Suggestions for Making Your Dreams Come True

Coaching, Real Life, ObservationsJena SchwartzJanuary 25, 2023Coaching, career counselor, Career, dreamsComment

When I Tell You It's Tomorrow {New Poem}

PoetryJena SchwartzJune 2, 2019Poetry, dive into poetry, Eden, Genesis, Creation, Grief, Freedom, poem, dreams, dream interpretationComment

Perimenopause and Passover: Letting Go of What's Extra

Isn't it funny how the thing we were so scared of can become our new normal, and then at some point, we will once again feel the winds changing and have to calmly reach for some kind of inner compass?

Real LifeJena SchwartzApril 18, 2019perimenopause, aging, depression, intuition, self-employment, self-care, marriage, dreams, trust, anxiety, PassoverComment

What happens when we listen to our truth?

The slightest fissure -- a hairline fracture in a massive piece of rock -- that is the place in a piece of writing where the whole story might break wide open.

Baby Steps Towards a Book

What I want, more than anything, is to feel connected to myself and to others. To find form for what lives in me and yearns for a worldly shape. Stories, for me, and yes, books, are one of those recognizable shapes — a way of literally holding, and offering to others, one’s lived experience — and also of letting it go.

Creative ProcessJena SchwartzJanuary 12, 2019writing, author, dreams, fear, self doubt, coaching clients, marathon, pulitzer prize, jewish, b'nai mitzvah, synagogue, rabbiComment

Surfing Ocean and Sky: Mary Oliver and Synchronicity

I sit with this for a moment, tears in my eyes. I feel the impulse to deflect it, to say something funny or self-deprecating. But I don’t. I take it in. And then I thank her and say, “I need you, too.”

Bigger, Better, Different

So I wrote and kept writing. I worked and loved and read books to myself and read books to my kids. I wrote about them, I wrote about showing up. I wrote about depression and the layers and the falling apart.

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