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Molly Mahar’s Life List
This post could also be titled “35 Things To Do Before I’m 35” or “Are you sick of Life Lists yet? I’m not” or “Universe, it’s time to start conspiring on my behalf!”.
Read More10 Things I’d Like to Learn
After a Monday where I couldn’t get off the ground and a Tuesday full of tiny minutiae that probably doesn’t matter in the scheme of things, I escaped to the ocean yesterday afternoon with a chai latte and my journal. This is one of the quickest ways for me to center back into myself —…
Read MoreWhy I Posted Naked Photos on Instagram
I saw a post on Instagram about the challenge the day it started. My friend and pleasure teacher Ev’yan Whitney was running a Sensual Selfie Challenge, and without thinking too much about it because I knew I would probably talk myself out of it — I yanked my shirt off at 3 pm in my…
Read MoreI Don’t Want to Abandon Myself Ever Again
When I read this today it stopped me in my tracks. It was posted in our Reclamation group where we’ve been having deep discussions about feeling our feelings and the places we numb. Ellenkate wrote, “Today I had the thought, ‘When I numb, I abandon myself.’ Followed by, ‘But I have to abandon myself sometimes,…
Read MoreVulnerability + Creativity Hangovers + How to Make it Through
“When you are sad or hurt by an old wound, and then ticked off because you thought you were “over it’, it’s not that you weren’t healed, but that you have a deep heart and soul and it is multi-layered. The pain is not an old incision opening, but a new layer of healing and…
Read MoreThe 21 Life Skills of The Reclaimed Woman
You are born free, wild, open, curious. Utterly yourself. Beautifully whole. Yet very few of us keep that wholeness as we pass through the journey of our lives. You learn how to please for safety or validation. You learn how to perform for inclusion or gold stars. You learn how to harden yourself to others’…
Read MoreMeeting Yourself Where You Are aka Surrender
You’ve done it. I’ve done it. We’ve all done it… Kicked + screamed + flatout ignored that change was underway or that desperation was creeping in or that love was being ignited. You weren’t ready or able or in the mood for something you couldn’t control. Yet, denying change pretty much guarantees it’s going to…
Read MoreJust because Change is Hard, Doesn’t Mean it’s Wrong
Lots of shifts going on over here because of the decisions I made about how I want to feel + who I want to be in 2018. Short version? I picked FREE as my theme word for 2018. Free from my own forms of self-sabotage (overwork, external validation of worth, alcohol). Free to claim each…
Read MoreWhat I Learned from a Weekend with Liz Gilbert + Cheryl Strayed
You may have seen this picture on my Instagram on Friday — 37th birthday trip has commenced! Hitting the road to Santa Cruz for a solo writing retreat at @1440multiversity with Elizabeth Gilbert and Cheryl Strayed!!!!! I am not excited at allllllll! Pretty much everyone responded with, “OMG! Tell me everything!” Well, that’s going to…
Read MoreBut What Will They Think?
I interviewed my good friend, Michelle Ward, about Courage last week for Reclamation. Michelle is the poster child for courage in action — chasing a life of musical theater in NYC, letting go of that dream to become a creative career coach, surviving boob cancer (twice), making tough choices about how to grow her adorable…
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