by Leesa Renée | Feb 19, 2018 | Personal
“The only time I feel lonely as a single person is when I come to church.” I expressed those words to my pastor. He was facilitating a discussion around the advantages and disadvantages around being a single person in the church. The room was filled with a...
by Leesa Renée | Jan 3, 2018 | Inner Field Trip
There are 11 lessons I learned writing half a million words over 365 consecutive days. Before I tell you what they are, indulge me as I share one of my favourite “jobs.” I’ve played the organ at 150 funerals over the past three years. Let’s...
by Leesa Renée | Oct 11, 2017 | Inner Field Trip
UPDATE (2023 February 2): Five years after writing this blog post, I wrote some reflections on the BIGGEST lesson I learned. My body of work has matured and shifted since writing this post, e.g. I no longer call myself an expressive writing coach and the weekly...
by Leesa Renée | Oct 9, 2017 | News
A friend posted an article from the Independent entitled Dove regrets its racist Facebook advert. Well, that got my attention. Here’s a small clip of the ad: [easyembed field=”video-dove”] After reading the article, I started perusing the comments....
by Leesa Renée | Sep 21, 2017 | Privilege & Power
I sat in a free breakfast seminar the other morning. I was in the back of the room watching a man, a perceived expert in book marketing, go through his book self-publishing book “manifesto.” He spent the first 90-minutes telling us how bad it is out there in the...
