When I was in grade one I had a music teacher named Mrs. Holmes. She asked me to stand in the back row of the choir and “mouth” the words. She told me in a very authoritative, confident and matter-of-fact way, that my voice was “not good” and that I would ruin the music for everybody if I tried to sing. I was five. I remember feeling deeply embarrassed, ashamed and very alone. I thought this meant I was broken, faulty as a human...

...for a long time I thought the universe couldn’t hear me because I wasn’t seeing any signs.Then one day, out of the blue, on an early morning walk through my quiet neighbourhood with my dog Lionel, I literally heard a voice break the silence and firmly declare, ‘you need

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The call to become creative is powerful, but can be met with all kinds of limiting beliefs in our own minds, if we let it. AS powerful, ineffable force is waiting to meet us when we allow ourselves to play with the materials and create what delights our senses, for no other purpose than to connect with the simple, beauty of colour itself. Listen to this terrific episode and be inspired!