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Finding Your Creative Mojo: Beyond Excuses

    This week on the Finding Your Creative Mojo series we look at what is behind those excuses that tend to come up just when you were planning on spending more time being creative.  You can watch the other videos in this series here: Finding Your Creative Mojo Part One: What’s Your Story? Part Two: Finding […]

Finding Your Creative Mojo: Voices from the Past

    Are voices from the past holding you back from exploring your creativity to its fullest?  This week we take a look at messages that obstruct one’s creativity. This is the third video in the Finding Your Creative Mojo Video Series where you will find out: How to Identify what gets in your way […]

Sacred Listening

        Sometimes life gets busy. Overwhelm sets in and paralyzes. Instead of getting everything “done” nothing seems to get done. The space seems so expansive too much to fill up.     Fear sets in         “You can’t do this” cry the gremlins of self-doubt. Self doubt becomes a […]

Getting to your Creativity

  Believe it or not, I have often grappled with my own creative demons more than I care to admit.  I realize that it may be easy for you, dear reader to assume that because I write about finding and nurturing one’s creative side that I have myself surpassed or completely tamed these struggles.  But […]

Creative Saboteurs

  You know those negative messages we hear from others, the ones we have internalized from childhood into adulthood? Ever notice that they can suck our creative energy right out of us?   I have heard the gamut of negative messages, which have held people back from expressing their creative selves fully:  Stories of being […]

When Shift Happens

Creating would be so much easier and more full of fun if we would only let it be. But creating is fun, isn’t it? Yes if we allow it to be. However most of us don’t practice the art of allowing our creativity to fully express. Most of us ponder should we do it this […]

When fear takes up too much space

  One of my biggest blocks to my creativity being unleashed has been the excuse of not enough time. I use to say to myself that I didn’t have any time to do art for myself, I was too busy. Whether it was the kids, feeling tired after work, feeling like I had so many […]

When Stuck Comes to Visit

  Ever find yourself in a creative funk? One where you want to be creating something with ease and flow, but instead find that you feel like you’re out in a desert, without water to quench you, let alone a mirage to spark your imagination?   I have had those days too.  In fact, I […]

Unfinished Business

It’s been a pretty busy month, I can’t believe it is already February! As part of the Art Therapy Alliance 6 Degrees of Creativity, I have been having fun making sock monkeys and sending them overseas to live with new families, making my first set of ATC (artist trading cards).  I have been keeping up […]

Dreamy Giveaway!

  I’m very excited that the Dream Dialogues eCourse will be beginning in less than two weeks!  I am so looking forward to guiding the Dream Dialogues tribe through this eCourse and sharing this wonderful inner journey  with kindred spirits. And as I believe that there is merit to the phrase “the more the merrier” […]