By Carol Grannick on June 29, 2010
If you’re going through a difficult time with your writing or your life, you may find that positive emotions of joy, interest, and inspiration are available in the restorative experience of re-reading a favorite book.
Posted in Learned Resilience: How To Do It, Lessons From Life | Tagged Kerry Madden, writing life
By Carol Grannick on June 22, 2010
The Irrepressible Writer is a hunter-gatherer. Because positive emotions come and go, and because they are “lighter” than negative emotions, I’m always searching.
A good writing conference is invaluable for positivity-creating experiences, and I had the good fortune to attend the magnificent Illinois-SCBWI Words In The Woods 2010 retreat/conference this past weekend.
You can read about [...]
Posted in Lessons From Life | Tagged Words In The Woods, Writers Conference
By Carol Grannick on June 15, 2010
For most of us, positivity does not come naturally, and even if it does, it takes hard work to hold on to it.
Why? Because for most of us, creating and maintaining positive thoughts and emotions requires thinking. And when our brains are cluttered with worries, self-doubt, internal and external expectations, and more, it’s hard to [...]
Posted in Learned Resilience: How To Do It | Tagged Dr. Barbara Fredrickson, positivity
By Carol Grannick on June 8, 2010
I’m not one to recommend or partake in food as a way to increase positive emotion, unless I happen to be hungry and the food is nourishing and delicious.
But yesterday a soft-serve ice cream cone brought me unexpected and to-be-savored moments during a difficult time. My husband, a chocolate milkshake lover, said he was heading [...]
Posted in Lessons From Life | Tagged positivity
By Carol Grannick on June 1, 2010
As usual, Bob Herbert’s column in the Tuesday, June 1 New York Times is an expression of my thoughts and emotions. I find myself deeply distracted from my work by the state of the world.
And yet I will write today – enter revisions into my netbook (a recent purchase that caused an influx of positive [...]
Posted in Lessons From Life | Tagged Bob Herbert, learned helplessness, New York Times
