Has this ever happened to you? You experience a negative event–a small mistake leads to criticism from a friend or perhaps a colleague makes a negative comment. It gets lodged in your mind and you can’t stop thinking about it. You relive it over and over again. After a little while, you begin to focus […]
Whatever you create, comes from inside you. You have thoughts and feelings and translate them into your creative work. You dance with YOUR body, you write YOUR thoughts, you sing with YOUR voice. It’s hard to negate your contribution to your work when you bring so much to it. Yet, sometimes we want to blame […]
Do you sometimes (or often) lose your connection to your creativity? You feel shitty, tell yourself that you’re supposed to think freely and express yourself, but find yourself feeling trapped in old patterns and your life feels like Groundhog Day. You notice your inspiration and intuitive nudges slip through your fingers and the more tightly […]
Perfectionist artists that strive to create a “worthy” piece of art made us believe that creativity is about struggle and pain. Being a creative human seems to be a rare blessing and a lifelong punishment at the same time. Either you have true talent and are entitled to make art, or you are an ignorant […]
Spontaneous free expression seems risky and open for ridicule? As an introverted good girl you were trained to be nice and quiet person that with small body language? Unfortunately, you are just not the type for free, uninhibited expression. At least that’s what you’re telling yourself all day. Yet you long to be seen and […]
For many humans creativity is a locked treasure chest that – if opened – contains heaps of self-criticism with very little creative fulfillment. Do you know this nagging voice inside of you that puts down your art and points out all the ways you could and should have done better? Have you ever been trapped […]
When the idea of making bags out of canvas that I painted myself came to me, I knew that I had to take action on it without delay. It felt like the universe made me an offer that only stood for a few days. So the very next day I grabbed some painted canvas leftovers […]
We don’t choose our desires, but our desires choose us. We cannot choose to desire something else than we desire. It’s possible that we don’t like our desires for various reasons. Maybe the desire doesn’t make sense and we judge it as stupid, maybe we think it’s too big and unattainable for us, or maybe […]
The personal development industry often centers around trying to fix people as if they were broken and needed repair. It implies that there is a right way to think and act and that we are all doing it wrongly.It implies that life has a goal and we need to work hard to get a glimpse […]
Inspired by Carolyn Elliotts work around shadow integration that she calls “Existential Kink” I deepened my embodied experience of the importance of feeling everything. Every emotion, every experience, every thought and emotion invites us to feel more deeply and be more present with what is. They also provide a chance for our ego to jump […]