What is your relationship with creativity and self love?

Sometimes I feel like I am sitting in a pressure cooker. I put so much stress on myself to get it right, to make it really good, to overdeliver. The self-induced tension makes me:

1. Suffer

2. Procrastinate

3. Avoid the work that could be giving me satisfaction and fulfillment

4. Never feel good enough

Are you so focused on being excellent & pleasing everyone that you cause yourself harm? I’m sure your people pleasing and perfectionism has gotten you far. These survival mechanisms run deep and have had their perks, BUT AT WHAT COST? 

Are you ready to break that shit up? Are you ready to put down all forms of self punishment no matter the result of your product?  What would it mean to you to have less self inflicted pressure to be right, good, liked, or perfect? What would it mean to you to find value in yourself regardless of the product you create? Want to find out? 

Join my 8 week journey, called “Let’s Play.” This master class on play is a culmination of 10+ years of teaching and studying creativity.

I bring to this course a masters in Art Education (I wrote my masters thesis on how to cultivate creative mindsets!!!), 10+ years of teaching art in elementary schools, 10+ years of meditation and yoga study, and I am a certified ontological coach! 

Have you ever seen a kindergartener making art before? How they splash down paint and attack the page with so much JOY and CONFIDENCE. Without judgement, without comparison to their peers, they delight themselves as they create marks. That inner child is our true nature and it still exists inside of you! 

For the last ten years, I’ve been an art teacher observing elementary school students freely create art. I secretly felt pangs of jealousy and sadness as I sat down to create my own art and did not share the same experience as my kid gurus. Sitting in front of my blank canvas, I faced self doubt and really hurtful critical self talk. Sometimes it was so loud that I'd rather just not make anything at all then be with that inner voice. I noticed that this didn’t just show up in my art making process but this self judgment followed me around everywhere. 

So I have been on a quest to set free my inner artist and that child-like quality of self approval and delight. Through my journey I have made some serious progress and I measure my progress as enjoyment, self love, confidence, and greater authenticity.  Now I share this work with you through an 8 week play master class and support group. 

I am a stand for play. I stand for unconditional self love.  I am a stand for breaking up with the conditioned ways I have learned to feel valuable because I just AM.