Mindfulness creativity and healing practices can support our wellbeing. Mindfulness is awareness of the present moment with kindness and curiosity. Creativity practices keep our attention focused on the present moment and allow us to be rather than get entangled in so much doing. My favorite holistic optometrist once said to me that the key to […]
My creative vision is changing. My photography has always been a contemporary inquiry into landscape, place, memory, narrative, and meaning. Much of my work has involved focus study of landscape and the notion of equivalence as investigated in the work of Minor White. The work has primarily explored equivalence in relation to emotion. Through the […]
Clarity is power. –Buckminster Fuller It’s only 9:30, and I’ve encountered this message twice today, that “Clarity is power.” Yesterday I had an awesome session with my coach, discussing my intentions and action steps for the next month. I’m juggling several projects at once right now, and when you add the business aspects to all […]
Creative arts for healing can help us to integrate our body, heart, and mind to support our physical and mental health. We spend a great deal of time avoiding our experience because we judge it as too difficult or overwhelming to manage. When we engage with creative arts, we engage our body, heart, and mind […]
What does it mean to live your full creative potential? Maybe it means deciding what you want to do in this world and taking the next steps. I’ve decided to join the folks nablogpomo, National Blog Posting Month, for June and post every day. June’s topic is “Jump.” I just registered today and decided to […]
Most creatives want to get better at overcoming creativity blocks. This has been another week bursting with creative energy. After living in Wilmington, NC for a year now, I’ve made a firm commitment to continue to stay here, to be here full-time, to create a life and community here. It really is true what they […]
When we make time to explore our creative longings, we feel more inspired. This week I walked on the beach for hours, searching for treasures that the sea had washed up. I walked slowly and allowed myself to be drawn to whatever I felt drawn to. I found an armful of driftwood and coral, along […]
Embracing possibility can help us to feel a greater sense of life satisfaction. I’m all fired up from spending the afternoon with a friend yesterday and talking about creativity, writing, and books. I love hanging out with other people who are actively engaged in their own creative process, daring to live their lives, and daring […]
When you commit to your creativity, you can access a greater sense of creative ease, freedom, and flow. Many creative people struggle with commitment to creativity. Sure, sometimes the well runs dry and we struggle to generate creative ideas, but more often, we have so many creative ideas that we have difficulty committing to one […]
Answering the call to create means saying, “Yes!” to this moment, yes to a Spirit that beckons to us to claim our true nature and become a conduit for the expression of our authentic voice. We are all called to create in some manner—through artistic expression, writing, parenting our children well, developing a strategic plan […]