HEALING my relationship with my CREATIVITY

I’ll let you in on a little secret… since taking my art full time, my relationship with my creativity has changed. Passion for art turned to pressure, and I stopped loving the act of creating. In the beginning of July, I decided to go on a one-month journey to HEAL my relationship with my creativity. To let go of the pressure, to let go of my negative mindsets, to face my creative fears and frustrations, and to treat creativity as a stranger that I’d like to get to know as a friend.

Little did I know this one-month journey was going to change the game for my creative practice. During the first couple weeks of August, I meditated on everything I’d learned and the impact this challenge had on my creativity. I quickly realized that I couldn’t keep all of this to myself. If seeing my journey could encourage or inspire even just one other person and help them heal with their own creativity, then I wanted to share this with them.

So, I decided to create a 6-part video series on YouTube chronicling this adventure. 5 videos showing the footage I have for each week of art and a deep-dive into what I learned during those weeks, and a 6^th video touring through ALL of the artwork and sharing the highlights of what I learned and how all of this will impact my creative practice going forward.

Because I want to be able to put out one of these videos each week, I’m currently working double time on script-writing, recording, and editing. So, that’s been a bit crazy. 😅 But I’m SO EXCITED about this series, and I truly believe it’s going to help other creatives like me! The first video is now up on YouTube sharing the beginning of the journey: SPARKING JOY in my creative practice.

If you’d like to join me in the live chat for the premiere of the 2^nd video, it’ll be up on September 30^th at 2:00 PM CST! I love hanging out with y’all in the live chat. Truly it is so chaotic and fun chatting about everything from art to our pets to our apple preferences (yes, we really did debate the perfect apple varieties during one of the premieres…😅)

Anyhoo, I hope you’ll join me on this journey of healing my relationship with creativity! It’s an adventure…