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Finding Inspiration Everywhere – Interview with Digital Artist Ron Van Alff

by adminAwakened Creator Spotlight, Inspiration, Visual Arts September 2, 2022September 2, 2022No Comments

“Awakened Creator describes me really well, because I started creating art for the first time in my life (in my 40’s) in the same period that I started to awaken!” Today’s Awakened Creator Spotlight is on Ron van Alff, a digital artist, who explores his heartfelt expression through the merging of photography and spiritual intuition. Connect …

Let Your Love Dance Free – Interview with Movement Artist Hilda Stumpf

by adminAwakened Creator Spotlight, Inner Child, Inspiration, Performing Arts August 19, 2022August 19, 2022No Comments

“It’s funny the entire loop back. It’s what always brought me joy at a young age and I just had to find my way back to it.” Today’s first ever Official Awakened Creator Spotlight shines on Hilda Stumpf, a movement artist and intuitive dancer, who embodies the heartfelt authentic expression we aim for here at Awakened …

Have Everything But Still Unhappy? You Might be a Repressed Creative

by adminCreativity, Inner Child, Inspiration June 29, 2022June 29, 2022No Comments

For over a decade I forced myself to deny my heart’s desires and go after career goals and aspirations that had more to do with what other people wanted than what my heart did. I figured, like lots of folks do, if I just check off this list of things (house, job, education, family, etc.) …

The Best Prayer for Creativity: The Awakened Creators Invocation

by adminCreativity, Inspiration, Spirituality, Videos April 27, 2021May 28, 2022No Comments

Listen up, because this is the creative ritual that I engage in before starting any creative project. It really helps me to release self-judgement and open up to creative flow. It is hands down, the best prayer for creativity I have ever used. The Awakened Creators Invocation (aka Creativity Prayer), is super easy to understand …

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4 Concrete Truths Abstract Art Taught Me

by adminCreativity, Visual Arts February 1, 2021May 28, 2022No Comments

I have always wanted to paint. But I never felt comfortable with the medium. Even though I immensely love watercolor paintings, whenever I tried to paint them myself, it just made a smeary mess. And when I tried acrylics, the tiny tubes of paint felt so precious that I had this incredible fear of “wasting” …

3 Powerful Lessons Reclaiming Creativity Taught Me

by adminCreativity, Inspiration January 10, 2021May 28, 2022No Comments

If you would have met me back in 2017, you would think I had everything going for me. I had a partner, a child, and a good paying job. I was even going to graduate school to further my career prospects. But despite appearances, my life was a complete mess. Beneath the surface, I was …

The REAL reason you can’t create (and 5 ways to fix it)

by adminCreativity, Inspiration, Videos December 17, 2020May 28, 2022No Comments

You know the feeling. You pick up the blank paper or canvas, fully expecting to create something amazing, but then nothing happens. You’re completely paralyzed. Your mind starts racing and you think, “I used to be so creative. What happened?” Are you losing your creativity? Is creativity something you can even run out of? Let …

10 Creativity Prompts to Help You Take Creative Risks

by adminCreativity, Inspiration, Journal Prompts April 1, 2020May 28, 2022No Comments

When we feel safe and protected, we are able to move beyond our comfort zones (whether by force or voluntarily) and still feel that we are okay. In human development, this is known as “secure attachment” and the effect of its presence or absence in our childhoods extends far into our adult lives. If we …

3 Family Dynamics that Killed Your Creativity as a Child

by adminCreativity, Inner Child March 11, 2020March 10, 2023No Comments

A child’s capacity for creativity is unbridled. So much so that as adults, we often look to children for inspiration on how to be creative, open minded, and imaginative. But what happens to children whose creativity is not greeted with respect or is in some way inhibited by born-into circumstances? It is likely that those …

5 Signs You’re a Repressed Creative

by adminCreativity, Inner Child, Videos July 4, 2019March 10, 2023No Comments

Are you unsatisfied with life, even though on paper everything seems like it should be fine? Does it feel like no matter what you do or try, you never seem to find that ever elusive fulfillment that you are seeking deep within? If so, you might be a repressed creative. Check in with the 5 …