Tag: creativity
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Voices from the MotherVerse Q & A Series #9: Barbara Bloomfield
“Creativity is a way of sharing, witnessing and celebrating things that can be hidden and personal. It’s a way of metaphorising internal states or states of the collective zeitgeist.” 1. Describe your current family situation I live in suburban Bristol with my partner of 35 years and a young Spanish couple. We have two daughters…
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Voices from the MotherVerse Q & A Series #8: Debbie Manson
“(Creativity) is in the approach of living every day with awareness and intuition as part of consciousness, following the energetic journey of exploration and discovery.” 1. Describe your current family situation I live with my husband in a small village in Central Portugal. My son, 39, now lives in the U.K., having lived here with…
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Voices from the MotherVerse Q & A Series #7: Inês Moura
“Creativity is adaptation, is discovering, is unearthing; and motherhood is all that. It is seeking within the self how to evolve with the situations that life offers.“ 1. Describe your current family situation I live with my partner and our two children, a little girl on the verge of turning seven years old and a…
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Shaking off Stuckness
After reading Lotte Kauffman’s Voices from the MotherVerse Q&A, I started thinking about the ways in which our thoughts can sabotage the creative process. For me, the desire to create comes from a heart and soul level but the mind is incredibly powerful in its ability to distract and undermine. Lotte says that the reason…
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Voices from the MotherVerse Q & A Series #6: Lotte Kauffman
“I think what makes us feel stuck is our limited beliefs. When I am stuck I go inside and often see things like: ‘I want it to be a certain way’… ‘I am not worthy of being creative’, ‘I feel guilty making time for creativity’. When I see this conditioning arising, this is the moment…
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Voices from the MotherVerse Q & A Series #5: Charlotte Alling
“Creativity is as essential as breathing for mothers. Mothering is a creative process that requires all senses, all kindness, all maturity, all perspective. It is ever changing and ever evolving.” 1. Describe your current family situation I am a grandmother, with one daughter and a three year old grandson. We do not live near each…
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Voices from the MotherVerse Q & A Series #4: Moyra Scott
“To be creative is to be utterly in the present and open. It is a form of meditation for me that I find incredibly nourishing on a soul level.” 1. Describe your current family situation I am married with one son who is now 11. 2. In your eyes, what does ‘creativity’ mean and why…
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Voices from the MotherVerse Q & A Series #3: Ellie Greenfield
“The uncertainty of creativity and of mothering are what force me into a state of trust, openness, and humility. Uncomfortable, but worth it in the end.” 1. Describe your current family situation We are a family of four, living in a riverside village in the least populated region of northern England. My husband earns a…
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Voices from the MotherVerse Q & A Series #2: Morgan Nichols
“My creativity allows me to approach mothering in a fresh way and my mothering has massively inspired my creativity, opening me up much more to life and to the importance of each moment…” Describe your current family setup:I have an 11 year old son who has lived with his father since he was 10 (lived…
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Voices from the MotherVerse Q & A Series #1: Mel Parks
“My children keep me grounded, my ideas fresh, encourage me, always know the right thing to say.” 1. Describe your current family situation I live in a village on the edge of a forest with my husband and two kids. 2. In your eyes, what does ‘creativity’ mean and why is it important to you?…
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