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The Golden Flower#13 The Creative Journey; A Rite of Passage?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 perspectives is perhaps the peak arc of the creative journey, denoting flexibility within the mind; letting go, shedding skin, and the capacity to keep changing our minds (over and over again).2024-07-2926 minThe Golden Flower#13 The Creative Journey; A Rite of Passage?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 perspectives is perhaps the peak arc of the creative journey, denoting flexibility within the mind; letting go, shedding skin, and the capacity to keep changing our minds (over and over again).2024-07-2926 min
The Golden Flower#12 Support Your Creative JourneyOur 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 road was the guiding force for Angela and Gemma teaming up to create the Golden Flower Podcast. We both agree that our deep dive conversations have been a touchstone and catalyst in keeping creative...2024-07-0723 min
The Golden Flower#11 Is Your Creative Life For Sale?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 making…etc are we asking too much from it?In today’s episode, we discuss how goals, desires and intentions may overlap but are distinct from one another...2024-06-2352 min
The Golden Flower#10 The Creative Process and The Role of Self-TrustExploring 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 process successful or not. As we talked, the theme of self-trust showed up as the foundation of the individual process. Whether you are comfortable knowing and nav...2024-05-2746 min
The Golden Flower#9 Ways Creatives Trap Ourselves in Our Own PsychologyWhy 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 the mood’ ‘make more money’ ‘work harder’ ‘do more research’ These kinds of statements masquerade as self-awareness and self-responsibility, when they are in fact a heavy condition weighing u...2024-05-2046 min
The Golden Flower#8 Where Am I? Is My Dream Still My Dream?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 moments impacts the level of self-inquiry. In today’s episode, we discuss the role of Intuitive Creative exercise when it comes to facing up to diff...2024-04-2639 min
The Golden Flower#7 The Creative Journey | Why Intuition Is So ImportantCreative 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 and how each stage brought deep change and transformation into their life.Angela a writer and digital artist tells us how her return to the U.S from Japan was the catalyst f...2024-04-0253 minThe Golden Flower#6 Fantasy Life and Why We Need It- Imagination and Collective DreamingDo 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 miss the alchemical forces that shape us into what we really are. We must find a way to honor the symbolic life internally. No matter how...2024-03-1851 min
The Golden Flower#5 Creatvity as Self DevelopmentJoin 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 that would give you full permission to be as intense as necessary?This Week's Challenge: Amplification! Interface with your emotions through your creative expression. Intensify your drama! More, more, more...2024-03-0445 min
The Golden Flower#4 Resistance At The PrecipiceResistance ‘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 difficult???!! Why, when we want something so much, is there so much pushback? If you feel a fog of fatigue engulf you as you bring to mind the different ways you...2024-02-2152 min
The Golden Flower#3 Soul Language: How Our Essence SpeaksIn 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 experience, It is our invitation to return to a unique unfolding of ourselves with appreciation for our inner world. The soul does not thrive in a f...2024-02-0543 minThe Golden Flower#2 Who Am I? - Reclaiming The Creative IdentityWho 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 defiance to the numbing question that seems to dominate social interactions “what do you do?”Creative expression is deeply personal. It stands to reason that there is often confusion between who we...2024-02-0539 minThe Golden Flower#1 Creativity as An Act of RebellionIs 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 creativity is not vital to our own self-exploration but is an integral part of re-envisioning humanity. Gemma goes back 15 years to a pivotal moment that was the catalyst for...2024-02-0538 min