The Golden Flower

Making the conscious choice to engage with our creative calling, is for many of us a choice made against the tide of our environment, expectations and societal/cultural norms. Claiming space to explore creative expression is an initiation into expanded consciousness. It is often what catalyses the shift from being a consumer (of reality) to a Creator. Space in our being for holding different persp...

Our Creative Life often doesn't receive the support and attention it deserves. It can feel like we are chasing crumbs of inspiration to keep the sparks from going out. Sometimes we miss out on the deeper conversations that can bridge our everyday lives and the mysteries following our creative callings. It's tough to go it alone. Creating space for accountability and support on the less travelled r...

What’s your intention for your art? Clear intentions beget clear actions. It used to be enough to make art, now we want our art to pay the bills. What happens when our love of the creative process becomes corroded by the expectation of financial reward? Does it still feel good? We know our intentions by the quality of our experience if we are not enjoying our writing, drawing, painting, music maki...

Exploring the Creative Process and the importance of Self Trust. What is your creative process? What are the stages or steps that bring an idea to fruition? A quick Google search will bring up the various 5- 7 step models that describe linear stages of development. How real is this for most creatives? In today’s episode, we share our own creative process (or lack of) and discover what makes a proc...

Why do we get stuck in our Creative Life? It’s pretty easy to tie ourselves in knots trying to think our way out of problems. Creative types think a lot, sensitive, intuitive types think even more. In today’s episode, we explore some of the different ways our own thinking (psychology) can hold us back. Ever heard yourself say the sentence “I just need to …(fill the gap) ‘have more time’ ‘ be in th...

In a society obsessed with identity markers and asking the question ‘Who am I’? We often forget to ask ourselves a more subtle but equally important question - ‘Where am I’? Where am I in relation to my own life trajectory? Do I still want the same things that I once did?  It’s often in times of crisis, we recognize the need to locate ourselves as a first step. How we ‘map’ ourselves in these mome...

Creative expression is an invitation to higher levels of consciousness. But what does the creative journey actually look like? Is there any beginning or end?  It seems the most significant moments only make sense in retrospect. In today's episode, Angela and Gemma share some of the most pivotal moments on their individual creative journey. Both describe the intuitive way they have found their path...

Do we need a Fantasy Life? The images and ideas that emerge from within us, often at odds with reality, are too easy to dismiss. But the inner realm of fantasy shows us our personal mythology, and the archetypes we inhabit. The imagery and symbols of our inner world, have meaning and the capacity to raise our experience above the reductive tyranny of the literal. If we run from our fantasies we mi...

Join us as we explore the role of creative expression in self-development; transmuting difficult feelings and giving a voice to the more suppressed aspects of ourselves. We all struggle with emotional complexity, blocks and mechanisms. Is it possible to initiate a self discovery journey that helps us move through ‘that which is harder to reach’? What kind of creative process could you embark on th...

Resistance ‘that internal force that stops you from showing up as your best’. 'Resistance at the precipice' can be an infuriating place of ‘stuckness’ right when we are on the cusp of a breakthrough. Even though we know how important it is to take risks, let ourselves fail and make mistakes, and grow from the experience, we still get caught in negative, loops, wondering why (tf) is this so difficu...

In today’s episode, we continue the flow from last week, where we began a journey to align with our ‘emergent essence’ and discover where that might take us creatively. Join us as we distill our findings further and find the value that lies beyond the written word and in the realm of the abstract- the language of the soul. Soul Language has the capacity to lead us into the depth of our human exper...

Who Am I? In today’s episode, Angela and Gemma discuss the difficulties of (re)claiming creative identity. Join us as we explore the tension that comes from asking the difficult question “‘who am ?I’” (now) and share stories and exercises that help shift the energy out of overwhelm and into curiosity. To kick us off, Anglea shares the poem by Oriah Mountain Dreamer. A poem written in brilliant def...

Is rebellious energy necessary as a catalyst for creative expression? In today's podcast, Gemma and Angela grapple with the inner and outer dynamics of the Creative Rebel. Join us as we riff on the necessity of ‘pushing back’ and claiming space for our creative spirit. We draw inspiration from Blessed Are the Weird: A Manifesto for Creatives and flow into a lively discussion on why honoring creati...