Caroline Allen
For more than two decades I’ve been honing the scheduling around my creative practice. And I’ve been helping book clients and others do the same. As a novelist, visual artist, and coach, I’ve had to learn the magic of transition from helping others to working on my craft. I’ve had to figure out the best schedule for my creative energies on a daily, monthly, seasonal, and annual basis. And as is the…
I grew up in rural Missouri with conservative parents. Almost every lesson I learned as a girl (knitting, sewing, cooking, cleaning) was how to run a household and how to support a man.I wanted out.I wanted to find own way.I wanted a real voice.First, I had to reach escape velocity.Once I did, once I was out, I was left alone. It was fine to do my own thing, as long as…
Painting by Caroline Allen. I was at the beach at Nehalem Bay in Oregon a few months ago. A 5-year-old girl was doing the worm in the sand, her mother standing nearby. "Is that the worm?" I asked her. "Yes!" She wormed some more. She jumped up and ran up to me and my dog Atlas. I held his leash tight. He's twice her size and weight, and I was worried…
Clearing the Residue of Past Lives Can Help You Own Your Creative PowerI am lounging in a lush green recliner in an office near Greenlake, Seattle, a narrow pillow over my eyes. Urban mystic Judith Laxer has one hand on my ankle. In the other hand she's shaking a small gourd rattle. Her eyes are closed. Every once in a while she opens them to write notes on a pad. Photo by Estee Janssens,…
Excited to announce that my fourth novel, WATER, has won an Indie Publisher Gold Medal for Visionary Fiction. Pearl Swinton is drowning in a dark night of the soul. In the depths, she hears a cry to purpose, but to what? A former journalist who has spent years trying to outrun her psychic visions, Pearl meets a mentor in an urban mystic named Rayne, who introduces her to the concept of…
As a coach, I'm seeing more and more people going through a spiritual awakening. Here I explore the signs, symptoms, and solutions to dealing with such an awakening, using my own experiences. My journey is detailed in my fourth novel, WATER. Even though it's part of a series, the book can be read as a stand-alone novel. You can get a copy here. 1. Sudden openingNot all but many people going through a…
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…
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…
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