{"id":1516,"date":"2016-01-18T07:23:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T14:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/ahappymedium\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2016-01-18T07:26:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T14:26:16","slug":"soul-renovations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/ahappymedium\/2016\/01\/soul-renovations\/","title":{"rendered":"Soul Renovations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"taketime\"<\/a>For the past week I\u2019ve been holed up in my house in an attempt to complete several looming writing projects. Fireplace on, fuzzy blanket and laptop in place, snow softly falling and cats napping around me. Although it may perfect, I haven\u2019t felt inspired in any sense of the word. When in spare moments I felt a creative nudge, I would re-look at it and decide it was awful, curse and have a mini inner fit. I have, however, during this time, spent hours staring at a blank screen (I called this meditating whenever my husband came into the room) and watched an awful lot of Property Brothers and Fixer Upper on HGTV (of which I tried to say was creative research, but seeing as I am not writing about renovations, it just didn\u2019t\u00a0fly). I also have been nursing a horrible migraine, of which I\u2019m sure staring at a bright blank computer screen or a bright television screen, along with the stress of staring at the bright blank computer screen aided in headache. There\u2019s always sensibilities when you really look. So as I\u00a0avoided<\/del>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0worked on my manuscript with Chip and Joanne Gaines fixing old houses on the television, it hit me that my soul was in need of some renovations as well. Not a huge overhaul, just some TLC. I glanced over at my VISION BOARD and re-read some of the words and quotes I carefully chose to focus on for 2016:<\/span><\/p>\n