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Informational or personal experience posts on health and illness topics such as COPD, self-care, and others areas of interest to the author, Lynette M. Burrows or her readers.

Last-Minute Ways to Protect Your Creativity & Holiday Cheer

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if you’re a procrastinator like me, you have no plan for the holidays and are winging it. Here are 4 ways to be creative and enjoy the holidays.

Published December 22, 2025
Categorized as Creativity, Holidays, Inspiration and Motivation, Self-care Tagged creativity, Lynette M. Burrows, winter holidays

Powerful Ways You Can Have an Overflowing Thankful Jar

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Gratitude isn’t just for Thanksgiving Day. Build your gratitude muscle in just 2 minutes a day. See how a little thanks can transform your life.

Published November 24, 2025
Categorized as Gratitude, Health, Holidays Tagged Gratitude Jar, Inspirations, Lynette M. Burrows, Thanksgiving Day

5 Ways to Support Your Creativity

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Feeling Overwhelmed? Overstimulated? Anxious? Can’t focus on your creative work? These 5 (plus one) ideas may help you reset and support your creativity.

Published October 13, 2025
Categorized as Creativity, Empowerment, Inspiration and Motivation Tagged creativity, encouragement, success

The Emotional Toll of Writing Dark Fiction

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I created characters I thought couldn’t exist in America—then watched them appear on the news. How to keep writing when reality feels dystopian.

Published September 29, 2025
Categorized as About My Books, And When I Wake, Dystopian, My Writing Journey, Science Fiction, Self-care, Writing Life Tagged Author Lynette M Burrows, writing life

Make the Scary Parts Less Scary

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What makes something less scary? In this two part article, Lynette discusses how we can use science to modify and use fear so you feel like you can handle it.

Published September 22, 2025
Categorized as Creativity, Empowerment, Health, Inspiration and Motivation, Science Fact, Self-care Tagged Lynette M. Burrows

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