Jo Malby

inspireportal.com — 9 Ways to Make Peace with the Inner Critic-No matter if your creative confidence sings from rooftops or hides in the darkest garret, rise above the rantings of your critical voice and make peace with your inner critic with these techniques.

The Mighty — Chronic pain changes everything in life, most entirely invisible to outsiders. Many people do not seem to understand chronic pain or just how extensive its effects are, how exhausting always being in pain is, how displacing and uncertain, nor how hard that pain makes it to concentrate and think.

inspireportal.com — Daily habits and creative routines help you connect with your creativity, lure latent inspiration to the surface, and give cues to your mind and brain to slip into work-mode. Your motivation too can be renewed each day because the act and discipline of working in a way optimal to your unique and glorious person, always enhances creativity, and thus your ability to show up and do the work.

princessinthetower.org — A toolkit of ways to calm and quell anxiety when you live in chronic pain When you have chronic pain it's natural to feel anxious, especially when that pain is severe, unpredictable, and as a consequence, your life so filled with uncertainty and fears.

The Mighty — September is Pain Awareness Month, a time for people with chronic pain conditions to inform their communities, medical professionals and government leaders of the challenges that affect their health and well-being. We teamed up with the US Pain Foundation to ask our Facebook communities what they want people to learn about chronic pain. Their answers cover the range of issues the community is fighting for and reveal what’s at stake — their quality of life.

inspireportal.com — Every writer has days where they feel a little deflated, distracted or depleted of wonder - especially when working on a project as grand as a novel. With short fiction too, it's natural for this ebb and flow.

thewritelife.com — Just as an artist wouldn't be able to rework a blank canvas, a writer cannot edit a blank page. Making mistakes is part of the process; don't smother your creativity out of fear and doubt. Everyone has ebbs and flows in their creativity… Be flexible in your approach to writing, maintaining an awareness of where you are going and the flexibility of thought to follow wherever your creative process takes you, unencumbered by resistance or doubt.

HuffPost — As someone living with systemic Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) and other chronic illnesses, I know first-hand what it means to live in chronic pain. Waking each day with the first thought being the pain ― how severe it is, and whether or not I will be able to do as planned, no matter how necessary or crucial ― requires such unseen strength.

inspireportal.com — Plato said that 'music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything,' while Nietzsche believed that a "life without music is a mistake." Much like writing, it can transport us to a different time and place in an instant.

princessinthetower.org — When you live in pain you already have to deal with so much disappointment and heartache, doing what you love should become priority. Yet so frequently, and often understandably, those with chronic pain and illness let go of the very pleasures they once adored, whether through necessity - physical a

Vine Leaves Literary Journal — HER HANDS and SHE WAS A HOUSE by Jo Malby, Vine Leaves Literary Journal Issue 12 by Vine Leaves Literary Journal on Issuu.

inspireportal.com — A consistent meditation practice infuses and informs everything life, offering you a creative freedom quite unmatched by any other practice. Through stilling your mind and relocating your centre, in as little as five minutes a day, meditation offers a plethora of benefits to both your life and creativity.

inspireportal.com — It's natural to want to know where your story is headed or at the very least, know that you are not wasting your time - especially on something as grand as the first draft of a novel - but it's not always easy to relinquish control and let the act of writing itself discover your story.

Syndicated Mail on Sunday — Boost your IQ naturally; Some simple techniques to improve your brain-power, help you think more clearly and sharpen up your memory. (Health) by Sunday Mail; Daily Record & Mail (Glasgow, Scotland); also B Magazine Australia, Flying Colours magazine, South Africa.