When I realized how much I was doing to shove it down, make it be quiet, ignore it, so that I could play it safe, not take risks, not deal with the uncertainty that creativity almost always asks us to play with, it brought me to my knees (really, I was standing at my kitchen counter when it hit me, and my knees buckled and I sat there crying on the floor.) And my life was glitching because of it.Ĭreativity has been my best friend my whole life. Of course I felt the rumblings from my heart about certain relationships that were not healthy for me, but I was too ruled by fear to let creativity (intuition, gut instincts) guide me in changing any of it. I was doing it in my day-to-day life, too. It wasn’t just in my art that I quieted this inner intelligence. I did a lot of making, but not much creating. ![]() I had been a professional artist most of my career, but I wasn’t doing the true art that was inside me, whispering to me - I was doing things that felt safe. But the point is I am very shy and private, and never in a million years imagined myself in this position. ![]() Or maybe an introverted extrovert, who loves people. If you told me a year ago that I would be starting an online community to support the magic emerging out of a podcast I also just started, I would have laughed and then run away to hide in my cozy knitting chair. A Creative Community Built For Us to Shineīeautiful friends.
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