LifeCraft email Newsletter (previously known as the Creative Living Courier) brings  Tips, Tools, Training and Tales of Transformation to Creative, Highly Sensitive and Gifted people. We're here to help you Craft A Life You'll Love to Live. Our topics include

• Creative, Intelligent, Sensitive Coping with Adversity 
• Life Balance for Highly Sensitive, Creative and Gifted People
• Managing Sensitivity and Intensity
• Dual Exceptionalities: Mental Health and Learning Issues for Gifted, Creative & Highly Sensitive People
• Living with Passion and Purpose for Creative, Gifted, Sensitive People

• Here's a sampling from our past newsletters:
• CSIGY's Secrets to Overcoming Holiday Blues - December 2009  (12/19/2009)
• In the northern hemisphere, December brings darkness, and with it the blues and for some, depression too.
• The Holidays are Coming- November 2009  (11/20/2009)
• Do you dread the holidays? Eagerly anticipate them? Do both at once? Here's CSIGY (Creative, Sensitive, Introverted, Gifted) Tips and Tools to Stay Balanced Through the Holidays
• How to Get Unstuck  (11/3/2009)
• Do you ever feel stuck? Find one thing piling on top of another?
• On the Road to First Grade  (9/10/2009)
• Suddenly I was seven years old again, sitting in the back seat of a red and white 1957 Ford Fairlane station wagon. I was on the road to first grade,
• Creative Disasters  (6/26/2009)
• Have you ever started a creative project that went so badly you trashed it? I have–more times than I’d like to admit.
• I Hate Mothers Day   (5/6/2009)
• Awful as it seems, It's time I admit it. I hate Mothers' Day. Here's Sharon's reflections on how to overcome perfectionism and heal our lives, feed our souls, and fund our dreams.
• Remembering Columbine   (4/20/2009)
• Sharon moved into the Columbine High School neighborhood just six weeks before the tragic shooting. Here's her reflections plus tools for coping with trauma.
• How to Reclaim Your Life  (7/8/2008)
• Sharon once salvaged a throw-away quilt block to use as a practice block. Now it's the center of a new quilt. Here's the story of its transformation, and 13 Life Lessons Learned While Quilting.
• Tips for Springing into Life  (4/18/2007)
• Sharon walked along the Platte River in the Spring, and shares Life Lessons from the cycles of nature.
• Tips for Starting the New Year off right!  (1/23/2007)
• Setting Goals isn't easy for Perfectionists! Here's Sharon tips a good start on the new year.
• Ten Ways to Cope With Holiday Grief  (12/19/2006)
• Grief is never easy to bear, but during the holidays, it's especially tough. Here's ten ideas to ease your pain during the holidays.
• Tips for Staying Balanced Through the Holidays  (12/14/2006)
• Life Balance can be a challenge any time of year, but the holidays add more pressure and stress. Here's how to stay balanced through the holidays.
• THIS Has More Impact on Kids Than Anything Else  (10/17/2006)
• Parents sometimes wonder what matters and what can be ignored. Here's help in knowing what has the greatest long term impact on your kids.
• Five Things You Can Teach Your Kids About Money  (10/10/2006)
• Money is a taboo topic is many homes. Gary Barnes is our guest to help us get our kids started off right.
• Helping Kids When Mom is Depressed  (5/23/2006)
• Research shows how to prevent mental health problems (or treat them) for kids with a parent who is depressed.
• Blue Highways  (3/29/2006)
• Reflections on looking for the Freeway of Life, but instead, finding oneself on life's back roads.