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Leslie C. Halpern

Leslie Halpern

Just when I think I’ve got Leslie Halpern figured out, she surprises me. And that’s only one of the things I like about her!

She’s crazy about films, and knowledgeable, too, as her books Reel Romance and Dreams on Film show. She’s also interested in what makes people successful, as her book Passionate About Their Work, and her role as co-facilitator of a Law of Attraction Meet-up Group demonstrate.

Halpern reviews books and movies for various publications, and is an entertainment journalist. The list of folks she’s interviewed and written about sounds like an overview of People magazine for the past few decades.

As a member of the Poetry Ensemble of Orlando and the Florida State Poets Association, she’s quite a poet, too. Her latest surprise has come in this arena, in the form of a collaboration with artist Oral Nussbaum on their Funny Children’s Poems book series. What child could resist titles like Rub, Scrub, Clean the Tub; Shakes, Cakes, Frosted Flakes, or Frogs, Hogs, Puppy Dogs?

Halpern reviewed my first poetry collection, Red Wax Rose, for Suite 101, and here’s what she had to say about my forthcoming novel, Sewing Holes:

“In Sewing Holes, Darlyn Finch Kuhn presents a Southern girl’s experiences with family, friends, and faith in an intimate little story with universal appeal. Eloquently expressed, yet easily accessible, this touching coming-of-age masterpiece speaks to the emotional artist within each of us, weaving pieces of our past into something beautiful for the future.”

~ Leslie C. Halpern

Author of Passionate About Their Work, Reel Romance, and Dreams on Film

Thanks a million, Leslie!

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Marianne Kirby and Sandra Gail Lambert featured at Wordier Than Thou TONIGHT!

Marianne Kirby

Sandra Gail Lambert, author of The River’s Memory, will be featured at 7 p.m. on March 18th at Stardust Video and Coffee in Winter Park for Wordier Than Thou, along with Marianne Kirby.

The River’s Memory is a SIBA best-seller.

Sandra Gail Lambert’s fiction and memoir have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies including New Letters, The Weekly Rumpus, Arts & Letters and The North American Review. Excerpts of her debut novel have won prizes from Big Fiction Magazine and the Saints and Sinners Short Fiction Contest. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, a home base for kayak trips to her beloved rivers and coastal marshes.

Marianne Kirby blogs at The Rotund. Check it out!

 

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Tapping The Inner Critic Out of Your Head: Using EFT to Energize Creativity

 

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Saturday, March 28, LifeArt Studio offers a powerful creativity “nudge” for you.   Heidi Behr, LCSW, of Feel Peace Now, will join Lezlie Laws to present a technique that many have found useful for disarming the beliefs and counter-intentions that hold creative potential hostage. We hold unexamined assumptions about what is possible for us. We act as if change is difficult, even impossible. And when these destructive habits of mind become entrenched, we don’t have access to the innate abilities we have to express ourselves in happy, lively, creatively satisfying ways.

EFT, or emotional freedom technique, is a simple process of gently tapping meridian points on the head, shoulders, and hands to release emotional “locks.” When you first see it being done you can’t help laughing, or thinking it’s silly. You might wonder how can something so seemingly simple release negative beliefs? But Heidi Behr is the expert who will explain exactly how it works, and you’ll try it out for yourself to see how it feels within your own body and mind.

We’ll begin this workshop by first coaxing those pesky inner critics into the open. You have to know what negative beliefs you’re walking around with before you can start releasing them! And then, Heidi will show you how to skillfully begin to usher those critics right out of your head so that you really do have the hope, the energy, and the will to begin to live more creatively and happily.

I know, I know. It sounds too easy, doesn’t it? But maybe that very skepticism is one of those entrenched negative beliefs that keeps us from exploring happier, more productive, or more creative aspects of ourselves. After all, if we believe making such a shift is mysterious, impossible, overwhelming, or just too hard to do, it’s just easier not to try making a shift at all. Right?

Let’s banish that belief. Come and spend a few hours with us, learn a new creativity hack, and accept a loving nudge from us to drop an old thought pattern and take up one that makes your life happier, more creative, more intentional. It’s possible.

And here’s the deal hinted at in the title of this post: For the next 48 hours we are running a “tapping” special on this workshop. If you sign up with 48 hours of receiving this email, you can bring a friend for free.  How cool is that?  All you need to do is email me to place a reservation for this person. This will reduce the cost of the workshop by 50%! It’s a March Madness deal!

Thanks for stopping by LifeArt Studio today. I hope you will join me and Heidi Behr on Saturday, March 28, for “Tapping the Inner Critic Out of Your Head.” You can find registration information here.