by Sarah Chauncey | Jan 13, 2025 | Creativity, Life, Memoir, Nonfiction, Resonant Storytelling, Writing
I saw a meme a few days ago that said, “It’s been a long year this week.” Sure feels that way, doesn’t it? It’s totally fine if you need to take some time away from writing to process your emotions and regroup. But for the love of all things First Amendment, please...
by Sarah Chauncey | Jan 25, 2017 | Counterintuitive Guide to Life, Creativity, LOIF, Memoir, Mindfulness, Nonfiction, Resonant Storytelling
One of the foundations of inner peace for me is realizing that I am not my thoughts. In order to do that, though—and this is pretty much the core of everything I practice and write about—I had to learn to observe my thoughts, to recognize that the thoughts exist on...
by Sarah Chauncey | Jan 9, 2015 | Creativity, Mindfulness, Resonant Storytelling
Novels, J.D. Salinger wrote, grow in the dark. By that, he meant that true creativity comes from the subconscious mind, from allowing ideas time to percolate below our conscious awareness. It’s not just novels, though, that spring forth from the subconscious mind. So...
by Sarah | Aug 4, 2014 | Creativity, Mindfulness, Resonant Storytelling, Writing
We’re all familiar with the law of diminishing returns: After a certain amount of time, the effort expended on a task yields fewer and fewer results. This is as true of creative work as it is of physical labor. And if you keep pushing, eventually both brain and body...
by Sarah | Mar 19, 2014 | Creativity, Work, Writing
(This post was originally written for Resonance Consultancy in October 2012) Multitasking is more destructive than we think. And the best antidote is a practice we perfected when we were two. We’ve been hearing for a couple of years now that multitasking can reduce...
