Creative fear can keep you from owning or freely sharing your talents, but what if the truth was about something else entirely? What if you are really afraid of leaving your comfort zone and all the “mess” that might entail? It’s easy to tell yourself that you suffer from a lack of creative talent when it doesn’t fit easily fit into the life you’ve built, or when it might take work to develop your raw skills. You can also always find an excuse for why you aren’t creative … [Read more...]
Focus on Small Tweaks to Break New Creative Ground
April 16, 2015 By 1 Comment
Big shifts and grand gestures get a lot of attention when it comes to breaking new creative ground, but there’s something even more powerful about the small tweaks and shifts you make as you create. It’s where playing turns into crafting; how an idea shifts from vision into form. When you feel ready for a big change in your life it can seem like you have to “go big or go home” or maybe even trash what you’ve already created for something completely new to make real … [Read more...]
Is it Time to Put Some of your Creative Skills on Hiatus?
April 9, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Your natural creative skills, as well as the ones you develop over time, are each valuable in a different way. Some creative skills offer a means of deep self-reflection and appreciation or a sense of purpose; a way to contribute and share your true self on a bigger scale. Other skills simply provide a way for you to earn a living or explore where a capability can transform into a new opportunity. In the big picture each skill plays a part, but do you need to use all of your … [Read more...]
5 Ways to Turn the Tables on Creative Indecision
February 12, 2015 By 2 Comments
When you are in a state of creative indecision it can feel like you are being held hostage by yourself. Wiggle too much and the ties get tighter, think too much and the mind gets muddled, feel too much and you are drowned by emotions instead of moving through them. Breaking free from a state of creative indecision can be simple or complicated, but you aren’t as powerless as you may feel about your “stuckness”. Trying to control how it evolves or effects you is what makes … [Read more...]
Creativity Kick-Start: Forgiveness and Creative Choices
February 9, 2015 By 2 Comments
Creative choices can carry a lot of emotional weight. Some of them are the pivotal, life-changing choices you remember because they highlight the ways you decided to honor your true self or turn away from what you really wanted to create in order to play it safe, avoid confrontation or out of sheer fear of success. Creative choices are also easy to romanticize; to dig into and exploit the inherent emotional trigger points that allow you to celebrate or judge yourself over and over … [Read more...]
Creativity Kick-Start: Explore your Next Creative Edge
December 29, 2014 By 4 Comments
As the year comes to a close I have thanks in my heart for all I’ve learned and created, paired with a simmering passion for my next creative edge. In many ways I took the things I’ve learned (and continue to learn) through my personal experience and turned them into tools and insights to support and guide others to dive deeper into creative self-exploration. Through my weekly blog posts, classes, G+ Hangout on Air appearances and connections with clients my goal is always … [Read more...]
Creative Connection, the Heart and the Holidays
December 18, 2014 By 2 Comments
Creative connection starts in the heart space, plain and simple. Whatever your unique gifts, talents, passions or abilities, the heart fuels them all. So what happens when you lose that heart connection or it gets plugged up with emotional junk, especially around the holidays? Your creative insights “power down” to a slow roll, what you are creating seems “off” or you feel shut off from the joy of the season, which creates a roadblock in your focus and … [Read more...]
Creativity Kick-Start: Practice Creative Self-Acceptance
November 24, 2014 By 1 Comment
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...]
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...]
Saying Goodbye to What’s Served Its Purpose
September 11, 2014 By 5 Comments
The things and experiences in life that shape who we are serve a purpose and are then meant to fall away, giving us room to breathe and expand into something new. At their most powerful they are a pivotal tool or gateway to something better. Then, just like leaves in the fall, these tools and experiences drop off, allowing you to break through and step into a new expression, a new adventure. While it’s all logical, saying goodbye to something or someone that’s served a … [Read more...]