Caroline Allen
So the Earth has a chance to be a somebody Photo by Debby Hudson The prevailing wisdom on social media is: Go Big or Go Home. More followers, more power, more sales. More. More. More. Take. Take. Take. I’m an “expert” they yell from memes and quotes. Follow me! Follow me! What if instead of being big, we go small. What if going small is truly the way to go home?…
How do we heal our relationship with money? I'm not just talking about making more money or acquiring more possessions? I'm talking about healing our integrity with money. I'm talking about healing our relationship with the earth. In my most recently released fourth novel, WATER, I wrote a scene about a woman in a pub burning money. She does this as a joke, as an experiment to see how others will…
Wed, 14 Oct 2020 17:43:46 +0000 Originally Published in Blue Lyra Review, Feb. 2015 The greatest gift I ever received was a book I never read. The winter I turned eleven, I sat at the desk in the dormer window, waiting. We got the desk at a yard sale, and it was supposed to be for all seven of us kids, but somehow I’d taken it over. In the basement, I…
Thu, 03 Dec 2020 16:49:53 +0000 7 a.m. Dreams swirl around me as I roll out of bed. My dreams are a pivotal part of my creative life, informing my art, novel writing, coaching. They sink in and come out of my hands or through my voice in mysterious ways. For me, the night time is as rich as anything I do during the day. 7:45 a.m. At my desk writing…
Tue, 13 Oct 2020 17:36:13 +0000 WATER ranked No. 1 in Spiritual Healing and other categories in the Kindle Store. ART IS OUR ACTIVISM Pandemic, death of a friend, wildfires, elections -- let nothing stop you in the pursuit of your creative purpose. Art is activism! In the past few months, like everyone else globally, I’ve been sideswiped by the pandemic. Being isolated from friends, the lack of external entertainment, the…
Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:07:37 +0000 Follow protagonist Pearl as she travels the world in search of self and purpose. CarolineAllen.com.
Fri, 04 Dec 2020 17:38:46 +0000 Years ago, a journalist friend in Seattle came over to my apartment. She’d just returned from Afghanistan, where she was responsible for setting up a newsroom and training local journalists. When she arrived, she was so exhausted and drained to her very core, she could barely walk or talk. I knew the feeling. I’d given up journalism a few years earlier because it had sucked…
Tue, 05 Jun 2018 19:32:34 +0000 What is Revolution of Voice? Many of us are being called now to find our authentic selves. As with the #MeToo movement, and with people of all races standing up and speaking their truth, we're seeing an outward expression of this revolution. As an artist and coach, I'm intrigued with the inner transformation, those times when we're called to "find ourselves" outside society's restrictive…
Mon, 12 Oct 2020 21:53:46 +0000 September 8, 2020 3 p.m. I’m sitting at my desk in my home office working on a client project. Outside the window, fat dramatic of burnt orange and deep purple float on the horizon. Earlier I’d been outside filming the shift from blue sky to lavender and burnt citrus cloud cover. It looks beautiful and scary and other-worldly. I’m not overly worried. We’ve had this…