Shoehorning in Shoemaking Lessons
As part of their benefits package, the shoe-making elves negotiated a lesson on shoemaking in the ADVENTure calendar, which turned into two actual lessons, one shoe-adjacent fact, and four unlaced claims.
Graham Wallas' '4 Steps of Creativity'
When we look at creativity through the lens of "process", a common framework emerges as stages to research, develop, and implement ideas and solutions.
Shelley Klammer Interview
Learn how professional counseling and expressive art facilitation melds art, psychology, creativity, and spirituality in a creative career.
The Search for Unconditional Love
On a deep level we are angry that we were not unconditionally loved as children, and this anger can saliently block our creativity and our forward creative movement.
Living Into Your Creative Vision
We all have a higher creative vision to live into. We all have inklings that pressure us from the inside, to be lived, and breathed, and created into this world.
The Creativity of Death
Because we live in a world of evidence and facts, most people are very cautious about sharing stories of their personal relationship with the Divine that is ever trying to reveal itself in our daily lives.
Creation is Slow
Growth is slow, the challenge of boredom, the simplicity of presences, acute attention begins in the body, when we accept ourselves we will grow.
Creative Life Force
On creative clearing, exploring intensity, ego (mind) creativity vs. the intuitive (body) creativity of the soul, tamping down the creative life force, and living life as a canvas.
Honesty is Creative
On love, reclaiming dignity, the gift of self-honesty, vulnerability is courageous, and the pitfalls of self-protection from The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer.
Larger Creative Life Patterns
If we choose to do our inner work it becomes possible to open up to the mythic higher self — replete with insights, intuitions and larger visions and plans for our life.
The 30-Day Inner Child Challenge
Inner child drawings are a profound way to access aspects of the emotionally arrested childhood and teenage parts of your psyche that you may not normally pay attention to.
The Creation of the False Self
On our two selves, our problems are the architecture of our personality, the maturity of the true self, the creation of the false self, and we are forever children in our false selves.
Creative Self-Empowerment
To be truly creative and effective in our everyday lives we must cultivate our own empowerment.
The Art of Writing a Book
Reviewing Naomi Rose's Starting Your Book: A Guide to Navigating the Blank Page by Attending to What's Inside You.
Self-Acceptance with Expressive Art
The unconscious contents of our minds comprise everything that we do not accept about ourselves. Life longs to show us what we need to know. You just need to look around you and and inside of you to feel into what your life is showing you.
Blocked Creativity and Blocked Emotions
If you are feeling blocked creatively, what stands between you and your most spontaneous and joyful creativity is your own unacknowledged emotional pain.
Creativity and Dementia
I was delighted to find out that one of the members of my morning art group had been an accomplished sculptor in her life. Her room was filled with abstract wood and soapstone carvings. She could draw and paint like Van Gogh. However, each new art session, she forgot that she was an artist.
Creatively Persist
We are all part of the grand interplay of light and dark. Anything that is left unaccepted inside will be experienced "out there" in the world.
Madam Bedazzle's Tarotble Readings
Halls Deck History + Foreshadow Card
Existing in the Northern Hemisphere at least since the 14th Century, the highly-intuitive, suggestive, The Halls™ Deck is used by skilled practitioners of the Arts and Crafts coterie to interpret, forecast, and crochet symbols, motifs, and typography into affirming messages.
Madam Bedazzle's Tarotble Readings
Slouchy Sock Card
The Slouchy Sock card bestows the wisdom to not give in to the urge to change your creative work too quickly. Learn from an accidental 20th century fashion trend made famous in movie singer Irene Cara says, "used dance as a metaphor for attaining anything in your life that you want to accomplish."
Madam Bedazzle's Tarotble Readings
ChristmaStreess Card
Living on Kaffeklubben Island, Madam Bedazzle says when the North Pole's seasonal sleigh traffic ramps up, so do stress levels. Oh deer‽ Likewise, as Christmas approaches, the end-of-year wrap-up, gift-shopping, ADVENTURE-making, cookie-baking, and holiday-eating will use up your dashes and take its Toll House.
Madam Bedazzle's Tarotble Readings
Fortunately // Unfortunately Card Pair
Madam Bedazzle says there's some important lessons to be had around fortunes and hones in on the common pairing of fortunately // unfortunately in the the game of optimistic one-upping. As always, remember Bedazzle's advice is always well-meaning, even if a little iffy.
Madam Bedazzle's Tarotble Readings
Starchy Seeds Card
Summertime matinees with stocked snack bars has Bedazzle thirsty to address the duality of "starch seeds" and their symbolic significance in handfuls of crunches and munches, which by the way, *are* different things.
Creative Essence
We need to find ways to let go of our regular ways of thinking so that we can participate in life creatively and spontaneously.
Creativity and the Shadow
Working with people with acquired brain injuries has led me to question what is "bad" and what is acceptable.
The Creativity of the Moment
The light dances on the pool and suddenly I understand that it is not what I do and accomplish but my attention to the creativity of the moment that moves and transforms my life.