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Elizabeth H. Cottrell

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Elizabeth's circuitous career has taken her from published leprosy researcher to stay-at-home mother, to community activist and leader serving on nonprofit and corporate boards, to ham radio operator, to freelance writer/editor and blogger at Heartspoken.com.

Above all, she is a connector and encourager whose writing explores the four essential connections of the Heartspoken Life: with God, with Self, with Others, and with Nature. Her expertise and passion for note writing on display in her 2022 book comes at just the right time to touch a pandemic world desperately in search of connection. What better way to connect when we're forced to stay apart physically than to write and send a heartspoken note or letter? Elizabeth is the right person ...more

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Heartspoken: How to Write Notes that Connect, Comfort, Encourage, and Inspire

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Life Lessons From The Autumn Trees

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As autumn paints the landscape around us, I’m delighted to welcome my sister, Sarah C. Albritton, as this week’s guest at Heartspoken.com. Sarah is a gifted intuitive executive coach who has spent her career helping leaders uncover their deepest truth and lead from that authentic place.

In this lovely reflection, she captures two themes dear to Heartspoken: Co

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“Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have. So let us leave behind all these boys' philosophies--these over simple answers. The problem is not simple and the answer is not going to be simple either.”
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