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

Spitting Out the Patriarchy

I’m here to remind myself — and maybe you reading — that what I’m doing here counts. It will change and grow and deepen and evolve, yes, but it is also, already, real. The tyranny of always getting somewhere else? It’s a racket.

Resistance, CommunityJena SchwartzOctober 18, 2017writing, writer, entrepreneur, author, mary oliver, business, self help, retreat, travel, patriarchy, self doubt, friendship, listening, creativityComment

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