agree: how we were raised, the messages that we grew up hearing over and over, the good and the horrible, affected us.

I recommend Steve Pressfield's The War of Art to all my clients and students who want to authorize their creative life and use writing as their vehicle.

All people who write usually recommend that would-be writers should "write what you know best." So, in this forum, I decided to talk about what normally stops me from writing--the dreaded notion that it won't amount to anything worthy of publication. I'd be a great mom, I know. Can you imagine saying to your own toddler, "Don't bother crawling, you'll probably never become an olympic athlete"?