Can you tell when it’s time to start breaking ties with storylines you thought you needed to finish? It’s a question I’ve been asking myself a lot lately. Like so many others, I had a creative vision and direction locked in my mind for 2020 - with an execution strategy to match. There was definitely flexibility and wiggle room to make shifts and changes on the fly, but I was not prepared for a “full stop”, prolonged break from in-person connection. I also wasn’t ready to … [Read more...]
Time to Break Ties With What Is No Longer Your Truth, For Good
August 3, 2020 By 2 Comments
When it’s time to break ties with what is no longer your truth, you don’t necessarily have an active choice in the decision. It can start off as a nagging feeling that something isn’t quite right. Then it moves into a state of frustration, and no matter how you try to push forward, things are at a standstill- as your feelings get more rocky and intense. Then you reach a point where things can morph into full blown melt-down mode where the friction and discord is so clear … [Read more...]
Time to Trust Your Feelings As A Guide To Clarity and Self Mastery
May 4, 2020 By 1 Comment
This may seem like a cliche, but it really is more important than ever to trust your feelings as a guide to clarity and self mastery. And I’ll tell you why. We are all going through loss, fear, growth, challenges, and set-backs in different ways. While the details of our personal experiences are unique, we have an opportunity as a global community to step into this universal slow down and actively reset how we align feelings and actions. This includes any … [Read more...]
Creative Friction Is The Gift You Never Knew You Wanted
November 5, 2019 By 1 Comment
Yes, you are reading this correctly - creative friction is the gift you never knew you wanted. I could give a speech about how every great writer, artist, and entrepreneur faces challenges or obstacles they need to overcome, but we’ve heard that one a million times. I can also share insights on the hero’s journey and the essential role it holds in making us the fully baked humans we are meant to be, but tons of other folks have already done it. I want to … [Read more...]
Creative Empowerment is a Commitment to Practicing Your Truth, Moment to Moment
April 2, 2019 By Leave a Comment
There’s something about the idea of creative empowerment that can feel a bit slippery as a concept. Is it an action? Feeling? Belief? All of the above? Something we are born with? Learn? Practice? A lofty goal that can never be attained? I like to think of creative empowerment as an invitation to live into what we are becoming through what we are creating, moment to moment. Or in other words, how we step into life and act or react to … [Read more...]
Why Practicing Creative Discernment is Essential for Everyone
October 1, 2018 By Leave a Comment
There is an art to practicing creative discernment, or in other words, your personal ability to sense if something is in alignment with you and the deepest expression of your creative truth. And right now you might be asking yourself, why is creative discernment important if I already create from my heart and go for what I want? You might also say, does this matter if I don’t really see myself as “creative”? My answer is yes, it matters, and here’s the core … [Read more...]
Creative Opinions, Which Ones Are You Taking to Heart And Why?
April 24, 2017 By Leave a Comment
There will always be people who want to share their creative opinions about what we do. Their words can come across as a harmless, simple suggestions meant to inspire or motivate us, or they may cut wide and deep, venturing into preachy territory. These two ends of the creative opinions spectrum can start out with good intent, but don’t necessarily foster our creative spirit. However, while you are unable to stop people from sharing their thoughts, what they say is not … [Read more...]
The Healing Power of Getting Clear on your Deepest Creative Truths
November 30, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Can you list your creative truths? Are you clear on what you need to create and what can fall away? Do you honor the voice within and give it a creative outlet? If not, it’s time to be really honest with yourself about what’s keeping you from tapping into the healing power of connecting with your deepest creative truths. Fear? Confusion? Or something bigger, like stepping into the freedom and power of owning your fullest self-expression? In the process of discovering … [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...]
Stand Your Creative Ground With Others
May 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Creative self expression can feel like a very personal risk, especially when you need to stand your creative ground with others. This exact feeling is what keeps so many people from fully diving into their creative passion or expressing themselves -- the fear of how to explain themselves to the world. The truth is you are absolutely not obligated to explain yourself to anyone regarding your creative pursuits, but will most likely need to stand your creative ground at a point when you least … [Read more...]