Comments on: Afraid to Blog http://www.comfortqueen.com/afraid-to-blog Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:13:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jennifer Boire http://www.comfortqueen.com/afraid-to-blog/comment-page-1#comment-43 Jennifer Boire Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:13:08 +0000 http://www.comfortqueen.com/_wp/afraid-to-blog/#comment-43 Dear Jennifer, Am glad to come across your blog (while scrolling through Kripalu's offerings); was at Kripalu in April & bought your Women's Retreat Book, and organized my first mini-retreat. Just wanted to tell you that my week at Taos 2 years ago, I didn't know where I was headed or which project would call to me. So I started a blog, and now have 3! I have a women's circle that supports me (some came to my retreat); and have stopped thinking of myself solely as a "poet" or "mother", two things I'm grieving and letting go (teens don't want smothering). I am definitely on a quest, hence the blog title. And find it ironic that 2 years after I spent a week with you and Suzanne, I ran across your book and it was perfect, exactly what I needed. Hope you'll keep blogging, in spite of the fear; your honest expression encourages me to keep coming back to what my heart desires to do and say. I want to get out and work with women, too, and get out of my hermit writer mode into sharing with other women mode. Creating mini-retreats with others incorporates play, artwork, a bit of theatre, dance, spontaneity, rest, all those things we need in mid-life to reinvent ourselves. Have also ordered Carla's candles to give to my circle of women this past Thursday at our pot-luck, so the spirit of Taos is alive and well. love to you, in your giddy excited new love time, jenn Dear Jennifer,
Am glad to come across your blog (while scrolling through Kripalu’s offerings); was at Kripalu in April & bought your Women’s Retreat Book, and organized my first mini-retreat. Just wanted to tell you that my week at Taos 2 years ago, I didn’t know where I was headed or which project would call to me. So I started a blog, and now have 3! I have a women’s circle that supports me (some came to my retreat); and have stopped thinking of myself solely as a “poet” or “mother”, two things I’m grieving and letting go (teens don’t want smothering). I am definitely on a quest, hence the blog title. And find it ironic that 2 years after I spent a week with you and Suzanne, I ran across your book and it was perfect, exactly what I needed.
Hope you’ll keep blogging, in spite of the fear; your honest expression encourages me to keep coming back to what my heart desires to do and say. I want to get out and work with women, too, and get out of my hermit writer mode into sharing with other women mode. Creating mini-retreats with others incorporates play, artwork, a bit of theatre, dance, spontaneity, rest, all those things we need in mid-life to reinvent ourselves. Have also ordered Carla’s candles to give to my circle of women this past Thursday at our pot-luck, so the spirit of Taos is alive and well.
love to you, in your giddy excited new love time,
jenn

]]> By: Wendy Strader http://www.comfortqueen.com/afraid-to-blog/comment-page-1#comment-42 Wendy Strader Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:01:13 +0000 http://www.comfortqueen.com/_wp/afraid-to-blog/#comment-42 I know EXACTLY how you were/are feeling. It is a place that I stand in myself. And for that same reason, I started a blog. Mine was too join creative challenge sites so that i would have a nudge at my creativity. But there seems to be so much standing in my way of doing just that. Me. Like so many other people, I am again starting over. In the past year I have lost my father, lost a realationship of 10 years, had my daughter, her husband, and grandson move in with me, had a second grandbaby join the family, watched my daughters was-band walk away from the 3 of them, started a new job, new relationship, and had to move my daughter and grandbabies to my other daughters' home because I couldn't support all of us. I am starting over, I nearly lost everything before I asked for help. And now, I don't know what to do now. Slowly but surely, I am reclaiming my life. I am taking one shaky step at a time. Jennifer, I am reading Comfort Queen for the second time, as one of the ways I am reclaiming my life. Your words of wisdom have touched my heart again. I am honored to shared this path of renewal with you. Thank you for your courage and willingness to share the journey. Wendy I know EXACTLY how you were/are feeling. It is a place that I stand in myself. And for that same reason, I started a blog. Mine was too join creative challenge sites so that i would have a nudge at my creativity. But there seems to be so much standing in my way of doing just that. Me.
Like so many other people, I am again starting over. In the past year I have lost my father, lost a realationship of 10 years, had my daughter, her husband, and grandson move in with me, had a second grandbaby join the family, watched my daughters was-band walk away from the 3 of them, started a new job, new relationship, and had to move my daughter and grandbabies to my other daughters’ home because I couldn’t support all of us.
I am starting over, I nearly lost everything before I asked for help. And now, I don’t know what to do now.
Slowly but surely, I am reclaiming my life. I am taking one shaky step at a time.
Jennifer, I am reading Comfort Queen for the second time, as one of the ways I am reclaiming my life. Your words of wisdom have touched my heart again. I am honored to shared this path of renewal with you.

Thank you for your courage and willingness to share the journey.

Wendy

]]> By: Tara http://www.comfortqueen.com/afraid-to-blog/comment-page-1#comment-41 Tara Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:38:04 +0000 http://www.comfortqueen.com/_wp/afraid-to-blog/#comment-41 Hey Jen, I was so happy to hear that you missed blogging! I've missed reading about your creative adventures and trials so much. I too go a long time between posts, and I try not to care too much because at this point in my life it's more for me and my own writing practice than any reader. But today I quadrupled my readership for some crazy reason...:) Thanks for the mention in your newsletter. I often wonder where that CQ book has traveled.... I look forward to reading more about your new life! Cheers, Tara Hey Jen,

I was so happy to hear that you missed blogging! I’ve missed reading about your creative adventures and trials so much. I too go a long time between posts, and I try not to care too much because at this point in my life it’s more for me and my own writing practice than any reader. But today I quadrupled my readership for some crazy reason…:) Thanks for the mention in your newsletter. I often wonder where that CQ book has traveled…. I look forward to reading more about your new life!
Cheers,
Tara

]]> By: Lisa http://www.comfortqueen.com/afraid-to-blog/comment-page-1#comment-40 Lisa Thu, 22 May 2008 16:55:04 +0000 http://www.comfortqueen.com/_wp/afraid-to-blog/#comment-40 Welcome Back, Jen! I just finished reading your latest newsletter and then came over here to your blog and was happy to see a new post and read your words on love, art and angst. You continue to inspire us to be real. Just look at all these women who've already written and shared some yummygoodness! It's wonderful to hear you've fallen...mmmmadly in love is a beautiful thing. (: In the spirit of asking ourselves good questions when we're stuck, I wanted to share a quote with you that I just read this morning... "And what is the price of my Divine Instruction? What could I ask of you?" ~Hafiz, 'I Heard God Laughing' I send you much love & laughter! Lisa Welcome Back, Jen!

I just finished reading your latest newsletter and then came over here to your blog and was happy to see a new post and read your words on love, art and angst. You continue to inspire us to be real. Just look at all these women who’ve already written and shared some yummygoodness! It’s wonderful to hear you’ve fallen…mmmmadly in love is a beautiful thing. (:

In the spirit of asking ourselves good questions when we’re stuck, I wanted to share a quote with you that I just read this morning…

“And what is the price of my Divine Instruction? What could I ask of you?”
~Hafiz, ‘I Heard God Laughing’

I send you much love & laughter!
Lisa

]]> By: Gemma http://www.comfortqueen.com/afraid-to-blog/comment-page-1#comment-39 Gemma Wed, 21 May 2008 20:17:12 +0000 http://www.comfortqueen.com/_wp/afraid-to-blog/#comment-39 Karen, you're so welcome. Blessings. Karen, you’re so welcome. Blessings.

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