If you’re feeling a bit low, watch these amazing set of videos by wonderfully inspirational Big Leaper Nick Hull Malham. He is currently battling cancer for a third time but instead of choosing to wallow in fear, he created a website and now a series of videos to inspire. http://www.youtube.com/laughingwithcancer#p/u/4/AFjAzzeBXCs Suzy x P.S Do come to our Big [...]
Continue reading...30. May 2010
I attended the fabulous launch party of Winning Words website, the brainchild of Big Leaper Michelle Teasdale on Thursday at the scarily funky Miss Q’s in Earl’s Court. The Winning Words website is a directory of magazine deadlines and creative writing prizes, and a forum where members can get feedback on their work before submitting. Brilliant [...]
Continue reading...30. May 2010
“Adventures don’t begin until you get into the forest. That first step is an act of faith.” Mickey Hart, Grateful Dead Drummer In week 12, we were recovering faith. Faith to step into the proverbial forest and to have that adventure. In week 12, we are being encouraged to ‘follow our bliss’ as the mythologist Joseph Campbell [...]
Continue reading...24. May 2010
I love what Sue says about the train that takes to destination ‘zone’. Love this, Sue! Guest blogger Sue Thomason on week 11: “The kind of autonomy that Julia’s asking us to connect with in Week 11 is what sports psychologists call being in the zone. And what a wonderful place it is to be – it’s [...]
Continue reading...21. May 2010
Totally inspired tonight. Just come back from the opening of Big Leaping Natalie Turner’s exhibition: eternal spirit of the chainless mind. It was inspiring, amazing, beautiful. Just like Natalie, really. Having suffered from severe depression since childhood, Nathalie’s work has been inspired by her recent road to recovery. Adopted at eleven, Turner grew up within the British [...]
Continue reading...18. May 2010
I’ve just launched my Big Leap free video series today as a warm up to The Big Leap Challenge in June: 21 Days to write a book?? 21 days to find an agent? 21 days to create a film? (that’s what I’m going to do. I just had the idea today and already got two professional [...]
Continue reading...10. May 2010
I shared Jan’s surprise at reading my morning pages and finding that they weren’t as negative as I thought they’d be. Thank you for this great post, Jan: Jan says: “Strange, I never used to have a problem getting my homework done, but that was a [very!] long time ago. OK, here goes. I’m writing this [...]
Continue reading...6. May 2010
Nicola Vincent says about her week 8 experiences with volcanos setting the pace: “Beware what you wish for…” somebody wise once said and, in the most extreme case of synchronicity I’ve ever experienced, I’ve found this to be true over the last fortnight. Let me explain… Week Eight deals with another creative block: time. Somehow I never seem [...]
Continue reading...23. April 2010
I love this week’s guest blog from Sue Thomason. She says: “When I answered Suzy’s request for guest bloggers I didn’t know that the action of writing this would be so relevant to Week 7 itself. I promised to have the copy in by Friday and read through Week 7 and then I sat down to [...]
Continue reading...17. April 2010
We have two guest bloggers this week. Big Thanks to Marilyn Henderson and Deb MacCaulay for stepping up in Week 6 and blogging their review of week 6: Week 6 – the Artists Way Recovering a sense of abundance. Guest blog by Marilyn Henderson This week has been full of tantrums and tears (mostly in the morning [...]
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19. July 2010
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