The VS Journal

“Good daily habits lead to good days, good weeks, good years.” – Becky Hammon Overthinking is fertilized by inaction. It threatens to choke our seeds, robbing them of potential. The time we spend questioning ourselves and worrying about things that are out of our control is better spent in your garden of creativity. No action […]

“If a goal is worth having, it’s worth blocking out the time in your day-to-day life necessary to achieve it.”  —Jill Koenig Setting a goal inherently means that achieving it will not happen in an instant. Just like seeds take time to bear fruit, reaching a new goal requires exploring new growth. This is why […]

“Never underestimate the importance of the beginning. Of anything. The beginning has the seeds of everything else to come.” – Carolyn Coman The cozy personal time we spent with ourselves over the winter has sharpened our intuition as we take our first steps into the season of action. Spring beckons us to choose our seeds, […]

“That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity.  So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone,  to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.” -Meredith Monk Welcome, Virtuosas, to Week 7 of our Winter Reflections journal event! We are looking to the future now and all of the hope she […]

Be a good steward of your gifts.  Protect your time.  Feed your inner life. -Jane Kenyon Living life according to the seasons has been the loveliest and easiest way to visualize our own inner ecosystem. Creative women only ever know a rich inner world, one where our inherent gifts are the catalyst for an abundance […]

What is that little voice saying about you right now? She may be telling you that you’re wasting time and should be doing something more productive. Maybe she has something to say about your hair or outfit.  That voice is such a %!$?#. Like what is she even talking about? As women, the lifelong fight […]

“A seed knows how to wait… a seed is alive while it waits.”  — Hope Jahren For our Winter Journaling event this week, we are taking one final journal session to reflect on the previous year. We invite you to take a quiet moment to yourself and truly show gratitude to the woman you were […]

What does it really mean to tend to the soil in your metaphorical garden? It’s exactly the same as your real garden, except instead of dirt under your fingernails, digging it up can leave you with unresolved emotions. When it comes time to plant seeds of inspiration and creative aspirations in the Spring, we will […]

A look to the future, a reflection on the past, and a prompt for the present. Winter’s full splendor is doing what she does best: driving us to tuck ourselves away for hibernation. We are ready to sit down with our Elevate journals to reflect on one full year of living alongside the seasons and how it helped us […]

Martha Graham in Lamentation No.3 by Herta Moselsio, Date Unknown. Source: Library of Congress The earth is quiet and we follow suit in peaceful harmony. The birds have gone and the bees are sleeping, while all signs of life from our gardens have long since nourished us in return for tending their growth all year. […]