Surrender to Creativity

Welcome to Season 3!

To kick things off we are having a chat about one of the core requirements to be a creative: surrendering to creative flow.

Creativity energy doesn't always show up on a schedule, but we can learn to work with it so that it begins to show up when we need it to. 

Ultimately, your creative energy should be viewed as a partner - a partner that is there for you when you need it to be.

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Alrighty, so we are on to season three. I want to say before I get into today's session that I went through a process a few weeks ago that really changed me. For about three years now, I've been really working on myself. And that's not to say that I was working on myself to better myself, but I was working on myself to uncover and heal all the trauma that I had sustained as a child and a teenager. And a few weeks ago, I really got to the core of it. I was actually finally able to put a label to what happened to me, which was surreal because finding that label really helped form a blueprint of who I was and why I did what I was doing. And because I finally had that label and understanding of what happened to me, I was able to process the trauma of my childhood in a way I'd never been able to process it before. And I'm someone who processes things very quickly, and I've been doing this for so long, and I've got so many tools, and I'm quite happy. Well, not happy, but I'm content sitting with the feelings that I need to shift something. So you may have noticed somewhere along the Twilight series that something in me has changed. You can probably tell by the way I'm speaking and probably just showing up that there is a slight difference in me. And I didn't want to address it then because I was just gonna I just wanted to say focus on the Twilight 50 Shades thing, but I wanted to say something now just so moving forward, you don't think you're going crazy if you have noticed that difference. And I just want to say that that difference is purely because I was able to unravel something terrible that happened to me as a child, and I was able to process it and heal from it. And in doing so, I oh my cat has an opinion on it. I was able to actually uncover who I really am without all that baggage. I think, well, I know most people in the world are running on programs that have either been passed to them by their parents or society. They might have inherited it through family lines. And when you have that, when you have all these programs attached to you, you're never really being a chance to be you. You're just the real you is just tucked under all these layers of programs and beliefs. And I'm at a point now where I feel like I actually have found the core of me underneath all that, and I'm learning to express my true self and show up in the world in a way that aligns with who I really am. So I just wanted to say something about that, just so you're not sitting there thinking you're going mad that there's a bit of a difference. There is a difference, and I am still finding my feet in this new identity that I found. And I just wanted you to know that. Um, I actually planned out the whole year, whole of 2026, for this podcast back in January. And it was funny because I got to May, and for some reason I just wanted a two-week gap. I didn't even really have a reason for it or need to, but I just was like, nope, I need a two-week gap. And then I went through this profound change, and um that change kind of started to come through towards the talent of season two, and I was like, huh. Some part of me knew that this was coming, and we needed this break to kind of really help transition the old me to the new me. And voila, here we are in season three with the real me. I shouldn't say the new me, the real me. Anyhow, this episode is all about surrendering to creativity. I have previously mentioned in the last two seasons about how creativity is a flowing energy, and it really requires us as people to work with that flow. And if you've been listening to the previous seasons, you're probably at a point like, bitch, please shut up about this, but no, I shall not, because we live in a very rigid society, and creativity's energy, like I said, is flow. And the problem is with a society that is as rigid as it is, is that it generally tries to squish and minimize any type of flow. It really just tries to cage it in. And so the reason why I keep going on about it is because if that is the rigid structure that we are born into, it is going to be very difficult for you to tap into that flow. You're gonna get a lot of barriers internally and externally. And I just want to acknowledge that not only is that a difficult thing to overcome, but it's also perfectly normal. Working with that flowing creative energy takes work, it takes time. And the biggest thing it requires from you is to surrender to it. Creativity is a force that you have to learn to surrender to. You can't touch it or reach for it, but it's just there. That is creativity, and it gets snuffled a lot in our society because it is very rigid and goal-oriented and money-focused, and so what I what my prime message is if you are struggling with tapping into your creative energy, and you are struggling to find a way to fit it into your life, just surrender to it. Surrender to the creative energy, surrender to the hardship, the hurdles. Don't fight it. Creativity requires you to surrender so much of yourself. And it is a very unique lifestyle if you want to inhabit it full-time. Like I said, it's a flowing energy. You are gonna, you're not gonna be working within the nine to five range if you are a full-time creative, you'll have to learn, which is something I have struggled with for a very long time, and only I want to say in the last few months have succeeded in mastering. You'll have to learn to inhabit your days with flow. You will have, you will not have the nine to five structure if you are working as a creator full-time. If you are not working as a creator full-time, and you are trying to do your creativity on the side of a rigid work routine. I want to say that it's more difficult, but in some ways I don't think that's necessarily true. I mean, I know there is difficulty in the fact that you're balancing your energy with your workplace and then trying to have enough energy for your creativity, and that's something for another discussion. But I I've done that before. I've worked, I've lived the whole, you know, rigid work hours and then creative after hours. And all I can say is that as much as creativity is a flowing energy, you can also teach it when to show up. When I was working full-time, I would actively use my lunch breaks to go to a cafe and write, and I would sit down and write after work. And I created this routine with my creativity. I showed up to it at specific times of my day. And because I did, it was always there waiting for me to inject that flowing energy within me to help me get the most of that time. I know this all sounds very wishy-washy, but we need wishy-washy to five the rigidity and structure of our days. That's the only way you can wipe away a little bit of that to harness this incredible energy that will really just help you to expand your creative work. And I do think that if you start looking at creativity like it's a fluid energy that can show up and work for you, as opposed to something that you have to get done, like you have to write 500 words, or you have to draw that outline for that picture, or you have to knit to that scarf. If you treat creativity like it's a fluid energy that can pop up for you when you need it to, you'll go into your creative sessions with a really different mindset, and the process will feel different. It's less likely to leave you exhausted and in fact leave you feeling revived because you approached it as though you were showing up with a partner at your side. And I think that's essentially how creative energy should be looked at. It should be looked at as an invisible force, an invisible partner that is there to guide you and show up for you. All you've got to do is surrender to its existence. That's it.