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Navigating State-of-the-World Anxieties with Compassion
We want to be in control, but we are not in control of so many things. We can try to let go, but simultaneously we don’t want to, or we simply can’t. What we can do is channel our difficult (and valid!) feelings into support for each other and ourselves.
Sustaining Wonder in Your Creative Practice
I like to think of wonder as an activated process, one that urges us to leave space for what a thing is to itself and to approach each thing, as best we can, as it understands itself. This is a process that attempts to avoid categorization and determinate thought. It exists from a position of being in thinking as an act of acceptance and as a process of being with. This process is okay with never knowing, and it cultivates an awareness and acceptance of staying on the open side of knowing if knowing starts to take shape.
How To Be Flexible
The interesting thing is that the more mental flexibility we have the more welcoming we are to emotional diversity. And, when we welcome emotional diversity, we can respond in more flexible ways to all of the difficult and wonderful and uncomfortable inputs we are receiving throughout the day, every day.
My Year End Top Ten
What do you need the end of the year and start of the next to be? What do you want it to be? If you are like me, I want it to be EVERYTHING, and I need it to be SUPER relaxing. Hence, a list of gentle reminders for mental well-being!
Reflections on the Motivations to Be an Artist
The motivations to be an artist are perhaps easily identified on the surface, though quite complex when a multitude of internal and external factors are considered.
To Feel Understood
It can be vital to the therapeutic alliance for artists to feel understood in their identity as artists and the contemporary challenges that they face by those who counsel them through difficult feelings and experiences.