The Blog For Real-Life Heroines

The Gift of a Story

In Ireland, stories do more than entertain. They connect us to the land, the unseen world, and something within ourselves we may have forgotten.

Driving across the Sheepscot River Bridge in Wiscasset, Maine, a few days before leaving for my second journey to Ireland, I noti...

 Creativity Is Always There

Last weekend, I was teaching a lesson on Julia Cameron’s Morning Pages from her classic book The Artist’s Way. I was at The Inn in Bath — Kelly Pallito’s beautiful bed & breakfast in Bath, Maine’s historic district — with eight remarkable women who had come together to l...

 Could You Do It?

Could you leave the familiar behind and choose to live on the very edge of the natural world you love — on that fragile, ever-shifting boundary between land and sea — in a 600-square-foot home near Popham Beach? Could you stay through a bitter Maine winter, bearing witness to wha...

We Are the Heroines of Our Own Stories

What delivers a Call to a Heroine — and more importantly, what allows her to actually hear it? So many Calls come to us unnoticed, brushed aside in the busyness of life. And then, when one finally breaks through, what compels her to follow it — even when follo...

We Are the Heroines of Our Own Stories

Every Heroine’s Journey begins with an ordinary day—and then, suddenly, the world tilts. A surprising invitation. A line you can’t un-hear. A moment that asks you to choose between what’s familiar and what’s true. Dory Cote’s story is a breathtaking example of...

We Are the Heroines of Our Own Stories

In December, we announced the winners of our 3^rd Annual Heroine’s Writing Contest. We gathered at The Inn at Bath to celebrate and had our first-prize winner, Ellen Webster from Hoboken, N.J., on Zoom to witness the event. Can I just say, it’s so much fun to a...

Here We Are At The End Of Another Year

I have a little gift to tuck under the metaphorical tree for you. This post is my way of saying thank you for stopping by, reading along, and walking this heroine’s path with me.

I am endlessly grateful that you make time for these blogs and for the conversat...

Welcome to the fifth annual weHeroines Holiday Gift Guide—our favorite tradition of celebrating women with gifts that feel intentional, meaningful, and full of heart. And this year, you won’t find a single Amazon link here. We’ve curated this guide with care, championing small businesses, makers, an...

Announcing the 3rd Annual Heroine’s Writing Contest!

“This is not the time for a single hero’s voice to rise above the rest.
It’s the moment for many voices—real, raw, and radiant—to tell the stories that awaken us all.”
— Inspired by Transformational Speaking, Gail Larsen

“May you choose to ris

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Why I’m Creating In Her Words

On November 8, I’ll be standing in a circle of women at 317 Main Community Music Center in Yarmouth, Maine, listening to stories. Not stories from books or movies, but the living, breathing stories of real women.

I’ve Been Asked More Than Once: Why This Conference? Wh...

Are You Hearing A Call To Make A Change?

Moyers: …we’re not going on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves.

 

Campbell: But in doing that, you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.

 

–Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers The Power of Myth

 

Feminine wounds are ...

Fear and the Power of Story: Toothless, Hiccup, Dragons, Me and You

“The idea that we’re “wired for story” is more than a catchy phrase. Neuroeconomist Paul Zak has found that hearing a story—a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end—causes our brains to release cortisol and oxytocin. These c

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