Jena Douglas: Blog

What is a "Write Your Song!" workshop by Jena - you ask?  Well, It starts with my belief (Jena here) that we all have a song to contribute to the earth's choir!  Our story needs to be told and one of the best and most honest ways to tell a story is in a song! And if you were to write one song it is my hope that it is a song you'd want to share with the world.  What is your song?  So much of what I want to do in my workshops are to help you feel the need to write a song when you don't have any idea as to why you have to write but you do.  Rather than to act on anything, it is better to reflect and to write a song.
When I am inspired to write because of a feeling, I usually start with some questions like, "Why am so sad or happy?  What is it that I am really feeling?  How can I let go of this feeling or keep it going? Where do I begin to forgive and forget or where do I begin to share the love that I am feeling?  These are just a few examples of what [...]

I recently, have had a fight with one of my family members. It's the kind of stuff that break families apart but I did not want to be so hurt that I could talk to this person anymore. I had to endure the emotions I was feeling pick up my pride and write a song! This was after confronting my beloved kin. I was not going to let them ruin a perfectly good relationship just because I was hurt. After all I have dished out a few unkind words in my life that I regret and wish I could take back but there you have it. We are all different. I had to write a song.

I was unsure of how I was feeling but I wanted to write a happy song! This is a challenge for me. I have had way too much tragedy in my life but I want to keep that in the past and start remembering all the glorious moments of living in Paradise. No, literally, I was raised in a cabin nestled in the valley behind Santa Barbara Ca. called Paradise Camp. I recently came across some pictures I took when camping there with my mom ( well, recent [...]

Imagine peace.com is a place where I feel the work of John Lennon, inspired and created by Yoko Ono, lives on! But......, can we really get peace by just imagining it? If you believe in the "Law Of Attraction" then, yes, it is possible. Not to get off on any tangent about quantum physics and the power of thought, but chants, singing, thoughts and prayer, do, universally, pin point, and sometimes resolve, intense (but rich and passionate!) emotions.