Sometimes the Universe gives you a clear message you’re on the right path. Like having a TV interview fall into your lap. Sometimes, though, the Universe also likes to throw obstacles in your way, perhaps to make sure you’re really committed. That’s me in the photo above, on the set of Colorful Journey of Success…
Category Archives: Melissa’s Journal
Weekly Review #15: A day late and a dollar short
So how’m I doing in my quest to re-invent my life, follow my evolving Blisses and create the life I really, really want? All work and no play makes Melissa a dull girl. Although it’s after midnight on what is now Monday morning, and I’m finally sitting down to write what was supposed to be…
A former bulimic looks back to focus forward
Whenever I teach beginning calligraphy students, I tell them to keep their practice sheets, write the date on them and tuck them away in a drawer. Then down the road, when the frustrated novice calligraphers are convinced (as they inevitably will be) that their skills are going backwards, they can pull out those early attempts…
The view from inside the fire pit
So here’s the thing: sometimes everything feels like it’s going swimmingly. Life is pretty balanced (even if precariously), and you’re sailing along pretty much in alignment with who you really are. You feel hopeful! Anything is possible! Life is good! Other times, not so much. You know those times: when the computer is not functioning….
Weekly Review #14: Swingin’ in the trees, and the long drop down
So how am I doing in my quest to re-invent my life, follow my evolving Blisses and create the life I really, really want? Usually posted on Saturday, Review #14 is a couple of days late because I was far away from internet access all last week. Read on… Imagine that you have a ticket…
Weekly Review #13: a headless chicken, and 5 ways to tame it
So how am I doing in my quest to re-invent my life, follow my evolving Blisses and create the life I really, really want? Honestly, this week I feel like the proverbial chicken with its head cut off: so much to do, and very limited time to do it in. Tomorrow morning I head into…
Weekly Review #12: broken commitments, and 50 years of marriage
So how am I doing in my quest to re-invent my life, follow my evolving Blisses and create the life I really, really want? Broken commitments It’s been a week of disruptions from “normal” life, so it’s a bit harder than usual to take stock. And you may have noticed that my originally-on-Fridays-and-now-usually-on-Saturdays Review is…
Weekly Review #8: Things are starting to gel
So how am I doing in my quest to re-invent my life, follow my evolving Blisses and create the life I really, really want? Well, it’s been just over three months since some personal crises sent me into creative free-fall, and exactly two months since I started this blog. This week it felt like things…
Big internal changes require big external changes
There’s Melissa the artist and calligrapher. There’s Melissa the singer/songwriter. There’s Melissa the writer/blogger. There’s Melissa the teacher/coach. (Notice how even my individual identities are multiples!) For much too long I’ve separated out these various “selves” (and their sub-identities and offshoots). It’s time to consolidate and integrate.
Your Bliss is your responsibility—don’t shut it off!
When I got divorced, one of the things that got me out of bed in the morning was knowing that tonight (or the next night, or the next) I was going out dancing. Dance was my first love. I’d been on a career track as a modern dancer, and only stopped when forced by an…
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When Melissa offered coaching, I jumped at the chance. I gained such HUGE insights! Each time I came up with a reason that I couldn't, she came up with a way that I could. In the end, she gave me an assignment, a realistic and doable one.I'm happy to say that not only was my creativity jumpstarted, but that the love and the joy of creativity is back.
- Sandi Wedemeier, psychic, coach and newly joyful creative, Wit and Wisdom Transformational Coaching
Melissa... has an innate way of not just seeing and creating options for clients, but sparking the creativity you already have within you to come up with your own solutions. Our time flew by... I left inspired and ready to take action.
- Susan Finch, Creative Guide to Life
In my time with Melissa, I was re-energized, admitted to the things I need to stop doing, found the things I want to be doing and was given easy actionable steps to get me back in the creative swing of things. Simply amazing! She is full of energy and wonderful ideas.
-Delisa Carnegie, The Creativity Rebellion
I absolutely love your daily butt-kicking inspiration. It really pushes my creative button --- makes my socks roll up & down!
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-Sally, Sally Penley Calligraphics
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