What's really up with creative block?

How well do you know yourself?

The Sagittarius full moon is serving us some serious expansion, clarity, and truth this week. I’ve been feeling it by going through the full spectrum of intense highs—full of promise and potential… before crashing down into the depths as I come face-to-face with the shadows of all this potential.

Ultimately, what this is calling out of me is faith.

Not faith that “everything will work out,” but faith that I can navigate through this next chapter in ways that continue strengthening who I am and what I’m becoming.

That kind of faith.

Simultaneously, I’ve become acutely aware of a deep need for camaraderie in this chapter—specifically with people who get it.

People who are navigating some of the biggest stuff of their lives.

People who are standing at the precipice of their own choices and what comes next for them.

People who are making moves that are setting them on a radically authentic path.

For people like us, it’s just not easy to be doing this shit in a silo anymore. So, if you know it would be better together, shoot me a message here. I’d love to get a virtual head count for those of us who are interested in coming together in some way that gives us a place to go where we know two things to be true:

1. Everyone here is navigating some challenging stuff
2. And we don’t have to pretend we’ve got it all figured out

That’s the kind of camaraderie I know I need right now. Maybe you do too.

If we can quit working solely in our silos, I think we’ll have a much better time on this ride, don’t you?

Something to chew on in the meantime

When I mentioned that insight has been dropping in for me in major ways this week, I really wasn’t kidding.

Just a few days ago, I was writing my artist’s statement for a competition where I’m submitting an art piece. A line was in there that said (about my art) “it offers an invitation to see the world through her eyes.”

And I was immediately struck by the contrast. 5 years ago, I don’t think I would have ever described it in that way—letting someone in to see what I see. Because, to be completely honest, I don’t think I had a fully formed perspective TO share. I was truly just starting to meet myself and go on this wild ride of dismantling everything I thought I knew about myself, let alone my creativity.

So, it was in that moment I realized…

That right there is the key to so many things related to “creative block.”

(BTW This idea is still percolating, so bear with me as we unwind this together, rapid-fire style)