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“It’s just a house! Do something with it!!”

June 25, 2017 by Janice Wilson Stridick

“It’s just a house! Do something with it!!”

  Last year, Paul and I bought the family beach house and these words from my mother's painting class keep me going. She charged her painting students with this and other pithy sayings when they were blocked. Today, the words seem prophetic. On the 15th anniversary of my mother’s death, my dear husband and I became sole owners of the Cape May house she adored. It’s a house that has served generations of our family and friends as a respite, a place of celebration, a center for art … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Historic Preservation, Alice Steer Wilson, Blog, Cape May NJ, Death of a Parent, Family Caregivers, Hoarding or Curating, Jersey Shore Renewal, Memoir, Mothers and Daughters, Women and Creativity, Women's Stories, Writing Tagged With: Alice Steer Wilson, Cape May, Emotional strength, Gratitude, Historic Preservation, memoir

Can You Keep a Woman’s Secret?

March 8, 2017 by Janice Wilson Stridick

Can You Keep a Woman’s Secret?

Self-Preservation in a Time of Misogyny: While International Women's Day honors the known as well as the unknown stories of those who have long kept a woman's secret, I believe we honor ourselves when we honor our mothers and grandmothers, ancestors, and women of all races, creeds, and eras. Therefore, I'm not content to confine this activity to one day, or one month: it is a daily practice of awareness. You may recall that the academic study of Women's History began in the 1970s, during a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Women and Creativity, Alice Steer Wilson, Artist, Blog, Forgiveness, Memoir, Mothers and Daughters, Women's History Month, Women's Stories

3 Ways to Play Your Edge in 2017

December 31, 2016 by Janice Wilson Stridick

3 Ways to Play Your Edge in 2017

If you pay attention to patterns, you know that clinging to that which fails to love you back is toxic;  you must play your edge if you want to love your life. When Carrie Fisher wrote Postcards from the Edge, she was playing her edge for all to see. Fisher shared a difficult mother-daughter journey that illuminated the path for others. She died suddenly on Tuesday, and the following day her mother died of heartbreak. Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher gave an object lesson in how to play … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Alice Steer Wilson, Mothers and Daughters, Women and Creativity, Women's Stories, Writing

Does Generosity Cost You?

December 17, 2016 by Janice Wilson Stridick

Does Generosity Cost You?

If generosity is a good trait, why does it get tangled up in angst and confusion at this time of year? How can you maintain inner peace in a season of relentless advertising, competitive shopping and expensive gift-giving? I have been mulling over this question since we focused on the week six theme of generosity with my Mother-Daughter Way ONE goddesses last month. It was easier to manage week 6 during the pilot group last January when I tagged the focus as a week of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alice Steer Wilson, Blog, Death of a Parent, Family Caregivers, Mothers and Daughters, Peace, Women and Creativity, Women's Stories, Writing

Spring Lilies Evoke Energy of Gratitude

May 21, 2016 by Janice Wilson Stridick

Spring Lilies Evoke Energy of Gratitude

When my father planted the secret garden of our alley with spring lilies in 1994, he couldn’t have imagined the lasting energy of gratitude those simple bulbs would evoke over the years. They bloomed so brightly, so shamelessly, so vibrantly the following spring that my mother was compelled to paint them in their glory. And now, decades later, “Spring Lilies” has become one of her most beloved paintings of all the genres and all the moments she memorialized in her work which spanned fifty … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Artist, Cape May NJ, Mothers and Daughters, Women and Creativity Tagged With: Alice Steer Wilson, Cape May, Energy, Gratitude, Spring

Guided Self-Discovery Can Be Sublime

March 14, 2016 by Janice Wilson Stridick

Guided Self-Discovery Can Be Sublime

The Mother-Daughter Way LIVE weekend was a celebration of shared self-discovery. On the sign-in book, I see these comments: "A warming of the heart," "Wonderful sharing and fellowship," "Beginning to really enjoy life," "Sharing with others is very healing," and "an opening of the heart in remembrance of Mom." Although our event began on a snowy afternoon chronicled by local photographers, we offered a warm welcome at "Ocean Alice's." Our off-site host, the Victorian Motel also rolled out the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Mothers and Daughters, Women and Creativity, Women's Stories, Women's Wisdom, Writing Tagged With: Janice Wilson Stridick, Mother-Daughter Way, open to possibilities

Transcendence in the Mother-Daughter Way

March 2, 2016 by Janice Wilson Stridick

Transcendence in the Mother-Daughter Way

    For the final week of the Mother-Daughter Way, we focus on transcendence. What does that mean in everyday terms? When my mother asked me to sit for this portrait, I resisted. I was busy. She was dying. I imagined having yet another unfinished portrait to remind me of the ways we couldn't sign off on each other. However, I agreed on the condition that I could write while she painted. I loved watching the way she rallied when she picked up a brush. As I recorded her … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alice Steer Wilson, Blog, Mothers and Daughters, Women and Creativity, Women's Stories, Writing Tagged With: Alice Steer Wilson, Janice Wilson Stridick, The Mother-Daughter Way

Nurture Your Blessed Autonomy

February 25, 2016 by Janice Wilson Stridick

Nurture Your Blessed Autonomy

For the 11th week of the Mother-Daughter Way, we are nurturing a blessed autonomy. In this photograph, my grandmother reads her memoir and shares her vision of more than 90 years on this planet. She was sure that the world outside of her small apartment would receive her words, and that they would live on. It was a lesson she showed me, and I love passing it on to you this week. She knew she was the author of her life story. To nurture your blessed autonomy, this week's body/mind focus is a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir, Women and Creativity, Women's Wisdom Tagged With: Autonomy, Margery Wells Steer, Mother-Daughter Way

Envy Opens the Mother-Daughter Connection

January 28, 2016 by Janice Wilson Stridick

Envy Opens the Mother-Daughter Connection

  Connection is the focus of this, the 7th week of the Mother-Daughter Way journey. My connection to my mother, Alice Steer Wilson, fifteen years after her death, is one of imagination and memory. I lead this part of the journey with a renewed sense of the relevance of the program mission, which is to open up the process of self-mothering the way you wish you could be mothered, or in the case of a difficult daughter, the way you wish you could open up that connection using the MOM … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alice Steer Wilson, Blog, Mothers and Daughters, Women and Creativity, Women's Stories, Writing Tagged With: Alice Steer Wilson, Connection, Envy, Facebook, Janice Wilson Stridick, memoir, MOM Fix, Mother-Daughter Way, perfectionism

MOM Fix III: M is for Mercy

December 18, 2015 by Janice Wilson Stridick

MOM Fix III: M is for Mercy

Even when I was an angry teenager, long before my mother and I forged our way back to forgiveness of each other and ourselves, we shared a love of the colors of nature. I was grateful for the beauty of the roses my father grew in our garden, and when I picked a few and gave them to my mother, she expanded the gift by creating the painting above. Later, when I prepared to move across the country, she gave me the painting as a memento. The 3rd profound shift to lighten and reframe the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Alice Steer Wilson, Artist, Mothers and Daughters, Women and Creativity, Women's Stories Tagged With: Alice Steer Wilson, Janice Wilson Stridick, MOM Fix, The Mother-Daughter Way

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