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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.

Secrets of Successful Writers – Free Teleseminar

Pat Charpentier is calling all Scribblers:

Register now for an informative and inspiring, and might I add, FREE, teleseminar titled Secrets of Successful Writers scheduled at two convenient times: Monday, March 23rd at 7:00 p.m. EDT and Wednesday, March 25th at 1:00 p.m. EDT. (This teleseminar was previously scheduled for today, March 9th.)

In this teleseminar, we’ll look at attitudes and habits of successful writers, how to overcome obstacles that block your success, and maybe, even get insider information from a couple of successful writers. Walk away from this teleseminar knowing you can succeed as a writer. You can accomplish your goals. You can be proud of your efforts.

To register, simply follow this link: Secrets of Successful Writers, enter the required information, choose the day/time you want to participate, and click on Submit. That’s how easy it is.

I look forward to talking with you and being a small part of your success as a writer.

Patricia Charpentier

Writing Your Life

www.writingyourlife.org

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Bookmark It to add Plot Twist to Traditional Pub(lisher) Crawl

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On Sunday, March 29th from 1-4pm Bookmark It invites you to join us for a fun and informative PUB* Crawl (*Publisher) as we serve up a distinguished and varied panel of publishers and authors to answer your book publishing questions.   Learn what publishing style suits you and your book, get an overview of the many options available to our writing community, and meet other authors who have travelled along the same path.

 

Presenting publishers include:

 

Matt Peters, Course Director at Full Sail University, self-publishing expert, and Publisher of Beating Windward Publications

 

Ryan Rivas, Publisher of Burrow Press  and host of Functionally Literate Radio a weekly program on WPRK.org (91.5 radio).

 

Jocelyn Bartkevicius, Editor of The Florida Review.

 

Joan Leggitt, Founding Editor of Twisted Road Publications.

 

Romi Gutierrez, Marketing Manager for University Press of Florida

 

Following the presentations, crawl from PUB* to PUB* for intimate round-table discussions with publishing representatives and professional writers who will each share their unique publishing experiences: Christina Benjamin (self publishing), Vanessa Blakeslee (independent and traditional press), Rick Kilby (university press), and Darlyn Finch Kuhn (independent press).

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Additionally, to help you take those first steps toward publishing, our terrific event sponsors (publicists, graphic designers, workshop facilitators, and editors) will be available, too.

A nominal $5 fee includes a handout listing contact information for local publishing professionals, presenter notes, and a self-publishing guide.  An assortment of titles by represented publishers and authors will also be available for purchase.

 

AND although this isn’t your average pub-crawl – don’t worry!  Txokos will be serving  $2 mimosas before the event. So, join us in the courtyard from noon-12:45 for a happy hour to get those creative juices flowing!

 

Event information recap:

 

Date:                      Sunday, March 29

Location:              East End Market – Upstairs in APEX meeting hall

2301 Corrine Drive, Orlando, FL 32803

Time:                      1pm-4pm (with casual happy hour prior in courtyard from 12-12:45pm)

Cost:                      $5/pp for event attendance and take-home information packet

 

 

See below for more information re: our participating publishers: (link to online)

 

Beating Windward Publications is an independent publisher of novels, short story collections and non-fiction.

 

Burrow Press is a non-profit, indie publisher literary fiction and creative nonfiction in print and online.  They, along with the children’s literacy program Page15,  are operate under the 501(3)c Urban Think Foundation.

 

The Florida Review is the national literary journal published twice per year at University of Central Florida with the artistic mission to publish the best, most eclectic fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry, and graphic narrative by new, emerging, and established writers.

 

Twisted Road Publications actively seeks the voices of marginalized groups and individuals—partial to the writer who possesses a gift for compassionate, sharp-eyed truth telling, rendering fully formed characters and stories that get under the skin, but are under-represented by corporate marketing.

 

As the official publisher for the State University System, the University Press of Florida (UPF) publishes books on Florida history, landscape, Middle Eastern studies, Latin American studies, dance, literature, anthropology and more.

 

For additional information on event or for author information, please contact Kim@bookmarkitorlando.com

http://bookmarkitorlando.com/events/

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