Creativity is like an explored room inside of us. This room comes standard within all of us. We are usually accepted for, if not encouraged to, explore our creative rooms when we are children. But then we stop visiting it and remove ourselves from the creative space. But we can reclaim these rooms within us.
Creativity can be felt in the body. Not sure where? Think back to a time when your creative energy or ideas were belittled. What did that feel like? What did that experience reveal about how you value creativity?
I was recently asked how I set intentions. See, I don’t do resolutions.
The way I feel and see, resolutions are hard-edged, judgmental – likely to cause cuts and bruises.
I don’t need more of those, so I have another approach.
Intentions have an expansiveness to them, a soulfulness. I like them better, and I get to because there’s no right way to be a human.
Creative fatigue is part of the creative process. This is how I approach that uncomfortable moment now, after so many painful lessons in ignoring them instead.
“You are very creative,” my teachers, my friends, my extended family members used to say to me as a very young girl. It was one of my first official labels. …
