“Creativity – like human life itself – begins in darkness.”
~ Julia Cameron
Have you taken the pledge and signed up for my Creative Challenge Project yet? It’s not too late, and hopefully, if you stick with me, by the end of this year you’ll have something finished, a new skill or interest, or a bigger project in progress.
As I encourage you to embrace your creativity in 2013, I’ve had a steady trickle of private messages and emails from people who feel that somehow their creativity has left the building. For some there is a sense of loss, for others a quiet desperation. How do they get their mojo back?
Having been in exactly that dark place at times too, I’m not going to try to jolly you out of your funk (as with depression, it doesn’t work and makes you feel worse!), or make trite statements that are supposed to inspire but that always leave you – the struggling, lost one – feeling lacking and even more useless or stuck. Instead I’m going to have a conversation about the nature of creativity as I have found it. Understanding the creative process has been a source of comfort and personal power for me. And it has allowed me to become far kinder towards myself.
Over the next four weeks, each Monday, I shall look at ways to understand and enhance your creativity, and to nurture this important energy within you.
Even if you are brimful of creative ideas and projects right now, long experience has shown me that there will be times ahead when you struggle with self-doubt, lack of creative direction, low enthusiasm and zero inspiration.
Don’t panic. There are always things that can be done to bring you from that place of stuckness back into flow.
The areas I’ll be covering are:
- Situations where creativity vanishes
- The seasonal nature of creativity
- Ideas for creative replenishment
- Emergency tool kit for blocked creatives
I look forward to our creative collaborative energies this year. I know it can be a magical year for you, and one you will look back on with a sense of fondness and accomplishment. Humans were born to create, and creating is one of the best kinds of soul medicine.
Much love to you, Nicole ♥ xx
Love this. I teach very creative courses like Advertising and writing…we just spend two weeks discussing creativity and ways to make yourself more creative. I look forward to your posts!
Great post. You’ve just made Mondays awesome!
honey at the moment I’m doing 2 jobs, have signed up for adam’s coaching course, and start studying at the end of feb… i think creativity is on the back burner for me for a while unless it’s work based! xo (although sokli will be pleased to hear I’m back into reading novels in my chill time 🙂
Thanks Nicole. Very much looking forward to your wisdom and ideas!! Juliax
Further reinforcement of the corner turned last week. Looking forward to walking alongside you with this.
thank goodness, I feel like I am in this big black blank void! Creativity is being expressed via re-arranging furniture and plants in my home. Enjoy your day in pj’s Nicole xox
Giddy-up!!! I’ve changed my original thought and have decided on creating my own business venture.
What Stacie ⬆ said — woo hoo!
Wow, this will be great! I look forward to reading more!
Me too!!!