Find time to write no matter how busy you are
It’s hard to find time to write. When you work responsibilities, family responsibilities, friends, a dog and a laundry list of other responsibilities vying for your attention. There’s always something else calling your name, and when you finally have a moment to...
We don’t want abortion. We want autonomy.
Today’s post was originally going to be a reading list, but when I saw this from my friend April, I decided to do something different. Two years ago, when I was 18-weeks pregnant, my child was given a preliminary diagnosis of lethal skeletal dysplasia. I was...
Free downloadable coloring to relax your brain
Coloring books for adults. They’re so hot right now. (Triple points, by the way, to anyone who gets that movie reference.) They calm the amygdala which in turn helps you de-stress. Carl Jung even suggested coloring mandalas to relax. So clearly, if science and...
Morning meditation with cat/baby video
Meditation is many things. Meditation is hours of quiet yoga mudras and chanting to music as a candle burns leisurely down to a nub. Meditation is sitting cross legged on top of a mountain while the dulcet tones of trained squirrels serenade and lead me through self...
Volunteering doesn’t automatically make you a good person: THE APPENDIX
Over the last couple months, I’ve been writing a piece commissioned by Contributoria called Volunteering won’t change the world, do this instead. That’s where I go one with my opinions on volunteering. I would have loved another draft of that before...About Leigh
I'm a writer and mentor currently living in Argentina. Want to know how I created my ideal writing life?
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