by shaunnawest | Sep 11, 2019 | Lifestyle/Travel
It was the Friday night before Ava’s tenth birthday. Keep in mind we were having a small celebration, nothing fancy, on Saturday, with our family and a few of her close friends. There would be fun pink snacks and pizza ordered, a little shopping, and a spend...
by shaunnawest | Aug 13, 2019 | Creative Business/Coaching
So interesting where life leads us. For the last few years, I’ve spent time consulting and coaching into other companies, focusing on marketing, branding, and story telling. While I have loved every single minute of it, I knew eventually I would come back to...
by shaunnawest | Aug 2, 2019 | Writing
I sit quietly in my living room, a room I wouldn’t sit in for almost a year before my marriage ended. It was like the silence of what was happening under the surface of me was too piercing in here, too deafening. Too revealed. I retreated to spending time in...
by shaunnawest | Jul 11, 2019 | Writing
There is just something about a studio. A clean, white space. Everything is fresh. Everything is new. Blank. This is the place where new things are born. I walked into Marian’s studio this week, and some of the moments within the space stopped me in my tracks. ...
by shaunnawest | Jun 20, 2019 | Writing
Every time I opened my laptop to write my first post in the last few years, I inevitably shut it, apathetic and uninterested. My world had shifted dramatically after my divorce, and for me, I had no idea how to tie it all back together again, here, in this creative...