by Samantha Wallen | Oct 27, 2016 | On Writing
Dear Brilliant Writer, Yes…you who puts words on paper because it heals you. I’ve been thinking about you and that thought you have about your writing that keeps you from sharing it. You know the one that says, “It’s not ready…not finished…not complete…not good enough...
by Samantha Wallen | Sep 29, 2016 | On Writing, Poems
I woke up to her today–the inner asylum, the cage where I hide my sacred rage at all the ways I have learned to keep myself small. It is the place I used to run to when I was a kid and got too big for the world and mistook my differences for wrong. In there, I...
by Samantha Wallen | Sep 27, 2016 | On Writing, Poems
Each time there is a crack and something breaks in, there is a gush of aliveness. I cry for what I’ve been missing and didn’t even know was gone. I am working in the subtle layers, the aspects of my subconscious mind stream that aren’t so clear, perceptible, in my...
by Samantha Wallen | Sep 26, 2016 | On Writing
Risk is a word I’ve looked up numerous times because it is a word I want to get to know better, from the inside. I know that in order to live the big, full life I want, and to feel fully alive, I have to get intimate with risk. My etymological dictionary says, “the...
by Samantha Wallen | Sep 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
Last week I was live on FB sharing the 4-Steps to Living in FLOW on and off the page. In service of really sharing what flow is all about I want to tell you about what happened after that video. When I hit the “Done” button and went off the air, I felt totally...
