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You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

• Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
• Because it will help you focus your own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

• Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
• What topics do you think you’ll write about?
• Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
• If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.

Hello followers!  I apologize, I am terrible at keeping up with this blog.  I have improved with my social media; however, I found an amazing program called “cinch share” and every few weeks spend a few hours finding material that I hope is interesting to share and schedule them for Facebook and Instagram / twitter. Maybe I can connect this to it as well.

Anyway! Updates:

My website is finally up and running, http://www.peaceincolor.org! I had to switch servers and try to figure out technical stuff and work with their support team and wait for updates to kick in, and needless to say it took a lot longer than expected.

My office will have a new location soon!  I am moving closer to the fox valley mall to a- one level, no stairs, large group space, large office and plenty of window- building! I am super excited for this change and will post pictures after the office is ready for me to move in, with my name on the space and directory board.

I am also planning groups, my hope is for an #openstudio -no “therapy”- art as healing, maybe meet others and do art together or on your own. Offering lessons for knitting, painting or otherwise. An #anxiety or #depression 6-week group, assist with support and validation, learning coping skills together to handle stress or fatigue, the weighted down feeling of darkness. I will also be offering “lunch and learns” for other professionals who want to learn what art therapy is or to do art-therapy on their lunch hour to destress from the work week.