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You know how sometimes you are ready to pop – to leave the old stuck encrusted place and get your love going? I coach ready-to-pop people and last week I coached Lisa Sonora Beam and she is popping and flying and you can benefit.

Introducing her Creative Entrepreneur Strategy Sessions

You want a systematic, doable, step-by-step plan to develop a very healthy relationship with your creative process and your business, so you can follow your bliss? Hello! Of course you do.

Lisa, I’m dancing with you!

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Thanks to Claire for this:

I read the phrase “Satisfaction Finder and I’ve never read anything which resonated more!  I love it!  It’s so simple, and it’s where its grace lies – little by little, small step by small step.  Thank you Jen, for reminding us that we are “enough”!

And Vicki,  your Comfort Cafe post made me grin and grin,

I’m already am beginning to feel happier.  I don’t have to do it all, and I certainly don’t have to do it all right now!!  That realization was HUGE for me.  Thank you, Jen!”

It’s only been two weeks and the kit is flying out the door – 121 sold as of 5/25/10 – but you know what really makes me hop and twirl and leap around my studio? Your life is no longer spilling away while you fret about what is enough or what to choose or how to feel good about what you are doing!

I talked to a coaching client yesterday who bought the bonus package (I think there is one session left) and she had all these great insights from reading The Satisfaction Finder, and we spent the hour working on her freedom to want what she wants, to do the things that get her excited, for the love of it.

Her courage and insight and resolve took my breath away.

In the end, that’s the coolest thing about knowing how to find satisfaction –  you get to declare happiness for yourself.

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Havi is my guest teacher again this year The Luscious, Nurturing Get Your Writing Done While Laughing Your Butt Off and Maybe Crying a little Too Writer’s Retreat which is the best thing ever. I love doing Shiva Nata with her and her wisdom brings an extra lovely shine of learning and permission to the retreat.

Havi’s doing this sweet small thing, opening her own yoga studio, in Portland, OR. She needs help. So get some of her groovy stuff so she can get a floor installed so I can drive down and do Shiva Nata with her and then hang out with Mark and Charlie and maybe finally meet Chris and Jolie, then go down to Salem and hug Naseem.

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Speaking of Naseem, she has written the best novel I have read in years. It is the perfect book club book, the perfect book to read with your family this summer - oh my god, read this with your family – that would be so brilliant! She is my new friend and I love her. But her writing? It will change you so deeply and call you out of the cave of your heart to love even more.

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Pace and Kyeli are hosting this incredibly well organized, deeply amazing World Changing Writing Workshop with the wisest bloggers and writers teaching… and me. If you write, you must check it out.

What’s your wiry fankle? Tell me what’s up in your world, what you are excited about, I’d love to hear!

I believe we can get to a place where we can let go of anger, fear and other negative emotions, where we are more like the Tibetan monk Matthieu Ricard writes about in Happiness then say, OJ. Simpson. The monk spent twenty-five years in Chinese labor camps where he was brought to the brink of death many times. Now free, he visited the Dalai Lama who was deeply moved by his serenity. He asked if the monk had ever been afraid during his long imprisonment and the monk answered, “I was often afraid of hating my torturer, for in doing so I would have destroyed myself.”

Gulp.

When I think about where I am far too often and where that monk is, I feel pretty friggin humble. What I do is whine too much. “Why is this happening to me?” flits through my mind far too often. I think it’s only me who has gas before her first improv class, a mouse who apparently climbed inside her fridge motor and did not live to tell the tale (oh the puns are coming now) and who wonders five times an hour what she’s doing with her life. This trait of mine is getting some love and relief by using this phrase from Radiant Mind by Peter Fenner: “I suffer, yes, but this doesn’t mean that anything is fundamentally wrong.”

When we think we are the only ones or that we are being picked on or why me, oh my gosh, we make it so much worse.

I’ll fart my way through improv tonight and maybe make a joke out of it.

More self-love resources I love:

This post from Havi from which I’m going to devise an exercise for my upcoming class in

Portland that is going to be really freeing and moving and useful, too.

For self-employed gals and guys I love Molly’s work.

And David’s is for everybody everywhere forever.

My sweetheart Bob who is so good at smiling at me when I rant and saying nothing.
Smart man.