Flora Bowley is a painter, creative pioneer, gentle guide, and author of two books, Brave Intuitive Painting and Creative Revolution. Blending over twenty years of professional painting experience with her background as a yoga instructor, healer, and lifelong truth seeker, Flora passionately believes creative expression is waiting to unfold within every person who is brave enough more »
What’s the #1 creative block I hear about the most? Perfectionism. This is the dragon that kills more dreams than anything else. It sounds like this: “It doesn’t look how I imagined it would.” “I don’t feel like it was my best work.” “I’m afraid of messing it up.” “I’m still planning.” Too many of more »
Shara Raqs is a dancer, designer and self-taught data scientist who discovered the Creative Feminine Process after observing patterns in nature. She’s also the CEO of WOMB®, a female-focused, quantified-self startup that helps women enter into peak states of creative flow. Dr. Danielle Cornelius is a women’s health chiropractic physician. Her practice is located in more »
Hailed as a “transformational storyteller,” Echo Brown is a writer, performer, & actress from Cleveland, Ohio. Echo’s meteoric rise in the San Francisco art scene with her hit one-woman show, Black Virgins Are Not for Hipsters, has been widely praised. A graduate of Dartmouth College with a B.A. in political science, Echo began her career as more »
For those of us who create a lot or who create professionally, sometimes it’s REALLY easy to get stuck in a rut of creating the same type of thing over and over again. Our paintings all start to look the same. We fall back on the same old layouts. Instead of really engaging with our more »
I have been taking a spiritual creativity class and having some big aha’s around the creative process. I consider myself a pretty creative person, and I hope you do too, because you are. Even if you feel you’re not because you had a bad experience as a child when you colored out of the lines, more »
Some creative blocks are just simple, logistical things and can be eliminated really easily, and some are much deeper and more complex and can take a lot longer to solve completely. Every block can be worked through. Each can be traced back to its roots and dissolved. Every fear can be uprooted and replaced with more »
A few years ago, my best friend had a roommate who was an incredible artist. This artist always seemed to be working on something amazing and her Instagram, Facebook, and blog were always full of beautiful images of her work, her adventures, and her gorgeous self. She was beautiful, talented, stylish, and she had quite more »
It catches you every time. I was sitting there at my desk ready to kill this next project by the end of the day. My mind was prepped and my heart was ready, but there was this cloud of anxiety billowing around my head. Fear. It swept into the crevices of my mind and seeped. more »
Creative cycles are a concept I’m only beginning to explore. It basically comes down to this: There are times when we naturally feel more creative and times when we don’t, and these periods of downtime are when we need to rest and draw in inspiration. These cycles can happen over the period of a few hours, more »
