Creative Musings

Honouring the Most Important Women and Influences in my Life
Sarah Furuya Sarah Furuya

Honouring the Most Important Women and Influences in my Life

Yesterday was International Women’s Day and we will have read post after post about surrounding ourselves with ‘certain types’ of women, celebrating the successes they have reached from other successful women and citing authors, executives and professionals (including coaches!) And lavishing in the women they admire. OF COURSE - these women are fascinating! But we are surrounded by women all the time; holding cloths over escalator handrails, chipping chewing gum off pavements, sweeping hair of salon floors. Not to mention we are surrounded by women who are masking their depression, anxiety, addictions, menopause symptoms, menstrual issues, wild frustrations, or good old fashioned tiredness and exhaustion….

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How did you get here? - A writing prompt
Sarah Furuya Sarah Furuya

How did you get here? - A writing prompt

Make a list of all the doors that you went through to get to where you are sitting or standing now? You can go as far back in your personal history as you choose for this, and the doors can be as physical, metaphysical, metaphorical as you choose. Then choose one of these doors and write for 5 minutes about how you felt when you stood before it for the first time.

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