Creative women have two qualities that are blessings in their work life but can be a curse in their personal life if not properly understood and both stem from trauma experiences.
We feel deeply and we are drawn to chaos and change.
To be creative requires depth of feeling and a quest for meaning that can not come from a shallow existence.
In its nature art is an expression of what is not always fully visible, a feeling, a knowing, love, something we see but can not always express through words alone or something we see but others do not, something that matters to us that desires to be brought to life in a new way.
Art is an act of devotion to life, honouring and replicating the creative process itself.
To be creative requires vulnerability as we try and fail and build skill.
It requires strength, courage and bravery as we share our work only for it to be criticised, ignored or not satisfy that which we hoped to express.
Being a creative person both deepens our feeling experience and expresses it.
As a creative woman our natural curiosity is part of the creative process.
It requires us to question, search, uncover, experiment... all pass times that disrupt the status quo which will make people uncomfortable as curiosity is the epitome of change and chaos energy.
Curiosity is the white rabbit that leads us to whole new worlds, only the brave and truly courageous dare to even begin to follow.
Like the boundless energy of the adventure seeking child, we can not contain the urge to know and to seek a better alternative through acceptance.
We can only stop this strong urge through following it or acts of force, withdrawal, small or even large acts of violence or coercion or desperate containment.
When we are curious in our nature and when we stifle that curiously it adds, feeds, causes more stress, trauma and struggle in our lives.
It causes us pain.
More so when we are curious about seeking freedom from our pain, suffering and trauma symptoms that we may have also repressed ignored, stifled and contained.
Trauma happens when we experience a deep hurt due to circumstances that happen against our will.
Naturally creative people who experience trauma respond differently that non creatives who do.
For us when we can not explain or fathom or understand the experiences of our life, curiously kicks in and the energy of the trauma is amplified.
We see the Power and possibility of change and we feel the deep impact of what happened to us, even if we are not acknowledged, given the space or support to process it, the depth of the wound can grow and feed many hurtful symptoms.
Anxiety, depression, anger, withdrawal, overwhelm which when our curious mind is denied it's purpose can manifest as long term health issues, chronic pain, neurodiverse disorders and more.
The pain creates the rabbit hole within us and manifests like this because we on subconscious level use our creative mind to try find solutions but we repress ourselves to stop it.
It causes endless confusion and a battle within ourselves we can not win.
Being creative and now confused and in pain and living in what has become our normal chaotic existence we try everything and anything to help when we are not satisfied by the shallow healing options we are offered.
This is when we may spend years moving through one healing modality to the other, exploring the holistic nature of our health.
We might find things that help, for a while, short term fixes or relief or tools that support us but because of our chaotic nature life events happens again and again and we are further or re-traumatised and our symptoms come back.
These states of healing and re-traumatisation can cause us great disruption and discontent but since we are creative and now have some solutions and when channelled well our creative processes, artistry can improve.
We notice that.
We realise (if only subconsciously) that our best work comes from our deep feelings and perceptions and our ability to try and change things and do things differently.
This can become part of our healing process.
When we notice this is when we cam move to the next phase of healing.
To understand and integrate these patterns and skills whilst we withdraw from the chaos of life that hurts us.
What we need to do is look at our selves as our own creation and use the same depth and curiosity as we do with our own creative work.
We need to see and understand the energies, patterns involved and become curious about them but in a more conscious, organised and aware state.
We need to use our explorations wisely to change our responses and choices and experiment with new ways of reacting.
We need to become our greatest work of art.
Through becoming our own creative process we release the binds of the issues we cause.
Then we craft.
We can use all the tools and skills and healing modalities we have learned to really define and master our life as a work of art.
We can integrate our experience with our ideas which happens through embodying and accepting what does work while letting go and releasing what doesn't.
We can master and learn to love and use our depth and chaotic nature to heal.
Most traditional or common therapies don't offer this sort of deep, organised, conscious healing.
We are treat as patients, fixed in little parts, we are gaslit and told we feel too much or think too deeply or create our own drama.
Creative people heal differently.
This is what my mentorship supports.
In my six months programme acknowledging your need for meaning, embracing your depth and curiosity as you recover through your trauma and gain confidence in your creative nature is one of the main things I help creative women with.
We also work through what has worked for you, release what we know doesn't, craft your life in a real grounded way developing your unique life design that allows you to exist without the dramatic energy that causes so much pain while honouring your creative and deep nature.
This is something that helps you forever.
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