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“I’m sick of it.” We’ve all said it. And many of us end up allowing that to become our mantra at some point in our lives when we feel stuck and powerless to change. It becomes the battle cry during rough periods in our career. Or while we’re in a rocky relationship. Or when weRead more

  Oh Thanksgiving. What a special time of year. So much to be grateful for and a beautiful holiday to reconnect with family. Utterly American. And it may be even more dynamic this year. Dynamic = tempestuous, nerve-wracking, maddening, stress-inducing and just plain messy. Passing the stuffing to Aunt Edna ”“ as she vocally gushesRead more

We all want to expand. It’s our nature to do so. But in order to do that, we have to move beyond our comfort zones which are put into place so that we don’t. Because expansion = change. And change, as we all know, is scary. So we shrink back into our safety net ofRead more

Oh, the mind. It provides so many reprieves from daily living. It allows us to travel in our imagination to far away places. Seize an inspired idea. Write beautiful poetry and compose lyrics to a song. In its brilliance, it comes up with solutions for the problems that face humanity. Vaccines and alternative energy technology; clean water resourcesRead more

Do you ever feel as if every other actor in the world has this magic DNA to be a “star” and that you’re somewhere in this reject pile of boring blandness? Incapable inconsistency? Loser laziness? As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to discover that besides talent (which I believe everyone has equal amounts of), success and a careerRead more

The conundrum of life. We want things. Love. Money. A hot boyfriend. A wedding ring. A nice house. A TV Series. A great agent. We think the things we want will fulfill for us the spaces in our heart that desire connection and fulfillment and joy and creation and love. And at one level they do, but atRead more

You can do it. You know how to do it. You are doing it. What keeps you from doing it fully are two sticky myths about creating that are hard to shake. 1). The “greats” are greater than you. We’re all human. We’re all talented and capable and brave and scared and strong and weak. The problemRead more

Actors. Give yourself a break. Just for once. What if you tried that? No one does it all by themselves. Ever. It’s bullshit to think that you have to. It’s fiction. Let that myth go. Why is it in this profession actors get scared thinking that if they can’t produce something on their own (meaning, get toRead more

The Search. That’s what we’re all here for. Generally, it begins when “bad” things happen to us, or our lives are turned upside down, or we’re faced with a number of setbacks or challenges that make us go looking. Or instead, drink cases of wine! The search for meaning in an existence at it’s core level thatRead more

Gord Downie, the lead singer of the Canadian rock band Tragically Hip really lived up to the adage “the show must go” on this past week. He has terminal brain cancer. He performed what may be his last concert of his life last weekend. I wasn’t there ”“ but the accounts I’ve read ”“ and a studentRead more