Setting intentions rather than resolutions at the start of a new year is a powerful and impactful approach to personal growth.

Hope and connection are a powerful salve to the state of the world. And so are intentional practices on days when a seasonal cycle change. This blog post includes a writing prompt that will help connect you to someone who has died on the annual Day of the Dead.

If you can clear the time in your schedule, a writing retreat will sprinkle magic onto whatever project you are working on. Not only is it a respite from life’s other responsibilities but it gives you a chance to focus for longer chunks of time and also to have the spaciousness to think in bigger picture terms.