Creative confusion makes it easy to get stuck in your head, going in circles. Every option seems like the best choice, or, you think yourself out of every possible way forward so you stay right where you are. Feeling creative confusion can also make it challenging to trust your intuition and emotions, enticing you to circle back and rely on the “facts” your brain presents to you. Yet, these “facts” are mixed up with ego, familiarity of past patterns and fears. When the … [Read more...]
Listen to your Creative Calling, Even if it Feels Like you are Standing Alone
November 16, 2015 By 1 Comment
The brave choice to follow your unique creative calling and step into your true self doesn’t always feel natural. It can seem like you are standing at the edge of a cliff, waiting to see if you can spot someone, anyone, who can possibly relate to where you’ve been and where you want to go. At the same time, each person grows in nonlinear ways, taking leaps backward, forwards and sideways to follow a path that speaks to their truths, wounds to heal and lessons. As a … [Read more...]
Creativity and Little White Lies: Which Ones Are You Telling Yourself?
November 9, 2015 By Leave a Comment
It’s easy to take your natural creativity and skills for granted. As something that flows for you, there’s little risk and limited effort required to keep it going, and even less of a reason to put extra energy into it. However, when natural aptitudes keep you in a plateau, operating at a status quo level, you are also protecting yourself from risk or judgment. This is the spot where most people stay, kind of owning their creativity but not really willing to … [Read more...]
Creative Confidence, Rejection and How they Inspire Each Other
September 21, 2015 By 1 Comment
At some point in your life, you’ve experienced the sting of rejection and the way it makes you question your path, focus, intentions or talents. The creative confidence you have in yourself can feel shaken and uprooted, like a tree upended in a fast-paced storm without a way to right itself again. The sense of equilibrium you had is no longer possible, and it’s not supposed to be. What’s waiting before you is the choice to be inspired or feel less than. When you … [Read more...]
The Power of Playing with your Seasonal Creative Muse
September 14, 2015 By Leave a Comment
I think the creative muse within each of us has two types of seasonal cycles. One falls in step with nature, bringing a new bundle of energy, sensations and weather conditions every three months. The other is more closely related to personal expansion and how your creativity and self expression change throughout your life. In a sense, you progress through “seasons” of challenge, growth, learning and embracing the “current you” while you allow the old one to fall … [Read more...]
Tuning into the Energy of your Creative Path Each Day
August 24, 2015 By 2 Comments
The creative path is an alluring distraction, passion-igniter, personal development tool, friend and more, all wrapped into one. When you need a break from the pace of life your creative path is there, imagination sparked and ready. As a healthy distraction, it serves to replenish and balance your mind, body and spirit as you work hard and give to others. It also acts as an invitation to dream and embrace what’s possible by stepping away from what you’ve come to know as … [Read more...]
To Fulfill your True Purpose, Freely Share the Power of your Creative Light
August 17, 2015 By 1 Comment
The creative light within every person has a purpose. It’s a way to experience personal joy and fulfillment by fully expressing your unique traits in the world. The other essential aspect of your creative light is how it enables you to connect with others and share freely, so you may each directly experience gifts you don’t have personally. When you look at the big picture, often what divides us is what we think we do or do not have. Yet, if every single person had the … [Read more...]
The Active Balance of Striving for and Celebrating Creative Milestones
August 10, 2015 By Leave a Comment
How you set and work towards creative milestones can be an interesting little window into how you think and treat yourself. It’s also a way to get some insight on the cause of a recurring creative block in your life. Are you often making big grand plans that feel right, then focus on how fast they are (or aren’t) happening rather than the creative joy you are experiencing or the lessons you are learning? I’ve been there, done that. Is it hard for you to be … [Read more...]
Savor the Moment to Enhance Creative Awareness
July 27, 2015 By 1 Comment
Creative awareness isn’t something you do as much as something you experience by being able to savor the moment you are in, right now. When you go about the day, your senses function on a basic level to help you survive, work, take care of family and fuel the body. If you also spend a lot of time at the computer or doing hands on work, only specific senses are required for focus and work tasks. In these situations, your realm of creative awareness is limited to survival, … [Read more...]
Listening to Creative Whispers is Playful Edge-Stretching
July 23, 2015 By Leave a Comment
The little creative whispers you hear in the back of your mind or feel in your heart are a powerful siren song, calling you to stretch into new experiences. These playful invitations are like breadcrumbs that show you more is possible, and also help bring a budding or hidden desire to the surface for playful exploration. At first there may not be any clear reason for what you are hearing or feeling. Over time, you sense similar hits and messages that begin to point your … [Read more...]