To find your rhythm in life and connect with what you feel is your true creative vibe is one of the things we strive for most as human beings. The search for a truthful process of self-expression that’s real and fulfills the need within you to be heard and truly seen can provide validation that you matter, that your contribution matters to someone, somewhere. This instant jet fuel for the creative spirit is a wonderful motivator and co-conspirator, helping you feel alive and … [Read more...]
Noticing When Comfort Lulls you into Making Imbalanced Creative Compromises
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Boost your Creative Process by Embracing the “Cracks”
October 5, 2015 By Leave a Comment
At it’s core, the creative process is the ability to take ideas or concepts you are drawn to and combine them into a way to do anything. You can inspire, teach, heal, grow, play, connect with your purpose - the list is as long as the possibilities. The creative process is also the ability to take disconnected ideas, frustrating situations and challenging relationships and turn them into something that does the exact - same - things. How you use your gifts … [Read more...]
Feeling Empowered and Cultivating your Creative Sense-of-Self
September 28, 2015 By 3 Comments
When you feel empowered you see opportunity everywhere. Your creative sense of self is strong, confident and feels free to be curious, to follow the little flutters in your gut and trust your intuition. Life flows by and the bumps don’t matter; the heart truly understands these setbacks are temporary and you will make it through one way or another. However, at times when faith in yourself or path is shaken, and you feel anything but empowered, the quality of the … [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...]
Intuitive Guidance is in the Little Creative Clues
May 28, 2015 By Leave a Comment
I believe in the power of little creative clues - the small objects, coincidences and connections that serve as external confirmation you are on the right path or far from it. A creative clue can be anything that resonates with you or gets your attention, especially when you aren’t even looking for it. It can come into view when you are doing something you really love as easily as it can come into focus when you are doing something that’s not in alignment with what you … [Read more...]
Ask, Feel and Experiment your Way Through a Creative 2015
January 1, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Happy Creative New Year! Time to reset your mind, heart and soul - to pick a new direction that ties in the lessons of 2014 and sparks your heart to dig into new opportunities and supportive soul connections. Easy to say or set as a goal, right? Definitely not always easy to do. So how do you start to open up to some fresh insights that feel natural and in alignment with the vibe of the year ahead? By setting goals? Cleaning out some closets or drawers? Making kick-ass … [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...]
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...]
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...]
Change and Creative Realignment
September 4, 2014 By 2 Comments
Change waits for no one - which is a very dramatic way of saying it’s a powerful catalyst in sparking the need for a little creative realignment. The spark of change can feel… Intense, frustrating and unfair - even terrifying when it’s forced upon you, or... Scary, overwhelming and intimidating when you are in charge of making the change for yourself. However change comes into your life, it’s impact requires you do a bit … [Read more...]