With today's episode I bring you something new! Firstly, check out my sick intro with background music and sound effects :)

I also have a returning and still special guest with today's episode, Liv Arcangeli the creativity coach and we're discussing creative blocks. Follow up to our first interview together titled:

Cultivating Sustainable Creativity with Special Guest Liv Arcangeli

We're back with more to say on creativity, Now that we've covered how to cultivate more of it, we discuss how to keep it from slipping away. Our subtopics for this episode include, creative blocks, where creativity comes from and what's the stem, thorn and rose bud to our respective current creative journeys.

We discuss real fears as a creative person as well as an entrepreneur and where the blocks seem to stem from like the fear of whether or not you can succeed transforms into a fear of your success being taken away.

Did you know creative blocks are a taboo topic? I didn't. We also have a make a major right turn towards genetics and biology before going back to our regularly scheduled programming.

Liv helps people move through creative blocks and embody their creative potential, she covers what exactly a creative block is and how she helps her clients move through it with her system within this episode, get your pencils out ✏️

Her system moves you through your foundations, your vision, your mindset, your practice that helps you feel connected, a system of inspiration and your community.

We discuss how her system resembles a hierarchy of needs yet she sees it as a circle, which I love because it allows you to look at the pie chart of your life and address more slices than one at a time. If you want a quick and dirty way to unblock your creativity: Liv says look at your foundations. Address your needs with sleep, food, social time, rest, your friggen posture, all of these little things that keep you human are the best medicine to inspire your creativity. When you're feeling blocked it's likely because your needs aren't being met.

Where does creativity come from? Identify where you find new ideas, like in the shower or going for a walk, you can start to notice your ideas. Or, perhaps you're like me and you have no issue with having ideas, but you struggle more with executing your ideas,

How do we nurture ourselves in order to cultivate a creative career, in order to ensure we have enough inspiration and execution juice to consistently produce effective work?

Liv says make an effort to live in a rest and digest state, as in the anti-fight or flight or some may call somatic state. Make time for the things that bring you joy so that you can tap into a space of stillness in order to find the impulse within that drives us to create. When you are more rested and you have inspiration, your execution flows from the nourishment of your rest.

As a creative mind we rework things, we problem solve. I go on a tangent about reinvention, creative entrepreneurs are reinventors, constantly innovating the status quo in order to evolve the norm, whereas recreational creation is a journey to tap into the soul. How creation is like boot camp for a rogue narrator dictating the story of your life, where you teach your narrator to be gentle within the process of reworking your creation.

We discuss energy and flow and routine, and how creativity can live within the boring mundane, and it can also live in disrupting routines. It can be anything, it's the life force that runs through us, we access it through nature and through our breath.

If you're working through your creative droughts, chill on it and allow the process to take course, and allow yourself to explore new mediums of creation.

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