Writing takes time, effort, research, digging through memories, skill, emotion, and, possibly, even a little bit of your soul. Use your writing for self-care.

Ellen Buikema shares methods to help pull oneself out of a stress tailspin and examines the relationship between stress and creativity.

During those weeks when you're juggling a lot of commitments, especially for writing parents whose kids are out of school, writing-life balance is freaking hard to achieve. I got some perspective from a very unexpected source recently. I got my epiphany at work. One of my day job hats is adult education with a group of accountants. […]