You are a mom who enjoys reading non-fiction and now wants to write your own. The challenge is you will have to write somewhere in between rushing your kids to school and waiting for them in the car pick-up lane. On a good day, your emotional book-ends may include self-doubt, brain fog, anxiety, stress, a short fuse, and exhaustion. A big fear that you face is that you are at risk of getting into survival mode and staying there. You could find yourself stuck staring or weeping at a blank page for days, months, years, or decades. However, who has the time? You want to share your expertise and stories with readers in this lifetime; your book can’t wait for when the kids leave home.
You also won’t get your book done if you wait for that perfect month-long book-writing retreat others have gloated about. Instead, you need to write, parent, and keep things moving while protecting your mental, spiritual, physical, emotional, and creative health. You are a mom; you yearn for a kind of unimaginable wellness that can and will take you to the finish line without losing your marbles. You seek mindfulness practices moms can fit into their lives, journaling exercises that draw out raw and real insights that can get you writing like a mad woman, and ideas on immersive experiences to help you unleash your overall well-being so that you can push out the greatest story of your life. Sounds good? Then keep listening.
If this is you then pick from any of 100+ episodes to learn from mental health, mindfulness, wellness experts, entrepreneurs, psychologists, writers, and moms who decided to safeguard their well-being during intense life moments through wellness practices that you too as a mom can apply, so you can write your non-fiction book and retain the kind of unimaginable wellness that goes beyond your imagination.
Each week, author, podcaster, mom to three school-age sons Melissa Llarena helps aspiring non-fiction writing moms feel mentally capable of writing and mothering every day. In this podcast, you will learn how to mentally prepare for the wacky non-fiction-writing journey that moms uniquely face, have the vitality and energy to create your own momentum, find creative and practical ways to feel calm amidst chaos, and stay physically fit so that you can bounce back from any word document file corruption tantrums.
Learn from psychologists (Thomas Hills), nutritionists (Dr. Joel Fuhrman), healers/seekers (Marshall Dunn), writers (Lisa Messenger, James Altucher), multi-passionates (Beth Comstock, Gabriele Corcos), mental health advocates (Joe Williams, Jason Partington), artists (Max Mendez, Suzy Batiz), creators (GaryVee, David Meltzer), and intellectuals/thinkers (Jordan Harbinger, Cal Fussman) and Melissa.
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