Lala Jackson | Author, Speaker & Advocate
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I’m Lala Jackson, and I’m a chronic health author, speaker, and advocate. I’m a staunch and vocal advocate for health justice and intelligent approaches to health care policy and delivery, particularly as it concerns people living with chronic illness, and I love writing and speaking about all of the amazing things that bond the chronic illness community
Lala Jackson | Author, Speaker & Advocate
2y ago
Don’t prefer reading? You can also listen to the audio version of this post. How do you go about choosing one word for a whole year? What if you choose wrong? And is it really possible to choose just one word? The answer is yes, and I am going to give you a step-by-step tutorial on ..read more
Lala Jackson | Author, Speaker & Advocate
3y ago
We’ve all seen them — your favorite internet person’s word of 2021. But how does one go about choosing one word, for a whole year? What if one chooses wrong? And is it really possible to choose just one word?
The answer is yes, and I am going to give you a step by step tutorial on how to choose your own word to guide your year. I’m going to share with you the most important lesson I’ve learned over the past decade of doing this, I am going to share what my words have been each year and what they invited in, and I’m going to provide some suggestions on how to choose the word that’s right f ..read more
Lala Jackson | Author, Speaker & Advocate
3y ago
I don’t do new year’s resolutions because they hold no real importance to or impact for me. I already put so much pressure on myself to succeed that they feel like yet another source of pressure and – let’s be real – ones that are rarely stuck to.
So after college, I shifted. Instead of resolutions, I started choosing words – one word per year – to guide my intention. They become my theme, my gut-check:
“Does XYZ serve this intention I’ve set? Yes or no?”
And if it’s no, it’s out. For me, it’s both easier and bigger. Setting a one-word intention is far more about who I want to be, rather than ..read more
Lala Jackson | Author, Speaker & Advocate
4y ago
I’ve spent the last year becoming more of myself, a large part of that writing for myself rather than for a validating audience. It’s allowed me to uncover parts of my core I had hidden and changed over the past few decades.
Part of grounding back into myself has been working on my first novel. A lovely and challenging and illuminative experience, given I never thought I had any talent in fiction and have since realized I never learned how.
I’m aiming for a zero draft by my birthday in April, and a final polished first draft to start pitching to agents by the end of 2020.
One of the few things ..read more
Lala Jackson | Author, Speaker & Advocate
5y ago
If you have about 10 minutes to read, I would love your feedback and input.
I’ve written two other fiction pieces in my life. The first was in 10th grade English class and was truly awful. The second was the summer after 11th grade and I liked it (as did one other person in my creative writing class) but the teacher tore it apart.
After that, I just accepted that I wasn’t good at fiction, that I didn’t have a mind for it, and I would stick to the essays, thought pieces, and non-fiction I seemed to excel at.
But I LOVE fiction. I live in the world of fiction. When people ask me what books I rea ..read more