Is the Weight of the World Blocking Your Creative Work?

There is so much going on in the world right now that is hard and painful and needing healing. It is heavy.

And you really really want to offer what you can in your creative work to make it better. You want your creative work to matter in relation to the topics and issues that you care the most about.

This is a ton of pressure to ask of yourself.

It would not be surprising at all if you feel stuck behind this stuff. Great ideas and lots of inspiration, but when you sit down to do the work, it is not flowing out of you.

This is the thing: in order for you to work from your heart, you need to get past your anxiety and pressure, you need to let go of the thinking mind and all the analysis, clarification and problem solving that you are spinning with.

Those things are good and have their place, but in order for you to get to the deeper creative work that is truly healing for our culture, it needs to come from your heart.

This means inviting play and pleasure.

I know it sounds counter intuitive, but the access to the creative unconscious is through play and pleasure.

Letting yourself enjoy the way the words sound, the way melodies dance, the way colors play on the page and clay feels in your hands. And following what is compelling is the way to enter.

The stuff that matters to you is going to be there and you will find a new way to understand them by allowing your creative play to take over.

You can trust the process.

If you are an artist or creative who works from the heart and cares about making your work matter, I invite you to come to my winter workshop. It will be a way to come home to yourself and open your channels of creativity.

Taproot Winter Workshop
February 17th from 1:00 to 3:00pm or 6:00 to 8:00 pm EST
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