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Lissa M. Cowan

Lissa M. Cowan

The roads we take

Last week I ventured from my treehouse in the maples to the far reaches of Newfoundland, Canada, otherwise known as the Rock. That this…

Sep 9

The roads we take

Sep 9

Lissa M. Cowan

Critiquing misinformation doesn't make us witch hunters .

Apr 29, 2021

Apr 29, 2021

Lissa M. Cowan

Christiane Northrup, someone who I’ve followed for 20-plus years, read all her books, and who has…

This is very sad, not only because her earlier work, which I believe to be sound and helpful, is at risk of being discounted but because…

Apr 19, 2021

Apr 19, 2021

Lissa M. Cowan

How to Stop Curating Your Life and Start Living It

When I looked into the depths of the extinct geyser and saw steam rising off the top of the water, I knew I’d made the right decision to…

Oct 30, 2018

How to Stop Curating Your Life and Start Living It

Oct 30, 2018

Lissa M. Cowan

A Letter to My Niece for her Coming of Age

I promise not to be that person in your life who gasps when she sees how much you’ve grown or who tells you to watch out for boys. Or who…

Aug 8, 2018

A Letter to My Niece for her Coming of Age

Aug 8, 2018

Lissa M. Cowan

How Your Creative Pursuits Make Magic

Last summer my niece showed me a magic trick where she made her father levitate. He lay on what looked like a board covered by a sheet. A…

Jul 16, 2018

How Your Creative Pursuits Make Magic

Jul 16, 2018

Lissa M. Cowan

How to Create Authentic Characters in Your Writing

How would you feel if you were homeless?

Jul 16, 2018

How to Create Authentic Characters in Your Writing

Jul 16, 2018

Lissa M. Cowan

HOW TO LET GO AND LIVE YOUR CRAZY ASS LIFE

I sat on my bed reading the word over and over with equal amounts of terror and relief. It was in Christiane Northrup’s Women’s Bodies…

Mar 23, 2018

HOW TO LET GO AND LIVE YOUR CRAZY ASS LIFE

Mar 23, 2018

Lissa M. Cowan

21 WAYS TO FIRE UP YOUR WRITING THIS WINTER

At times, when it’s dark outside and I’m chilled and starved for a spark of something to light me up, I feel like a vampire desiring the…

Nov 27, 2017

21 WAYS TO FIRE UP YOUR WRITING THIS WINTER

Nov 27, 2017

Lissa M. Cowan

How Technology’s Stopping You From Being a Writer

My palms grew damp, my body, rigid; mind flitting this way and that as a moth between a screen and a window.

Sep 2, 2017

How Technology’s Stopping You From Being a Writer

Sep 2, 2017

Lissa M. Cowan

Lissa M. Cowan

I'm a writer and writing mentor, meditator, and mindful writer. I offer mindful writing courses over on writetocalm.com.

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