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It’s a beautiful holiday house, and we’d love to see you!

December 13, 2017 by Janice Wilson Stridick

It’s a beautiful holiday house, and we’d love to see you!

Last Friday evening, Paul and I opened the doors for our first holiday house tour to benefit the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts. Click this link for the virtual Lamplighter Tour of Ocean Alice's. It's not too late for the holiday house tour Don't worry that you missed it -- we're on a second tour Wednesday, December 27th. If you're anywhere near and would enjoy the winter sparkle of festive Cape May, get your tickets now -- they will sell out! Just click this link -- and update me, please. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alice Steer Wilson, Blog, Cape May NJ, Historic Preservation, Memoir, Peace Tagged With: #metoo, Alice Steer Wilson, Cape May, Connection, Gratitude, Historic Preservation, Janice Wilson Stridick, memoir, Mother-Daughter Way, mothers and daughters, openness, Winter Holiday

“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: Alice Steer Wilson, Blog, Cape May NJ, Death of a Parent, Family Caregivers, Historic Preservation, 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

Open Heart, Open Hand: My Prayer for You

November 23, 2016 by Janice Wilson Stridick

Open Heart, Open Hand: My Prayer for You

Although I strive for an open heart, I've been quiet lately. Let's be open with each other. There are reasons for my silence. Yes, I lost my father recently. And yes, I am in the midst of running Mother-Daughter Way ONE, which is fabulous and bountiful and exciting. But my quietness puzzles me: I love to write. I write daily, so why have I been reluctant to post? Perhaps I've muted myself because the airwaves were overcrowded with incredibly loud and angry, even hateful speech. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Death of a Parent, Food, Memoir, Writing Tagged With: Alice Steer Wilson, Connection, Gratitude, Janice Wilson Stridick, Mother-Daughter Way, openness, self-limiting beliefs

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

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

Compassion is Another Kind of Beauty

February 12, 2016 by Janice Wilson Stridick

Compassion is Another Kind of Beauty

  Compassion is the focus for the 9th week of the Mother-Daughter Way – compassion for self and for others. Valentine’s Day messages bombard us with lush images of romantic love  –  images that can be elusive and misleading. They exude a manufactured beauty that doesn't fit all shapes, sizes or ages. By contrast, compassion is always a good fit. This week, we look at times in our lives when we gave up on a dream that still smolders. It's essential to recognize and heal those … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Mothers and Daughters, Women's Stories Tagged With: Alice Steer Wilson, Janice Wilson Stridick, Margery Wells Steer, open to possibilities, The 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

Blessed Abundance or Cause for Panic?

January 21, 2016 by Janice Wilson Stridick

Blessed Abundance or Cause for Panic?

The weather forecast for this weekend is all about abundance. Of snow. Which conjures Abundance's evil twin, Scarcity: scarcity of groceries, transportation, and brawn to shovel the walks. When I walked the dog today, I was warm because my sister Deb, who travels to Sweden, taught me that there's no such thing as "bad weather" -- just "bad clothing." She doled out this tidbit of sisterly wisdom on a cold winter day in Cape May, as we prepared for Christmas. The wind was bitter and I was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Mothers and Daughters, Women's Wisdom Tagged With: Abundance, Alice Steer Wilson, Janice Wilson Stridick, Money, Root Chakra, The Mother-Daughter Way

Christmas Story: Mothers and Daughters

December 23, 2015 by Janice Wilson Stridick

Christmas Story: Mothers and Daughters

Red was my mother's favorite color. I love blue. For the first week of the Mother-Daughter Way program, we focus on safety: feeling grounded and connected to earth. Within the practice of yoga and energy work, we honor the ethereal body by balancing the chakras. The healing begins with the root chakra, which is associated with the color red and the element earth, or source. Every Christmas, I feel close to my mother when I surround myself with red. What brings you close to your mothers or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alice Steer Wilson, Blog, Mothers and Daughters Tagged With: Alice Steer Wilson, mother and daughter relationship, The Mother-Daughter Way

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: Alice Steer Wilson, Artist, Blog, 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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