Ep #198: Energy First: The Secret to Creating with Ease

When it comes to welcoming ease and flow into your creative process, there’s something that might currently be missing: energy. The energy I’m talking about has the power to both enhance your end result as well as enrich your experience of the process. So, in this...

Ep #197: The Case for Beauty

In this week’s episode, I want to make a case for beauty. I’m presenting a case for how your relationship to beauty can help you to more deeply trust your own instincts while unleashing and nurturing your creative genius, and how embracing beauty can help you...

Ep #196: Creature Mode: How to Nourish Your Creative Process

Last week, I introduced you to the concept of Creature Mode: the solution to the idea that, in the modern world, we are too often taught that the creative process is something that just happens in our heads, denying that the rest of us is involved. Oftentimes, we only...

Ep #195: Creature Mode: How to Stop Playing Safe

“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for 100 miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.” – Mary Oliver. Woven into the design of the Art School process is that you have...