Love in the Time of Covid with guest writer and love coach, Kate Houston
Writing about love in the time of Covid! We create our realities through the lens we look at the world through. As a human being and writer, we get to reflect back on experiences through a bigger, more compassionate lens. We have the opportunity to share our hero’s journey in so many ways. Our love stories are some of the most powerful stories we can write even when we’ve been unlucky and it’s been painful. The beautiful part about being a writer is this: no matter the level of heartache we feel, we can always transmute that pain into the gift of...
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After ten months of the most severe writing resistance ever, I struggled to figure out the root cause of my writer’s block. It didn’t feel like writer’s block. It felt like my spirit was on lockdown. Between the pandemic, fires that almost destroyed my home, election depression and learning my cousin had died of Covid, I was starting to fall into the default mode of “does anything really matter?” syndrome. When I would sit down to write I would experience a combination of anxiety, depression and fear. Then I had a really terrible break up with someone I cared...
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A month ago I noticed an odd low-level depression that wouldn’t quit. It was like the whole world went gray without me noticing. It was deep in my body. From my temples to my throat and into my diaphragm and hips. It has been a hard year for sure. As SNL (Saturday Night Live) said in their news skit, “2020’s got moves”. I thought it couldn’t get any worse than isolation, my ex-boyfriend’s father dying, breaking up with said ex boyfriend after almost three years. A man I truly love (but am not compatible with). My mother being 3,000 miles away, my dog...
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