I recently ran into an old friend, one of my first friends when I moved here, pregnant. It was a very hard time in my life, but this woman was part of a group of women who welcomed me into their meetings. All of them, if I remember correctly, were identifying with Crone energy. I am now entering that stage […]
Exploring The Crone Archetype, Loneliness, Ageing as Isolation and How That Has Been Affecting My Self Expression
Self esteem and @tiktoktraumadoc “Iffirmations”
The past few years I’ve been at the tail end of perimenopause. Hopefully will go into full menopause ANY DAY NOW PLEASE. It really is like going through puberty, so many changes, in every aspect of my life. I saw the video below on TikTok and really loved it. IFfirmations! In the Find Your Joy class I am taking, the […]
Thoughts about Seth Godin on CreateLive
I’m taking an art course called Find Your Joy taught by artist Louise Fletcher. I’m just in the first week. She posted an interview with Seth Godin and much of it is about fear (embedded below). He also recommends that people blog every day. So I’m doing that, badly, but I just want to get into the habit of it. […]
How to deeply explore your inner world
Original, fresh, new, innovative, groundbreaking. Fuck ’em. Find your myths. Find your idols, symbols, guardians, guides, angels, totems, whatever you want to call them. Call them cliches if you want. Find YOUR cliches, and love them, squeeze them and hold them tight. What reoccurs in your dreams? Moments of synchronicity? What image do find yourself spontaneously drawing, even if you […]
Are you fake with your art?
I am in Florida, at the airport, on my way home from two weeks of intensive studio classes for my masters degree. There are so many layers and angles to my experience here…I am still digesting it all, but a theme definitely emerged. During our final discussion for the printmaking class, one of the other students, Annette Saldana, said “just […]
Healing a pesky sub-personality
Sisters, let me tell ya, it has been QUITE the week here. I love summer break, don’t get me wrong. But being home all the time forces me to deal with all the stuff I escaped by going to work. The grand experiment this week is to see what effect creativity has on my ability to deal. And what […]
Is it safe to be real when you are in the public eye?
I am participating in the itty bitty adventure club and my adventure this week was to confront my twitter fears. Okay, I know that seems…a bit tame, but it is ITTY BITTY! Okay?! I’m scared of twitter. It seems fast. And you have to be concise. And some people twitter A LOT. But I am not even at the actual tweet stage. My […]