The Conscious Creative

Knowing When To Give Your Creative Work Breathing Room 🌿

I know you know the feeling…
 
One moment you’re focussed and flowing in your creative practise, and the next you meet a fierce and seemingly impenetrable wall of frustration.
 
All of a sudden you feel stalled, stifled and annoyed at yourself for losing the rhythm. Then you experience an urge… an urge to force your way through it; to fight and force and will yourself back into rhythm. But the more pressure you place on yourself and your creative energy, the more blocked, frustrated and disconnected you feel. It becomes a cycle of contraction that continues to tighten and close in the more we force ourselves to keep pushing through.
 
But what if… instead of trying to force our way through the self-criticisms and self-judgements that arise when we feel creatively frustrated and blocked, we choose to give our creative work breathing room?
 
What if we offered our creative hearts the grace of patience, spaciousness and the act of slowing down?
 
What if giving your creative work breathing room, could actually be the most healthy and healing way of nurturing authenticity, intentional truth, conscious and boundaried freedom, as well as rhythmical flow and integrity within our sacred creative expression?
 
Love Stephanie
xx
 
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Returning To Rest and Reclaiming Our Cyclical Wisdom with Jemma Thompson {Part Two} 🍃

Welcome to part two of our conversation on “Returning To Rest and Reclaiming Our Cyclical Wisdom”, with my ethereal and kindred soul sister… Jemma Thompson.
 
Within the divine and delicious second half of this special episode, we will be deepening into the reasons we {especially as women} resist and diminish our need for rest. Jemma will be shining a light on the guilt, anxiety and deep shame we feel towards rest, and why women feel that rest is something to be earned. Jemma will bring forward the significance of having positive modelling when it comes to embracing healthy, embodied rest… and the importance of witnessing other women reflect to us the way we want to be and live.
 
We will also be touching on the ways in which women can nurture an awareness of our unique needs when it comes to rest; how we can more easefully and compassionately give ourselves permission to rest, and learn to honour and celebrate the nuances of our inner rhythms {instead of working against them}.
 
Jemma will also be holding space on the microphone for a little solo segment, where she will be exploring seven different forms of rest, expanding on the purpose of these different forms, and how each unique way of resting tends to a different layer of our being.
 
Ultimately… this conversation is a gateway to revealing and reclaiming the beautiful {ancient} knowing that true rest is holistic. That when we are honouring rest we are not only honouring ourselves, but we are creating a more harmonious and conscious relationship with life.
 
Love Stephanie
xx
 
Connect with Jemma:
 
Instagram: @jemma__paige
 
Jemma’s Book Recommendations: “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron and “The Relaxed Woman” by Nicola Jane Hobbs
 
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Returning To Rest and Reclaiming Our Cyclical Wisdom with Jemma Thompson {Part One} 🌺💫

In this special two-part guest episode of "The Conscious Creative", I am joined by one of my dearest friends and soul sister Jemma Thompson, for an enlightening, elevated and emotionally soothing conversation on returning to rest and reclaiming our cyclical wisdom.
Gorgeous Jemma is a certified Holistic Health Coach, Menstrual Cycle Coach, and gentle space holder for the heart and soul. She creates warm, soulful spaces where women can come home to themselves through rest, presence, ritual, and cyclical wisdom. As the creator of "Cocoon", her online women’s circles, Jemma guides women into deeper connection with their inner seasons, helping them to honour their bodies, emotions, and intuitive rhythms. With a deep reverence for slowness and the sacredness of everyday life, she weaves together body-based practices, journaling and ritual to support women in softening into who they truly are. Jemma’s work is a tender invitation to step away from the noise of the world and return to the quiet knowing within.
 
In Part One of this gently rebellious conversation… Jemma will be illuminating her pathway towards reclaiming rest, sacred self-connection and presence, and sharing her unique journey of coming home to her natural inner rhythms by embodying the ancient wisdom of cyclical living. Together we will be exploring the layered landscape of rest; how rest is a return to deep presence and replenishment… a reclamation of softness, safety and self-sovereignty within our whole being. We will be touching on why rest is the secret to creating from a place of fullness and flow, and how it replenishes the well from which inspiration, clarity and our true authentic expression can blossom from. Jemma will also be deepening into the nature of cyclical wisdom, addressing the powerful relationship between rest and reclaiming this sacred ancestral way of living and being.
 
I hope the essence of this episode stirs within you a recognition of something needed… and I hope your gentle heart is open to receiving all the wonder, light, honesty and courage from our conversation today… like a honeybee relishing the nectar of a flower in full bloom.
 
Love Stephanie
xx
 
Part Two Coming Thursday 11th September 💫
 
Connect with Jemma:
 
Instagram: @jemma__paige
Jemma’s Book Recommendations: “In The Flo” by Alisa Vitti and “The Relaxed Woman” by Nicola Jane Hobbs
 
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What Happens When You Keep Putting Off Your Creativity 🍂

There are several things that happen when we become trapped in a pattern of abandoning our creative work {or delaying our creative calling entirely}.
 
🍂 The first is the emotional exhaustion that comes with abandoning your creative vision over and over again.
 
🍂 The second is the subtle and invisible layers of distrust that build within us each time we desert our ideas. Because in turning away from something that deeply matters to our hearts… we’re chipping away at our confidence, self-trust and self-belief a little bit at a time.
 
🍂 The third is that in this constant cycle of starting and stopping… nothing is ever finished. Nothing is ever brought to fruition.
 
The most devastating part of abandoning our creative vision {or putting it off completely}, is not because we lack the passion, the determination or the desire to bring it into the world… but because our belief that we can’t do it is stronger than our intuitive knowing that we can.
 
Have a listen to this episode if you’re ready to finally breakaway and move beyond this pattern of creative abandonment… and step into the creative integrity, self-loyalty, confidence and fulfilment you so deeply desire and deserve.
 
Love Stephanie
xx
 
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Honouring The Divine Timing of Your Creative Work… And Why It’s Never Perfect ⏰💫

There will never be a "perfect time" for your creative work. But when the desire is alive within your heart to venture into a journey of bringing your vision to fruition… do you consciously choose to honour the call of your own divine {creative} timing?
 
This special episode of "The Conscious Creative" is a compilation of three previous episodes, all of which explore three inherent creative values… balance, instinct, and patience. Together we will be touching on why these three values support the natural unfolding of our authentic heart expression.
 
🌱 Episode 10.) Balancing Your Everyday World with Pursuing Your Creative Vision
🌱 Episode 16.) Channelling Your Creative Instincts
🌱 Episode 18.) The Importance of Patience In Pursuit Of Our Highest Potential
 
Join me for this fun and thought-provoking episode, where we’ll be illuminating the power that comes with honouring what needs to be expressed, and not resisting or dismissing the pull of our own divine {creative} timing.
 
Love Stephanie xx
 
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Shifting From Self-Criticism To Self-Compassion In Your Creative Practise 🌱

One of the greatest areas of concern for my “Creative Power” clients when it comes to nurturing their creative expression with confidence, courage, and deep self-trust… is the vulnerability of exploring new layers of authenticity in their creativity, and the deep fear of being seen in their creative truth for the first time.
 
Within this insightful and gentle episode, we will be looking at the ways in which our vulnerability and fear of being seen can perpetuate feelings of self-doubt, self-criticism, self-judgement and shame in our creative practise, and how these feelings can then hold us {and our creative potential} captive in an uncomfortable cycle of stagnancy, resistance, perfectionism, procrastination and creative anxiety.
 
In order to experience the authenticity, confidence, courage, and easeful self-trust we so deeply desire in our creative expression, we have to learn to embrace our vulnerability, our fears, and our resistance in a way that still allows our hearts {and our creativity} to feel safe, seen, and sacredly supported.
 
Have a listen to this episode where I will be sharing of my simple suggestions for how you can nurture safety, authenticity, confidence and deep trust in your creative practise, and bring your creative vision to life with greater intention and ease… while also feeling vulnerable 🌷🍃
 
Love Stephanie
xx
 
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Business As A Sanctuary For Creative Exploration

Together we have arrived at a really wonderful and special milestone… for today we are celebrating the beautiful 30th episode of the podcast!! And later this month I will also be celebrating my 3rd Business Birthday!! 🍰 🎉✨
 
Much like the creative process writing my poetry collection "Once Were Wounds" served as my private haven and sanctuary of soul sustenance… my business has been a beautiful and nourishing safe harbour for me over the past three years; my vessel for sacred self expression and storytelling.
 
Within this heartfelt and reflective episode, I will be sharing some of my celebrations and learnings from three years in business… as well as the purpose and why behind the creation of my business.
 
It’s a privilege to honour and share my voice here… and to offer you loving guidance towards finding and expressing your unique voice as well.
 
Love Stephanie
xx
 
P.S. “The Conscious Creative” will be taking an intentional mid-season pause, and will return with a fresh instalment of energising and soul nourishing conversations in July! 🎙💫 
 
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Celebrating Simplicity, Sensuality and Sacred Self-Care Rituals with Jasmine Fuller

Within this special guest episode of The Conscious Creative we are joined by the warm and wonderful Jasmine Fuller for an enchanting conversation celebrating simplicity, sensuality and sacred self-care rituals.
 
Magical Jasmine is the founder, formulator and beating heart of "Paradise Bay Botanicals" - a sacred skincare brand inspired by her love of flowers and self-care rituals. Formerly a florist and flower shop owner, Jasmine’s deep connection with nature blossomed into creating organic skin and hair products that promote a healed body, harmonious mind and an enlivened spirit. She’s also a multi-talented artist and devoted homeschooling Mum to her two sweet sons, Astro and Aura. Through her self-expression, Jasmine invites us to embrace simplicity, seek joy and to create time for quiet, reflective, ceremonial moments for ourselves.
 
During this delightful and heartwarming episode, Jasmine will be sharing her innate passion for natural living and uncovering how her sensual fascination for fragrance, colour and texture naturally guided her from floristry into skincare formulation. Jasmine will be revealing a glimpse into her intuitive and playful creative process… beginning with where she receives her sparks of inspiration, and how she alchemises her abundance of ideas into physical form. We will also be touching on the power of re-sourcing ourselves and our creative energy through devotional ritual… illuminating the resonance, self-reconnection and holistic wellbeing that can be nurtured by honouring our skin with intentional care and respect.
 
Finally, Jasmine will be sharing her inspiring journey of coming home to her skin, embodying her inner goddess with love and compassion, as well as expressing her desire to be an example of pure freedom… and to give all women permission to live in alignment with their own heart radiance and highest joy by embracing intentional, sacred skincare from the Earth.
 
Love Stephanie
xx
 
Connect with Jasmine:
 
Instagram and Facebook: @paradisebaybotanicals
 
Website: www.paradisebaybotanicals.co.nz
 
Jasmine’s Book Recommendation: “Survival In The 21st Century: Planetary Healers Manual” by Viktoras Kulvinskas
 
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Embracing Easefulness

I have been hearing and witnessing that as a conscious collective of wholehearted women… we are all searching for and desiring more ease.
 
Ease in living. Ease in being. Ease in the journey.
 
We are living in a world where stress is normalised. Where busyness is celebrated and praised as a status symbol. We are living in a world where softening into ease can feel like failure. It can feel like falling behind. When pressure and pace, productivity and profit are all valued above purpose and peace and inner power… embracing ease can feel like the ultimate rebellion.
 
Within this episode we will be deepening into a thoughtful consideration of easefulness, and what it means to consciously nurture ease in living and being.
 
Love Stephanie
xx
 
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Leading with Curiosity On Your Pathway of Self {Re}discovery with Bernadette Biggelaar

Within this special guest episode of "The Conscious Creative" we are joined by the brave, bright and delightful Bernadette Biggelaar for an enlivening and heartwarming conversation on self re-discovery.
 
Beautiful Bernadette is the owner and creator of "Butterfly and Bee Co." where she has designed and brought to life a collection of deeply inspiring journals based on astrology and the elements of earth, fire, water and air. Bernadette believes in digging deeper into what lights you up, chasing the beauty the Universe has to offer, and nurturing the gifts, potential, opportunities and strengths within, to live a life full of love, passion, purpose and joy.
 
Throughout this enchanting episode Bernadette will be sharing her intrinsic passion for self-discovery, and how her natural curiosity is the compass guiding her towards the life she has always dreamed of creating and experiencing. We will also be illuminating the idea of journalling as an art form, discussing how this powerful ritual of self-inquiry can be a source of nourishment and deep sustenance for our whole being… a sanctuary for release and healing, as well as a space for raw and honest creative expression. We will also be exploring Bernadette’s inspiring pathway into evolutionary astrology, and how we can all honour the fluid wisdom and guidance of our own cosmic blueprint as a gateway to knowledge, awareness, empowerment and self-sovereignty.
 
Connect with Bernadette:
 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/butterflyandbee.co/
 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/butterflyandbee.co/
 
Website: https://www.butterflyandbee.co.nz/
 
Freebie and Sign-Up To Bernadette’s Newsletter: https://www.butterflyandbee.co.nz/free-resources
 
Bernadette’s Book Recommendations: “Big Magic” by Liz Gilbert and “Light Is The New Black” by Rebecca Campbell
 
 
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