I've been racking my brain for a phrase to compete with my favorite "Wellbutrin Wins," to similarly describe my experience with the anti-depressant Lexapro.Wellbutrin, an anti-depressant medication I started a year and a half ago, helped quiet

May the Odds Be Ever In Your Favor

Oct 19th, 2023 30s

Pssst.... now you can also watch the episode on YouTube !#CreatingIsHealing🦋

Medical Trauma

Oct 5th, 2023 25m 53s

Medical trauma. Suuuuuuuuuuper fun topic, right?I'm (obvi) not a doctor, and this isn't an official diagnosis. Or expert advice.This is one long-running patient who is processing the (unknown, unseen) mental health effects of repeated surgeries

Surrender Your To Do

Sep 21st, 2023 25m 54s

As a girl who lives by her to do list... I find the idea of surrender extremely uncomfortable.How am I supposed to trust that the work I am doing, the work I am putting out into the world, the people I am meeting and connecting with - that it w

Loneliness

Sep 7th, 2023 17m

Loneliness is not being seen as we are.Not being accepted for who we are.Loneliness also gets created when we feel forced to hide who we are.Art is about learning to express the full range of who we are.And - learning to withstand that not ever

The Stories We Tell About Ourselves

Aug 24th, 2023 27m 43s

As artists, we have brilliant imaginations that we put to compelling use.Those imaginations can create bright fantasies, and irresistible dramas.When we use them on ourselves, we can daydream about awards and recognition, reaching a wider audie

Time Panic

Aug 10th, 2023 20m 20s

I live in a constant state of panic of being behind. Behind in being 'discovered' as an artist.Behind in being established in my creative career.Behind in the traditional female pressures of marriage, kids, the house with the white picket fence

Cycles of Creative Rest

Jul 27th, 2023 22m 39s

Creativity is cyclical, like the seasons.We cannot produce all the time. We must make time to rest.But in a culture that prizes productivity and output above all else, how do we allow for the time and space? Thinking of rest as part of the cycl

Why Art in a Burning World ?

Jul 13th, 2023 20m 52s

We are witnessing new climate disasters every day, and it can be hard to wonder the point of creativity, of making anything, when the world around us is in such peril.But art is how we process what is happening, digest it, and find new meaning

Rage Requires Creativity

Jun 29th, 2023 21m 1s

I imagine all humans struggle with rage - there is certainly ample reason to be angry in this world.Just the act of being human requires loving people, losing people. Having your heart broken, being rejected. Getting sick, watching your body de

Celebrate the Unseen

Jun 15th, 2023 15m 42s

Fresh from the Lighthouse International Film Festival (at the Jersey beach!!), for the premiere of my short film How to Pack Up Your Life in One Day, and still dizzy from the red carpets, the phenomenal filmmakers, the profound screenings. I've

Change Your Perspective

Mar 17th, 2023 13m 25s

It can be as simple as sitting on the floor...Remember when you used to watch TV and do homework lying on your stomach, propped up on your elbows? Remember how solid the ground felt? How long your body felt? How big the room from that angle?Did

Copy the Masters (First!)

Feb 16th, 2023 17m 5s

I've been taking a screenwriting class where the main exercise has been to copy brilliant scripts that have already been made into award-winning films and TV shows.Page by page, word for word, type the exact dialogue, action lines, character de

Don't Track Against Yourself

Feb 2nd, 2023 21m 57s

When we talk about making small changes, one challenge is that it can be hard to see progress. Small wins add up to big wins - but slowly. Enter the habit tracker. A way to stay accountable to yourself on the commitments you've made. Writing. P

Driving Through A Snowstorm

Jan 19th, 2023 21m 4s

With all my recent travels, I've gotten to examine my deep anxieties about traveling, my overwhelming desire for it to be over, to have already arrived.I'm learning that the not knowing what will be, the inability to anticipate and solve proble

Little Wins for the Big Win

Jan 5th, 2023 13m 24s

Did you know that January 19 is known as Quit Day for New Year's Resolutions?Why do we do this to ourselves?Why do we continue to believe that we can make grand declarations one day that will magically transform who we are and how we live our l

Walk the Walk

Dec 15th, 2022 13m 35s

Hello my friends!!Been diving back into my TV pilot script, and took some advice from writers and filmmakers I admire that I heard a while ago - that most of the "writing" isn't actually writing, and most certainly doesn't happen at a desk.Crea

Feeling your Feelings

Dec 1st, 2022 15m 38s

Your feelings are chemical sensations rushing through your body. We often get locked in trying to analyze and argue with our thoughts, but there is another process that be incredibly healing - feeling your feelings.In this episode, I practice t

Wherever You Go, There You Are

Nov 3rd, 2022 10m 56s

The allure of travel has always been that over there, things will be better. We will have more fun; be more fun. We get to drop the burdens we carry when we travel, enamored with new places, shedding our old stories and trying on new versions o

Let Your Suckage Light the Way

Oct 20th, 2022 17m 40s

Sometimes the only thing to do in worst of times, is to share it, in hopes it helps someone, sometime, somewhere.So sharing this before I lose my nerve...Pssst.... now you can also watch the episode on YouTube !Come check out the Hot Mess serie

The Point is to Get Lost

Oct 13th, 2022 14m 48s

I've created lots of rules for adventuring for myself over the years. Try a new coffee shop a day. Taste test all the burger joints in a new town. Ways to turn the overwhelm of being in a whole new place with no anchors into a million little

Terrixcited

Oct 6th, 2022 18m 56s

I've launched on an adventure that is equal parts terrifying and exciting, so my brother and I came up with a new word for it: terrixcited.We wanted to capture how doing the absolute right next thing sometimes also leaves you shaking. I also ta

Perfectionism & Capitalism

Sep 29th, 2022 16m 17s

Been thinking a lot about what made it so hard to come back from the pause I took on this podcast... amidst many physical & mental health reasons, I also battled my perfectionism. This deep fear that nothing that wasn't perfect, scrubbed clean

Wellbutrin Wins

Sep 22nd, 2022 33m 59s

Sharing where I've been, and what it took to come back to the pod. How I've been struggling with my physical health ~ and my mental health ~ and how it took turning to a psychiatrist and asking for medication to get me back to myself.And how fi

Feeling my Indigo

Mar 3rd, 2022 23m 28s

Being extra brave today and pulling back the curtain to share how I've dipped into a depression lately. Depression is something I've struggled with since college, but weirdly, I've never identified as depressed. I've always thought of it more a