Get inspired by the July 4th holiday this week and celebrate the spirit of freedom - just by being your beautiful creative self! No matter where you live in the world, my hope is that you use this reminder as a way to honor creativity and freedom of self-expression in some way, shape or form. It's the yearning for a new way, a deeper, more honest expression that inspires the creative spirit to move towards a path where it can be freely shared and reflect the true light within you. … [Read more...]
Why You Need to Stop Looking for Proof of Your Creative Chops
June 27, 2016 By Leave a Comment
People always enjoy a good origin story around how we've earned our creative chops. It's a way to connect, compare or anchor in a sense of belonging with each other. From a different perspective, creative chops act as a barometer and measure of our uniqueness; proof we are special and matter. Yet, when we place these perspectives aside, how do we define legit creative chops? Is it an action, way of thinking or skill set? Is it a mysterious blend of natural talent, … [Read more...]
Solstice Energy and Finding your Seasonal Creative Groove
June 20, 2016 By Leave a Comment
No matter where you are in the world, the solstice inspires a big shift in your creative groove. It’s a powerful marker of endings and new beginnings. You can feel it in your bones, sense it on your skin and anticipate the freshness of something different as you say goodbye and let go. In this space of releasing the grip of an old season and birthing something new, it’s important to actually breathe into what you are feeling and connect with it. What’s exciting or worn … [Read more...]
What Motivates your Creative Voice? 5 Ways to Find Out
June 13, 2016 By 1 Comment
Our creative voice is a lively blend of beliefs, fears, experiences, creative tension and the choices we make along the way - all rolled into one. This mixture of chaos and beauty helps us dig in to find our truth and ways to share it. In the middle of all these moving parts, it can be hard to pinpoint your true creative motivation. Motivation is a feeling that inspires a heart-felt or idealistic way to take action, as much as it’s sparked by the need to change or expand … [Read more...]
Discovering the Core Needs of Your Creative Soul
March 7, 2016 By Leave a Comment
Creativity is the act of envisioning something new, taking tactical steps to build the vision you see, and listening to the intuitive guidance of your creative soul - all as one combined effort. The action aspect of creativity is often where people focus because it’s more results-oriented and tangible. We can see the fruits of our labor and receive feedback from the external world to validate or influence how we see our own creations and in some ways, measure our … [Read more...]
Crown Chakra: Creative Infinity and Rebirth
February 22, 2016 By 1 Comment
The crown chakra is our connection to cosmic energy and creative inspiration beyond what we can “see” in reality. When we awaken this chakra located at the top of our head, we become one with the divine, opening a gateway that connects us to higher dimensions, expansive insights and an experience of pure joy without judgment or expectations. We also connect with a sense of peace and calm. We feel an inner knowing that as creative beings, we can play with what’s possible … [Read more...]
The Throat Chakra: Honest Self-Expression and Active Listening Shapes Creative Confidence
February 8, 2016 By 2 Comments
The throat chakra represents how we fine tune and express our unique ideas and creative voice outwardly. Guided by the heart chakra before it, our voice encompasses more than what we want to say - it includes what we are guided to say intuitively (inner voice), as well as what we are afraid to say to others out of fear of rejection, criticism or “being wrong”. In this way, the throat chakra acts as a gatekeeper, balancing our true voice with the perceived “cost” of … [Read more...]
The Heart Chakra: Emotions, Love and the Heart of a Creative Journey
February 1, 2016 By 3 Comments
The heart chakra is our love center, the place where self-love, unconditional love and compassion resonate most strongly. When tuning into our truth and purpose, the heart helps us find a way to express it outwardly, leading us towards connecting with deep creative needs and desires. The challenge is we often let the head take over and ignore the heart’s call. Listening to head over heart distracts us from what we need most of all in order for creative expression to … [Read more...]
Solar Plexus Chakra: Tapping into Personal Power and Creative Truth
January 25, 2016 By 3 Comments
The solar plexus chakra is our inner sun and the energetic center of self-worth, motivating us to act on the creative ideas that inspire us. It’s the core of what makes us unique, and fuels the desire to stand in our creative truth so we can be truly free in our self- expression. Pulling from the tribe energy of the root chakra and the partnership energy of the sacral chakra, the solar plexus speaks to our individual creative expression; what we want to say, share, express and be in … [Read more...]
Creative Expression and the Chakras: Sacral Chakra, Center of Passion, Desire and Creativity
January 18, 2016 By 5 Comments
Last week I kicked off a blog series exploring the 7 core chakras and how they influence self expression and creativity. Each chakra has a unique contribution to our overall internal energy flow and impacts how grounded, clear and freely we express ourselves in daily life. In this post, I share insights on the sacral chakra. It’s the best-known chakra when it comes to creativity and represents the “sweetness in life”; what makes it worth living. Where the root chakra serves as the primal root … [Read more...]