Protect Your Creative Life
Channel: Jae Schaefer
Date: 2023-05-15

Struggling to create? Feeling lethargic? Like you can't - and will never again - make it to your laptop/instrument/blank canvas? 

There could be poison in your creative life. 

"Our connection to meaning, passion, soulfulness, and the deep nature is something we have to keep watch over." 

I'm reading "Women Who Run with Wolves" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes atm. Ms Estes talks about the creative power in women - the Source of our prowess, power and nourishment - as being like a vast river we need to keep watch over. 

Without it, we are lost. We feel listless and flighty, unable to focus or stay with anything in our lives long enough to bring it to completion.

We give in to the complexes - voices and feelings of fear, doubt and self-loathing - that plague us and try to keep us from doing our work.

So how do we carry on? How do we protect the river? 

- Take stock of what a contaminated river has cost you. What have your complexes distracted you from? What creative projects were killed off before they had a chance to live?

- Protect your time. Your ideas. Your spark of joy, wonder and imagination. These are all essential nutrients that keep the river clear.

- Gather friends who love and respect your work. Keep close to the people (other women especially) who will be there to reaffirm your own dedication and support your commitment.

- Be unavailable for anything - within or without - that seeks to undermine the worth of your work.

In this video, I take a dive into each of the above, and more, including... 

Moving forward without losing ourselves to hopelessness and despair, and finding the strength to stand up to the inner critic.

Safeguard what is important to you. 

Protect the creative life force that nourishes and enriches you, and the lives of those around you. 

You are worthy of protection.

Send out the wolves. 

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