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So often it can feel as though our lives should be heading on a clear, direct trajectory - finding our passion and achieving our goals - yet in reality, our path of learning and growth is much more like that of a numberless dot-to-dot picture.It can be really hard to articulate what kind of picture we are creating, because the truth is that it's not until we look back at the end of a particular season that we can really begin to see the beauty we've been slowly cultivating.Think of this podcast as a companion on the journey - I'm busy connecting my own dots of artistry, motherhood and everything in between, and as I share what I am learning, I hope to encourage and inspire you to trust your process and lean in to the journey.Original Artwork - Eleanor Oliver & Cassie HubertOriginal Music - Cassie Hubert.
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Comfort can fall into two extremes. We either chase and practically idolise it, trying to get our lives to exist permanently in our perfect comfort zone - or we resist it everywhere, seeing it as less than, and an enemy to our growth and progress, the comfort zone is a place to turn our noses up at. But what if we saw comfort as part of the process of loving ourselves well, and setting ourselves up for growth and success, by rightly determining when to lean in, and when to accept additional...
Have you ever been told that in order to survive and get on in this world, you need to develop a thick skin? Maybe you've been led to believe that softness is weakness (and not in a good way), and that to be soft is to be less-than. Well I don't think so! What if, in order to grow into our creativity and our relationships with more freedom, softness was the way forward? Join me today as I explore why I don't think that the process of softening isn't stupidity. In today's episode I referen...
How often do you find that you have big plans or ideas, but then fail to be able to execute them because of... well... Life? Perhaps you long to fulfill a big project, but it's slow going due to ongoing health needs, or family commitments or because you simply cannot maintain the pace? You are not alone. This is where embracing the 'Stop/Start' way of pursuing what matters will get you further than nowhere. Because even showing up in small ways, as and when you can, is better than not show...
Making art requires connection to our emotions and physical sensations... the more connected we are, the better able we are to create work that resonates. However, we can mistake this need to be in touch with our feelings with a sense that we should reside in that feeling space, when by nature, a bubble of Feeeeelings is just that, a fixed bubble of stasis. So how can we treasure those feelings without needing to be stuck within them in order to feel truly alive? Support the show If you woul...
When you can't see what's happening below the surface, it can cause us to worry whether anything is actually happening at all - whether we are discussing personal growth or creative development. Yet what if the deepest work, that gets us to the point where we see progress on the surface, actually benefits from happening out of sight? Learning to trust our instincts, particularly when we feel wobbly about our progress, is a really valuable practice to cultivate. Support the show If you would ...
When making creative work (and also being in healthy relationships) a lot of value is placed on being able to be present. You can't actually make something that is in the past - it has already passed us by. Neither can we create something in the future, if we don't begin the process now. Yet how many of us spend much of our thought and feeling life time-travelling between past and future? I know I do! So what helps us to stay present - getting more connected to our bodies. Join me as I explo...
We all have moments of self doubt, and when we are pursuing a path that is more off the beaten track, it can feel really hard, and sometimes lonely, when we doubt our choices. Yet if we see our creative and personal lives as being part of a quest, an ongoing journey in pursuit of something meaningful, rather than something we will live out to the letter, it has the capacity to free us up to trust the journey, and hopefully connect with the experiences and scenery along the way. Support the...
How often do you judge your ideas (or people - guilty here) too soon and without the full picture? For our creativity to thrive and our ideas to flow, we need to leave judgement at the door. Once we have got the idea or the work fully formed, then we are in a better position to apply critical thinking to the work, and make our adjustments, but too soon, and we'll probably kill it off. The same applies to the people in our lives. Join me as I chat through the nature of judgement ...
How often do we ignore the pull towards something, because we feel we should be doing something else right now? What if we were to be more responsive to those things which do draw us, trusting that we will come back to the shoulds more easily at a later point, and possibly with a greater energy and impetus, due to listening to the deeper parts of ourselves? Join me for today's episode as I explore this. Support the show If you would like to support the podcast, you can do so here! And you c...
** Welcome to season 6 of Connecting The Dots!*** After the darkest season of Winter, yet before Spring is sprung, join me as I deep dive into all things creativity, artistry, parenting, self-care, personal growth, relationships and EVERYTHING that helps us live more fully into our freedom as creative, vibrant beings - separate to, but not exclusive of our productivity. So this episode kicks off with a bit of reflection and planning around how we ebb and flow in our rhythms of life, and how...
As the days get shorter and darker and we look forward to the coming of the lights of Christmas and hope for the light of new life and creativity in Spring, it can feel as though the waiting is forever. When a difficult season drags, it can be so tempting to give up hope that there will ever be a shift, but i am here to offer you some encouragement that this season is not forever, the wait is not for nothing, and it is not empty. Support the show If you would like to support the podcast, yo...
Christmas is getting closer, and all the energy is ramping up as we prepare for the coming festivities, but as we enter the season of Advent, maybe we can take a little bit of time to gather inwards, with our thoughts and feelings and with our families in order to sit with the hiatus of the 'now and not yet', and reflect on where we are before we rush into the season, headlong. Support the show If you would like to support the podcast, you can do so here! And you can also click here to sig...
Stories are powerful ways of helping us make sense of the world and our own experiences. Even more so, our own personal stories and the way we engage with and express them. It's not about spin, but framing does matter, because our stories matter. So allowing ourselves to connect with them with comfort and hope - and a good cuppa, is another way of honouring our voices and caring for ourselves. Support the show If you would like to support the podcast, you can do so here! And you can al...
I think that we can often feel that our voice (aka what we have to contribute) is not really either valuable or important, and that what we might think or want to say isn't worth sharing. But I disagree. I am convinced that each of us has value and a unique perspective that the world needs to hear, and so getting more confident in both identifying and using our voice, will bring more insight and beauty to the world. You were born for such a time as this. Support the show If you would lik...
How often to we come up against resistance in our attempts to move forward because we are hanging on to a specific picture of what the result should be? We have a fixed outcome in mind - if I do this, or make so and so do that, then the result will/should be .... Having a vision or a goal is a really good and helpful thing, but sometimes we can get to hung up on the specific detail of what we are aiming for. What if we were to drop the idea that there is one specific outcome and instead em...
When we are in the thick of a grieving season, sometimes it can be all we can do to feed ourselves. In this episode, I explore what self care can look like when we are trying to survive the worst of our grief. Support the show If you would like to support the podcast, you can do so here! And you can also click here to sign up to my newsletter Connect, Create & Resonate Original Artwork - Eleanor Oliver & Cassie Hubert Original Music - Cassie Hubert.
Delight and joy can come from unexpected places, but often in stressful seasons, we can find it really hard to notice them and allow ourselves to receive the gift of them. I have found that learning to be attentive, lean in and enjoy them, far from undermining the gravity of a tough season, can actually be something beautiful which sustains me through it. How about you? Support the show If you would like to support the podcast, you can do so here! And you can also click here to sign up to m...
There is no one perfect trajectory for grief. There is only allowing ourselves to be where we are and be gentle with ourselves in the process of grieving. Today I talk about ways we can lean in to grieving well, without sacrificing our authenticity, and I also share a little about the loss of our infant daughter to a late miscarriage. Support the show If you would like to support the podcast, you can do so here! And you can also click here to sign up to my newsletter Connect, Create &am...
Definition of Plod - Slow moving and unexciting. How often can our progress through life and especially difficult seasons of trauma and grief feel slow and unexciting, like we will never fly, or come through the worst of our pain into something more meaningful? But what if the art of plodding was actually a gift for us, laying the stable foundations for bursts of growth and greater freedom within ourselves? Support the show If you would like to support the podcast, you can do so here! And ...
The power of a good story to delight and challenge us is known, but sometimes it can be easy to forget that stories can ease our fears and help us move through difficult seasons with more courage than we might otherwise be able to muster. Re-writing our stories can also give us a safer way to approach really painful aspects of our history. Books mentioned in this episode The Rock That Is Higher - Madeleine l'Engle The Body Keeps The Score - Bessel Van Der Kolk. Support the show If you woul...
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