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For this week’s Soul Thread, I would love to do a community check-in on how creativity is moving through you these days.My hope is to create a space for sharing and resonance, as well as support and advice.
😃 What’s exciting you most creatively these days?
🙅🏾♀️ What’s blocking you?
🥰 What advice or words of wisdom could you offer someone experiencing a block you face/faced? (Either on its own or as a response to someone else’s comment…)
with love & gratitude,
Ayanda
P.S., your comments will also help me align future podcast episodes & YouTube videos to the needs/desires/fears/experiences most alive to you at this time! yay!!! 😁 all my love 💕
im most excited to channel my creativity into creating events for my community. Lately been getting back into writing too and channeling my pain and love into written works.
Blocks for the former have been institutional- getting around the systems that place restrictions on how i can create and host meaningful gatherings. Blocks for the later have been internal with a touch if external- been too exhausted mentally to find energy or motivation to write and too busy to sit myself down and get it all out.
Id recommend anyone facing institutional blocks get creative and reach out for help. For creative blocks… only thing thats worked for me so far is get really fed up with my own inaction and going cold turkey on the habits that arent helping… dont know if thatd work for everyone tho 😂
Creatively I have been moving slow, and I still can't pin point what is the cause of the slow motion, but whenever I create I usually get nice feedback of the work being great but even the compliments don't excite me anymore. Time just keep moving in a blur, it's like I'm always running out of time.
I'm most excited about developing workshops and developmental spaces that combine art and therapy. With this I can do so many creative acts, while also building a compact creative community around me. This along with getting more intentional with my poetry and submitting to publishers is leading me on an evolving journey.
My blocks are definitely mental, so I won't call it a block but more like a gradual process. I've been working a lot on feeling and experiencing my emotions without putting them in my shadow. With this I know I will have new energy and perspectives to write poetry thats true to me.
With mental or emotional blocks I'll always say don't call it a block just because I don't want to trick myself. Creativity is a patience thing, and i never know if I'm not being patient enough. Another thing I'll say is reflecting, or journaling the intentions and effects of said emotions you've been feeling, blocking from yourself, and suppressing. Whatever not expressed becomes repressed. So in it all I've been finding new ways to express my wounds.
im most excited to channel my creativity into creating events for my community. Lately been getting back into writing too and channeling my pain and love into written works.
Blocks for the former have been institutional- getting around the systems that place restrictions on how i can create and host meaningful gatherings. Blocks for the later have been internal with a touch if external- been too exhausted mentally to find energy or motivation to write and too busy to sit myself down and get it all out.
Id recommend anyone facing institutional blocks get creative and reach out for help. For creative blocks… only thing thats worked for me so far is get really fed up with my own inaction and going cold turkey on the habits that arent helping… dont know if thatd work for everyone tho 😂
Creatively I have been moving slow, and I still can't pin point what is the cause of the slow motion, but whenever I create I usually get nice feedback of the work being great but even the compliments don't excite me anymore. Time just keep moving in a blur, it's like I'm always running out of time.
Can definitely understand this
I'm most excited about developing workshops and developmental spaces that combine art and therapy. With this I can do so many creative acts, while also building a compact creative community around me. This along with getting more intentional with my poetry and submitting to publishers is leading me on an evolving journey.
My blocks are definitely mental, so I won't call it a block but more like a gradual process. I've been working a lot on feeling and experiencing my emotions without putting them in my shadow. With this I know I will have new energy and perspectives to write poetry thats true to me.
With mental or emotional blocks I'll always say don't call it a block just because I don't want to trick myself. Creativity is a patience thing, and i never know if I'm not being patient enough. Another thing I'll say is reflecting, or journaling the intentions and effects of said emotions you've been feeling, blocking from yourself, and suppressing. Whatever not expressed becomes repressed. So in it all I've been finding new ways to express my wounds.