The unique creative spark within you is a gift as much as it’s a healing tool to help you move closer to creative self-acceptance. People often view their natural creative inclinations as good or bad, obvious or absent, lacking or not quite polished enough - all polarizing judgments that don’t leave you much room to grow. Yet, when you can reframe how you think about your creative self-expression and view it as unique inner healing tool and gift for you to hone - … [Read more...]
Working Through Creative Growing Pains
November 20, 2014 By 1 Comment
Creative growing pains are part of evolving and expanding your reach past the limitations you place on the inner you. We don’t limit ourselves consciously, but it requires a consciousness to move through the old layers into something bigger and more in alignment with what’s next. The growing pains start as subtle friction that feels itchy and uncomfortable, making you a bit wiggly within your regular ways of being or thinking. You can also feel more emotionally reactive to … [Read more...]
Creativity Kick-Start: Build a Creative Inspiration List and Share It
November 17, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Creative inspiration is catchy - plain and simple. When you connect with or do things that inspire you that energy and effort lights you up, helping you resonate with your passion and purpose with ease. How connected you are with what inspires you goes in cycles. At times it’s easy to be in tune with your natural creative spark. You have time and space in your day to do little things that keep you grounded and connected with your natural way of being. Yet, as often as life … [Read more...]
Carving a Path for Successful Creative Collaboration as an Empath
November 13, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Creative collaboration is always fun at the start of a project. Ideas are sparking. The energy feels light and fizzy. Connections between the “big picture” and personal intentions are shifting into alignment and it all feels right. Then come the dirty details of creative collaboration. Finding time. Assigning responsibilities, tasks and schedules. Showing up and completing things on a timeline. This point in the process is where something really important … [Read more...]
Creativity Kick-Start: Stop Questioning Creative Timing and Listen
November 10, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Creative timing is one of the biggest influences on your creative path. Creative timing impacts when and if you do something, why, how easy or hard it can be and if your heart is in it or not. With all these little bits of information influencing your effort and direction, it’s important to be clear on how to listen into what the timing is really telling you in the moment - not what you WISH it was telling you. These are very different things. If … [Read more...]
Creative Mojo: Balancing What is With What’s Next
November 6, 2014 By Leave a Comment
When ideas are flowing and your creative mojo feels in alignment it’s quite intoxicating. The energy you feel is contagious, opening your mind and heart to receive as you sit in the beauty of the flow. It’s not just a mind thing, it’s an all over body buzz, like extra cups of coffee or a deep meditation session. This is what so many of us are shooting for, that perfect place of connection and creative flow - but it’s also a paradox. How do you balance being in … [Read more...]
Creativity Kick-Start: Be More Spontaneous to Open Creative Flow
November 3, 2014 By Leave a Comment
How often do you toss well-crafted plans out the window to try something new or accept an unexpected invitation - letting the spark of spontaneity guide your creative flow guide towards more fun? The connection you feel in the moment to a potential creative seed or the tug you sense in your gut feels intoxicating and inspiring, but this happens less and less if you consistently keep a practiced life that never changes. When you leave a little space for the “what-if” you … [Read more...]
The Advantage of Creative Sampling vs Mastery
October 30, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Creative sampling isn’t often seen as a powerful strategy, but at times it can be even more powerful than mastery. When you are hyper-focused on developing a core area of expertise it’s easy to tune out distractions or pieces of information that aren’t in alignment, but you might also miss important signs or insights about your chosen direction. On the other hand, if you are interested in learning more broad-based skills the discernment process is more complex. You play … [Read more...]
Creativity Kick-Start: Honoring your Creative Timeline
October 28, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Life and business run on a set of standardized and accepted deadlines, yet, your personal creative timeline runs on intuition - a completely different kind of deadline driver. What are you supposed to do in a traditional work environment or as a business owner if you’re a not a morning person, need solitude to do your best work or are a highly sensitive person who needs scheduled breathing space in your work day? Should you fight these tendencies just because you work for … [Read more...]
Walking Tall After Creative Disappointment
October 24, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Creative wins always a desire for celebration, happy dance or a fist pump - maybe even all three, but how do you honor creative disappointment? What steps do you use to process emotions around missing the mark of personal expectation, or to face the possibility that an idea is not as sparkly as you had hoped? Strange as it may feel, it’s OK to celebrate your losses in a way that feels fitting, too. Instead of jumping right into a process of over-analyzing and “shoulding” … [Read more...]