The Art of Creative Surrender

Imagine a white canvas in front of you – and a vision in your mind of blues and greens and purples – so you begin to paint, carefully placing your brush on the canvas as you blend the colors – and suddenly, you knock a jar of brown paint onto your palette. What then?

Do you clean it up? Do you start again?

Or do you wonder what the synchronicity of the spillage might be telling you?

What wants to be noticed? What wants to be included?

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Using Vulnerability as a Measure of Courage

Being an artist, musician, poet, performer, writer, creator – they all involve taking creative risks. We’re often putting ourselves out there for the world to see – through our words, our art, our music, our creative endeavors.
 
Some will love our work while others may not. But that’s okay. We’re not here to please everyone. We’re here to serve our creative purpose in the best way we can – through the divine gifts we’ve been given.
 
And in serving our purpose, we’re often relying on the strength of our vulnerability.
 
As popular author, storyteller, and researcher Brene Brown says, “Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.”
 
 
It takes a LOT of courage to be vulnerable.

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How Resourceful Are You?

We’re entering a full moon phase in the practical and resourceful sign of Capricorn. It’s a great time to review what you already have in place, both personally and professionally – and begin to look for creative ways to rework, reframe, or reshape what might be feeling old and stagnant.
 
Many times, all we need is a refresh – and not an overhaul.
 
As author and motivational speaker Tony Robbins says, “The defining factor for success is never resources – it’s resourcefulness.”
 
 
How creative are you with the resources you already have?

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Full Moon Dreaming

For many centuries, the moon has inspired thousands of beautiful stories, songs, dances, paintings, and poems. Through her many phases, she has served as a muse in a variety of ways.
 
What is it about the moon that stirs our innermost thoughts and inspires our deepest creativity?
 
What is it about her that unleashes the magic of our dreams?
 
The full moon brings a time of high energy and great sensitivity. It’s also a period of extraordinary creativity. Dreams (both day and night) are at their height during this phase – with the potential to activate possibilities that you never thought were possible.
 
 
As you take in the radiant light of tonight’s full moon, notice what comes to mind.

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Turning Brokenness into Beauty

Many of us are familiar with the saying, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”

And in several cultures, beauty is celebrated in unique ways, depending on how it’s viewed.

In Japan, for example, broken objects are often repaired with gold. The flaw is seen as a unique piece of the object’s history – which adds to its beauty.

Thinking about yourself and your own life, what do you consider “broken?”

And how might another see this “flaw” as beauty?

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My Manifesto as The Moonlight Muse

moonlightmuse-18_border2As The Moonlight Muse, it’s my intention to help highly-creative and spiritually-minded women connect the dots of their life story in a way that makes sense and in a way that feels right.  It’s through this intention that I’m able to help them “Connect with their Creative Purpose. Step into their Life Story. Create their Legacy.”

I’m a lover of story. I genuinely love hearing women tell their life stories. Through their words, through their laughter, through their tears – I hear threads of meaning, threads of purpose. And I have a divine gift for weaving these threads together in a way that unveils a richer life meaning, bringing about deep clarity and synchronistic moments.

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