Tag: creativity
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What is Magic?
Magic is opening my eyes each morning from my sleeping dreams to the waking dream. It’s the silver stream meandering through mossy rocks in summer time. It’s the wildflowers in early May; the rugged path I walk that cuts through the hillside. Magic is creativity, pure and unbridled, pushing through me with unstoppable force, fuelled…
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There are No Rules
What I love about journaling is that there are no rules. You can choose when, where and how often to write and what form your writing, scribbling or drawing takes. Some people like to commit to writing at regular intervals such as daily or weekly or to record the main events or themes of a…
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Love & Resentment
I recently became aware of ‘Create Like a Mother‘ – a US based blog from writer, Katherine Fusco, with a focus on motherhood and creativity. It includes a growing series of interviews with creative mothers, similar to those featured in JourneySongs’s Voices from the MotherVerse. The first line of the opening post of the blog,…
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Voices from the MotherVerse Q & A Series #15: Roshnii Rose
“I have an insatiable need to express myself, to put down what is going on for me or flowing through me. To suppress it would be unhealthy and ultimately damaging.” 1. Describe your current family situation I am blessed to be in a happy, healthy marriage of 13+ years. I have two sons, aged 10…
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Voices from the MotherVerse Q & A Series #14: Tamzin Hale Hurley
“I love to keep a sense of play in my life, to say yes, to take chances, not do the obvious, question everything and play in everything! It keeps me feeling alive and connected.” 1. Describe your current family situation I have been married to a beautiful man for 13 years and have 3 children…
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What Pressure does to our Creative Flow
The highs and lows of 7 days of a new journaling practice. I recently committed to taking a new slant on my journaling practice, inspired by Benjamin Hardy, a writer I have recently started following on Medium. The agreement I made with myself was to ask my subconscious for guidance before falling asleep at night…
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Voices from the MotherVerse Q & A Series #12: Karolina Dumala
“To me, beauty, love and life are the purpose of our time here. ‘Make beauty together’, is my motto really.” 1. Describe your current family situation I am a mother of a 10 year old home educated boy, Antek. 2. In your eyes, what does ‘creativity’ mean and why is it important to you? Creativity…
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Early morning Journaling – Capturing the gifts of the Sub-Conscious
Last night, before falling asleep, I tried something that I don’t remember doing before. I asked for my dreams to bring me clarity on what to focus on the following day. Sure enough, when I woke up this morning, I recalled two significant indications that had arisen during my dream state. One was not so…
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Voices from the MotherVerse Q & A Series #11: Celine West
“When I had my daughter, I felt the rebirth of my creative and true emotional self. I rediscovered that vibrant energy and the need to create. I also felt the fears fall away: I had just given birth and was responsible for a whole other person, writing a story was a piece of cake.” 1.…
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Voices from the MotherVerse Q & A Series #10: Alexis Blenkarn
“..it often feels like my creativity and mothering are in competition with one another. There are the practicalities of motherhood, and my familial responsibilities…and then there is the impracticality of wanting to ditch it all so that I can talk to no one, immerse myself in a writing, music, or art project, and dig into…
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