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Bridging the Worlds of Fiction Writing and Dream Building: An Author’s Life Lessons

May 11, 2019Categories Clarity, Coaching, Creative Confidence, Creative Habits, Creative Vision, Dream, Mentorship, WritingTags #creativity, #lifelessons, #singyoursong, authentic-creativity, author, clarity, coaching, create on purpose, dream, dream builder, Empowered Way, inner guidance system, inspiration, intuition, multipotentialite, visionLeave a comment

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Sandra Gulland certainly touched both the writer and the transformation coach in me. At the 2019 San Miguel Writers’ Conference, I attended a keynote address given by the American-born Canadian historical novelist. Gulland is the international best-selling author of the Josephine B. trilogy inspired by the life of Josephine Bonaparte, as well as other works … Continue reading “Bridging the Worlds of Fiction Writing and Dream Building: An Author’s Life Lessons”

Dream Your Dream, Sing Your Song

April 2, 2019Categories Coaching, Creative Vision, Dream, Mentorship, WritingTags #confidence, Be Who You Are, clarity, dream, dream builder, Inner Child, intuition, Live Your Vision, Love What You Do, Robin Blackburn McBride, Sing Your Song, Transformational Life CoachLeave a comment

Inside each one of us is an inner child who knows well why we are here and what we are about. The dreams we have in sleep are portals to that child, part of an ever-active inner guidance system that points us to our highest good. In this blog I share with you a recent … Continue reading “Dream Your Dream, Sing Your Song”

On New Beginnings

January 9, 2019Categories Clarity, Coaching, Creative Vision, Poetry, WritingTags Commit to it, Journalling, Law of Sacrifice, New Beginnings, Poetry, unique calling, Your VisionLeave a comment

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My thoughts, and a quoted passage that I love, for the start of a brand new year. Two keys for bringing your new vision into form: WRITE DOWN YOUR DREAMS! Write your grand ideas and passions, your goals and your plans, and keep these love letters to your Future Self safely stored IN A JOURNAL. … Continue reading “On New Beginnings”

The Stranger at the Door

December 19, 2018Categories Creative Vision, Dream, WritingTags #creativity, author, childhood memory, christmas story, courage over fear, dream, Empowered Way, family history, gifts, healing, inner child spirit, inner guidance system, intuition, miracles, spiritual, trust2 Comments

In December of 1938, a young woman returned home from the Plummer Hospital in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, with her two young children in tow. At twilight, the girl and boy played, oblivious to their mother’s agitated state as she moved through their snug rooms picking up toys, preparing supper, clearing a space at the … Continue reading “The Stranger at the Door”

On The Shining Fragments Book Launch

October 27, 2018Categories Creative Vision, The Shining Fragments, WritingTags #gratitude, acknowledging helpers, author, authoring fiction, human connection, humility, journey of connection, master teacher, mentorship, multipotentialite, navigating obstacles, quest, story of the shining fragments, the helper and the artist, the story beyond the book, vision, writing a novelLeave a comment

The Shining Fragments Book Launch-At the Art house cafe ottawa

It is a myth that a novelist works entirely alone. While it is true that in visioning and authoring a book, certain hours must be solo, if anything, the process leads to greater human connection. As I wrote The Shining Fragments, again and again the journey of knowing the story’s central character, Joseph Conlon, and his … Continue reading “On The Shining Fragments Book Launch”

Confidence: Navigate Fear & Use this Technique to Help You Make Up Your Mind

March 7, 2019Categories Coaching, Confidence, Creative Confidence, Dream, WritingTags #confidence, believing in you, building confidence, decision, Dialoguing, do it afraid, dream, dream builder, Empowered Way, forward momentum, How to become confident, Journal, keep going, life choices, overcome procrastination, paradigm busting, shine your light, stop being stuck, take action, What about fearLeave a comment

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In the words of French philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, you and I can think of ourselves as “spiritual beings on a human journey”. We navigate a world of duality. We know a thing by knowing its opposite. We know light by knowing dark. We know up by knowing down. This is the Law of … Continue reading “Confidence: Navigate Fear & Use this Technique to Help You Make Up Your Mind”

Some Thoughts on My Nana’s 102nd Birthday

September 5, 2018Categories WritingTags centenarian, family, heart, love, loyalty, memoir, nana, passages, spiritual2 Comments

I feel deeply blessed to have just celebrated my Nana’s third birthday as a centenarian. It is a privilege to be in the presence of one who has come so far through time. Here she is with her father, circa 1922, beside their house on Oxford Street in London, Ontario. The last of three children, … Continue reading “Some Thoughts on My Nana’s 102nd Birthday”

Cerulean

July 20, 2018Categories Dream, Poetry, WritingTags Active Dreaming, cerulean, dream, poem, Robert Moss, visionLeave a comment

Poem by Robin Blackburn McBride What is this feather disguised as ordinary brown and fallen by the table meant for setting visions down I almost didn’t pick it up and turn it in my hand to see that trick of light the way things land iridescent with the change of angle Like … Continue reading “Cerulean”

The Story Beyond the Book

June 27, 2018Categories Birdlight, Creative Vision, WritingTags #storyofbirdlight, authentic-creativity, author, birdlight, dream, havefaithinyourself, inspiration, liveswelllived, trustLeave a comment

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“Build your faith in yourself, in whatever you conceive to be your creative source, and in the complete and perfect unfolding of your life.” – Birdlight: Freeing Your Authentic Creativity I stand by this message, which is as much a note to self as to anyone else. As I completed this book a little over … Continue reading “The Story Beyond the Book”

Sing Your Song!

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