Creative Genius - a blog about finding & unleashing your inner magic – Page 37
Are you trying to access your creativity? Get back touch with creativity? Find ways to become more creative? Or maybe you want to deepen creativity? The Creative Genius Blog offers insights & ideas for getting creatively unstuck so you can find and unleash your creativity. May it be exactly what you need to hear today.
I am a 3rd generation Ukrainian Canadian woman. I’ve spent most of my life disconnected from my cultural roots. My heritage was not hidden from me, I was simply not exposed to it. From what I can put together, this was largely because my immigrant great-grandparents and grandparents worked hard to put the pain of their pasts behind them, inadvertently tucking away many of the beautiful things that went with it at the same time. Like many humans across the globe, the violent invasion of Ukraine has made me heartsick and angry, helpless and scared. And it has also stirred deep feelings of compassion, tenderness, reverence and a visceral feeling of connection to both my ancestors and long-lost living...
Creativity is the energy that animates the entire universe. It's the intelligence behind all of it. It's what's moving your hand across a canvas. It's what's telling you the next word to write if you're writing, it's what's telling you what note to play, if you're singing or composing. It's what lets you know what flavors work well or don't. And it is beyond that, it's also a curiosity, intuition, gut instinct & inner knowings.
Emily Jeffords is funny and kind and all around lovely, I think you are going to fall in love with her. I hope you enjoy this episode.
I hope you hear something in this episode that moves you. And if there is please share it with a friend and then with us in the reviews section of Apple Podcasts.
Anxiety and stress had taken over her life. At the urging of her therapist, Author Sheila Darcey turned to creativity as a way to express trapped emotions her therapist believed were at the root of her anxiety. Through daily practice of sketching, she was able to gain significant insights into the inner workings of her own subconscious and unconscious mind and ultimately free herself from the “out of control” anxiety that had been running her life.
Recently I was having some ups and downs around the podcast. It has been such an incredible invitation for me to grow into who I was always meant to be. But as you know, growing can be painful sometimes. So I was having a conversation earlier this week with Jane Dunnewold who I was fortunate enough to have as a guest for two episodes (episodes 5 and 6) she said, “Kate you know the universe doesn't...
