Description

This week's episode of the Prosperous Empath® gets to the heart of how to access your creativity to overcome hardship and build an aligned life. I sit down with Carey Kirkella, an award-winning photographer for purpose-driven brands and the creator of The L.E.N.S. Method™, to have a conversation about mental health, regulating your nervous system, and sparking your creative expression. Carey shares her story of living with bipolar disorder and experiencing postpartum psychosis and how she channeled her lived experience into creative self-expression. What if we go through life experiences - and even hardships - to ultimately use them as means to create, tell stories, and heal? As Wayne Dyer once said, "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change". I hope this conversation helps you shift your perspective, become more creative, and generate more abundance in your life. Enjoy!

Topics:

• Living with mental illness and how you can transform your hardship into creative expression to find a deeper purpose
• How to connect with your art and self-expression to tell your story as an empath and a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)
• Shifting your perspective to experience life through a lens of deep gratitude, love, and creativity 
• How to regulate your nervous system and look for creative responses instead of reacting to your circumstances
• How to start seeing your sensitivity as a superpower instead of a weakness

Episode Resources:

• Join us on February 12th at 12pm ET for our monthly Non-Networking Power Hour for Empath Entrepreneurs with our UNBOUNDED Mastermind Community for deep connections and meaningful support.
• The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self by Martha Beck
• How to Create Your Visual Gratitude Journal Using the L.E.N.S. Method (Smartphone Camera-Friendly) 
• Wayne Dyer Quote: If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change
• L.E.N.S. Method Foundation Workshop 
• Virginia Woolf Quote: I am rooted but I flow

Connect with Carey:

• Website 
• LinkedIn 
• Instagram: @careykirkella 
• Facebook 

Connect with Catherine:

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• Instagram
• YouTube
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Work with Catherine:

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Visit this episode's full show notes page here.

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The Prosperous Empath® Podcast is produced by Heart Centered Podcasting.