Welcome to Hedria's blog!

In our journey through life we make goals and reach milestones. Fortunately in these past years I have reached many of my personal and professional goals. I am among the lucky ones who love their work; it is both my vocation and my avocation.

My passion for the seminar and speaking business has afforded me the opportunity to travel and work on five continents. The world of Creativity has inspired me and allowed me to change my life.

My reasons for starting this blog include my desire to share my experiences and ideas about Creativity and how to use it consciously to enrich our lives and to continue learning by connecting with others ... with you!?!

I have recently reached one goal that has been in the background for many years - to publish my journal as a book. When I first started my consulting business I was so busy establishing myself I had no time for activities that weren't business related. But there was someone, my husband Paul (who passed away two months after I received my masters degree in Creativity), who "heard" it all. I wrote to him constantly. My journal, along with my reflections and guidance on the tools I used on that journey, became my book: Square One at 51: What I did the day after I buried my life.

I journaled in the form of letters to Paul, because I had to talk to him. He had been there for me since I was fifteen years old, and I could not be without him. I missed him terribly, painfully. This was my way of keeping him near me, and at the same time giving me the strength to move on.

I needed to share my ideas and thoughts and success and failures and pleasures and pain with him. I needed Paul and the closest I could get to him was my computer. So I wrote and wrote and cried and cried and laughed and shared and problem-solved and challenged myself and grew.

It took fifteen years to get here, a place where I could look back and say, "It is time to publish the journal. I have enough distance. I'm in a different place, and ready to share what I experienced when Paul died. I can now reflect from afar on what I was doing, and see how I did it."

Two years ago I designed a seminar and a keynote speech called Navigating Change (click here for a sample video of Navigating Change). Both reflected my process of moving from grief to success. But only recently could I face the actual words I wrote at the time of Paul's death and share them, first with my children - and now with you - through my Dear Paul letters (you can read sample pages from the journal here).

It was a very sad, painful, funny, thought provoking, enlightening, and then transforming experience. Square One at 51 goes from total shock to a new beginning. As I developed, my special mottos emerged:

"It doesn't get better, it gets different,"
"Change is constant, Growth is optional,"
"Slow down, accomplish more"

I pushed myself to grow professionally and personally by creating then accepting new challenges.

Thank you to all my colleagues, clients, and friends (both those I know and those not yet met) for your help on this journey. Our journeys are ongoing and this blog begins another path along the way.

Creatively yours,

Hedria

Comments

[Stephanie Belhomme]

Thank you Hedria. You can't begin to imagine what your presence, your appearance in my present tense field of view is doing for my heart(soul), mind(spirit), and physique right now.

First, as a guest lecturer in our class yesterday evening, and then this morning through exploring your webpage/blog....the encounter has amped my clarity for determining and committing to my next steps.

My focus having become a little burdend, hazy....etc. was almost at its potential for feeling/becoming overwhelmed. However, in seeing all that you've done and how you are evolving still....it's helping me keep things in perspective. This potential for being overwhelmed is being tempered by all that is just around the corner...just within reach...if I continue to "live the process"...yet at a new level then when & where I was at the beginning (last September 2006, and the middle (June-Aug 2007).

Happy Wednesday!
Stephanie Belhomme

[Hedria Lunken]

Hi Stephanie,

It was a pleasure meeting you and interacting with your class last night. It reminded me of when I was a student and had the excitement and trepidation of all that was ahead.

Remember, the journey is as important as the destination.

Best of luck in your exciting journey!

Creatively yours, Hedria

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