You can listen to the full episode here: Listen to Bonus Episode: How To Use Your Imagination Without Burning Out
As spring energy builds, many of us feel the urge to start something new: a project, a routine, a change we’ve been thinking about for months.
But moving from idea to action isn’t always smooth.
In this bonus episode of Anchored & Alive, Blaze is joined by artist and writer Sarah Bush to explore imagination, creativity, and the real rhythm of bringing something to life, including the parts we don’t often talk about.
🌿 In this episode we explore:
- Why imagination is part of everyday life (not just for artists)
- The natural phases of the creative process and why each one feels different
- How spring shifts us from dreaming into doing
- What to expect when ideas meet real-world limitations
- How to work with multiple ideas without overwhelming yourself
- Why rest, space, and stepping away are essential for clarity
- How to protect your imagination from external noise and pressure
Hello everybody, and welcome to a special episode of Anchored & Alive. This week I wanted to bring in someone to speak about imagination and creativity, and I met Sarah Bush a couple of weeks ago and we had an amazing conversation about what it means to be creative.
To be inspired and to work with creative and imaginative energy throughout the seasons.
So I wanted to welcome Sarah here today to talk about this in a deeper way, especially because imagination is her area of expertise and she has a community of people that she nurtures, helping them to get in touch with their creative process and to create and use things that are tangible in the real world, and that address real nervous system issues that we have.
So I'm so excited to welcome you, Sarah. Hi and could you introduce yourself before we get started in your own way?
Oh sure, I'm Sarah Bush. I have a sub-stack called the Pink Teacup and I have a website with my art.
I'm an artist, I'm a writer, and I'm a teacher I guess, and I'm obsessed with how the imagination is kind of an underutilized what I call a human superpower and I just really like helping people expand their notion about what their imagination is capable of and... how they can really turn it into their empowerment.
Could you tell me more about what your definition of imagination is so if someone's coming in and listening today, but they understand really what you're talking about in a practical way.
Well, you know, I feel like, you know, the imagination is such a part of us that we mostly don't notice it.
But then at the same time people will say that they don't have an imagination or they don't have much of an imagination.
You know, in the same way that people will tell you, so mean that they're not creative.
And yet everything around us in the two rooms that you and I are sitting in and everyone who's listening, everything you're surrounded by started in someone's imagination.
So I really think of the imagination as almost like a four-step process.
It’s sort of the creation process which is what we all kind of understand it. There's also like imagining-as, and there's imagining as becoming, and then there's imagination as sovereignty.
And those are the four ways I kind of think about imagination.
I like that you're really placing it into our lived spaces.
And recognizing that, you know, our rooms didn't just look the way they are because they popped up that way automatically. It's that we had our hands in it.
Someone built the thing that come into our rooms. But also for us personally, when we feel like we had nothing to do with it.
We actually chose everything and we had a lot of input into how we're set up and the ways that we flow through our spaces.
So it's a really vibrant and living experience that we have that we're not really thinking about.
I'm actually curious also about how people use their imagination in, I don't know, creating processes in their lives or creating art, if that's where they're at and how you're working with your imagination.
Yeah, so when you're creating art, I think that they're very together: your imagination and your creativity.
I do think though that the imagination can really go up to the most cosmic scale. I think like the reason that we're all sitting here today is human beings use their imaginations to survive millions of years and that we are an extension of that. You know, it's like a part of our lineage.
So in that sort of creative problem-solving aspect, I feel like a one really great
One really helpful thing, I guess, is to understand that the creative process has its own rhythm. And when you...
are familiar with that rhythm, it helps you move through it. And I think that's true really for any type of project that you work on or any kind of thing you're trying to kind of birth into the world.
Yeah. So what is your experience of the rhythm? Like if you're thinking about the creative impulse and the idea that you have versus the final expression of it and the process that you go on. Could you take us through like a...
a brief history or outline of that, giving something that you've made as an example.
Sure, I think of it as a kind of an arc, the creative process is kind of an arc, and I think it just has these very predictable rhythms and even obstacles that happen and that when I experience that, one, I'm not taking it personally.
So for instance, I feel like the mistake that people make about the creative process, even if they're inspired and excited, is they forget that it's hard. Or when it is hard that that's normal that it's hard. Like I think sometimes people think inspiration means it won't be hard.
Or that when they see art made by other people that is inspired, that it just flows all out of them.
Oh, I wish it was like that! No, I know, it's not how it is - and then like I think starting is its own kind of hard.
I think the middle is its own kind of hard and I think finishing is its own kind of hard.
So you run into these obstacles in each phase of the creative process, like it's starting, you've got the blank canvas or--
you know, when you have an idea in your imagination, it's perfect because it's in your imagination.
So when you start to bring it into the world, it starts to become itself and it stops being abstract and it's in that becoming a concrete thing that the challenge happened.
That part of starting there can be a sense of disappointment like this isn't what I imagined how this might be, or this maybe is a little less electrifying than it was when it was an idea in my imagination.
Oh, I love that. Yeah, and I think too, when we talked before, like there's also this process as you've moved through even that difficulty and you have something before you, in knowing when to finish, or finishing too early and not really being in enough conversation with what you're creating or being willing to let it go. And I found that so fascinating.
But what I'd really like to do is now that we've seen that arc, bring it back to this particular season and the energy of spring, because there seems to be this difference in how we experience our creative energy right now.
And I know for me personally, I had so many ideas and it was this really internal, intimate, exciting, imaginative process over the winter. And particularly in February, I was dreaming of my garden and how I wanted it to be.
When I heard you say like, "Oh, it's just brilliant and perfect in your mind." I'm like, "Yeah, it really was. Like, I have... this grandiose, like 900 square foot crazy garden and all of the ways each garden bed would relate to the other ones.”
And now that I'm here in spring and I'm ready to get moving on that, I'm faced with limitations, and budget and time and season and the dirt.
Do I even have enough light to do that? Where am I going to put it? And then who is in the way? And all of these things are bubbling up.
And I do have to deal with them if I hope to make any of it a reality.
So I wanted to talk with you about your experience of the difference of the way your process works coming out of the winter and moving into the spring, and what you expect and what you work with and how you deal with all that.
Yeah, that's such a great question and what you describe is exactly the challenge at the beginning. Like the rubber starts to hit the road and then you're thinking,
Oh dear, you know. Oh, how’s that even going to work? And for me, you know, like the winter tends to be a productive time for me creatively because it's very inward.
So I it's like my private time with my imagination, my private work. And then the spring to me, my energy goes more outward.
So I move from that internal kind of creative space into a more external, more social, more connecting aspect of the imagination. I think of it as like imagining-as or imagining with…
And you know the garden is kind of a good example of that because you are going to now be in a very long conversation with the garden and be doing a lot of listening and guessing.
And, you know, I think that conversation piece is really about not rushing and about allowing.
And so when you start to do that, you know, it's like kind of a commitment to yourself rather than to the end result.
And it's a commitment to the thing you're making rather than it's like - it's a real commitment to that journey part of it.
Oh, I love your language with this because so much of my work helping people be in rhythm with their own being and their desires is about allowing,
And recognizing that when we make a commitment towards ourselves and doing something that we're excited about or that we love or that's important to us.
There's this sense of surrender that has to go hand in hand with it and saying, "I'm gonna do my part and I have to kind of trust that the world is going to rise to meet me. And that also I'm capable of dealing with hard things.”
That even though obstacles will happen or the communication is difficult, or the feedback from the earth, whatever it is - because I know I've got water and mud and dirt and sticks. I have to deal all of that stuff.
And I never know what it's going to be, but I can trust that the outcome will probably surprise me and hopefully surprise me in a good way.
That's right, and I also think that, you know, it also shows us, like when we start to have doubt or confusion,
You know, a lot of that has to do with the stories we're telling ourselves that we're imagining somebody else would have done this faster.
Somebody else would have done this better. What, you know, like the self-doubt aspect, like even when someone's in the middle of a creative process. I mean, you're guaranteed. I call it the messy middle.
It doesn't look like what you thought it was good. It looks like nothing, you know. It's like cleaning out your closet.
Where it always looks worse before it gets better. And I feel like when someone is kind of new to embracing their own creativity perhaps is the right way to think about that.
They think it's when they run into those difficulties they think it's some sort of flaw in themselves rather than inherent to the process and that even people who are great at whatever it is they're doing also experience this exact same thing.
So it's not like they don't go through it. Correct. They just know the drill. So they're really familiar with the rhythm of that process. And so it helps them not take it as personally.
Hugely. Yes. Yeah, well, I think we're all very guilty of comparing ourselves to other people who are farther along on the path that we had hoped to be on.
And I think that the comparison particularly happens in that messy middle and then towards what we think should be our harvest time and we get confused about when that was supposed to happen.
So I think any time we're starting out a new endeavor, we either think the timeline is so far out, it's impossible and that comes with its own problems.
Or we, for some reason, believe that we're also going to be done in four months because this expert professional that we saw on YouTube once got their stuff done in four months and we forget that that person's been doing it for 30 or 40 years. Their outcome is in no way connected to what we're doing.
But we feel like it's personal, that something got in the way or we just weren't good enough and maybe it's not for us.
I think it's so important for us to build ourselves up and recognize that one, we're always accomplishing way more than we think we are and it's very hard for us when our noses are in it to zoom out.
I think it's important that we do so to be able to take account of all of these accomplishments.
You know, I want to hop into this idea of gratitude that we talked about last time I spoke with you. Because I think that's something that's so nourishing that helps people get out of that comparisonitis.
And able to enjoy the process a little bit more and give themselves enough time to even create anything at all.
Nice. I also think that being on your own side really matters in that situation. Like I think like when I'm making my art and I run into a challenge…
I've done it for so long that I have faith in my ability to get myself through it.
And that faith, you had mentioned that earlier, is so huge. And if you're new at something--
In a way it just takes more bravery to do the new thing than it does… like so if someone's making their art for the first time and they're like or like…
Well, when I make something bad. Well, I've made a lot of things I think are good. So when I make something bad.
You know, I don't, I don't, it's not evidence in a jury trial against me. Right. That no, in fact, I'm not an artist.
But when you are new, well, you might make a lot of things that might feel bad to you.
And so you're going to work harder like I just think, oh, that actually genuinely takes a little more bravery. And I was in that place in the past.
And I love that. But I think it's really good to congratulate yourself for having the guts to do it.
I want to touch in on being a tattoo artist. So when I first was apprenticing to tattoo,
The very first times you're working on someone, you know it's the first time, you know it's permanent.
You know it's gonna suck compared to what you're gonna do 10 years from then. Like there's no getting away from it and the only way you get to 10 years from then is if you do the first one.
So I try to let people know it's okay and of course always you're just going to show up and do your best and you're going to learn.
But as long as you're enjoying the process and the person that you're working with, if you're actually even influencing someone else, like I think of tattoos as like this high stakes environment. There's so much feedback from the other person.
And at the end, I could be satisfied if I thought, "Okay, it took me a really long time. I know that the guy teaching me would have had this done in 20 minutes. It took me an hour and a half, oh my god, this poor person that was like in my chair."
But I didn't think "oh this poor person" I thought "well this person is having a dialogue with me"
I'm delivering the best that I can. At the end we're both satisfied. They're happy, I'm happy, and they're walking away.
And when I would look back like a year later at photos because you're always like taking a portfolio or seeing what you've done.
I would look at it and be like, "Okay, this is obviously not the best work in the world." But it's also, I would think, I would congratulate myself and be like, "It wasn't the worst. This person wasn't sad. They left healthy, happy, and whole. I didn't scar anybody up."
Bigging myself up, right? Yeah, I mean it's so important.
Yes. I mean, it's a real thing, especially in any of the arts, because we don't really live in a culture that celebrates the arts. And so, if you're in sports,
You are living in a culture that is constantly reinforcing you to yourself. And if you keep going, it's great. It's great. It's a part of a team. We love you. Exactly. Or even like everything about the culture. Like what happens on the weekend and going to the sports bar and watching the game and having a team.
It's just your interest is really reflected back to you all the time in big and small ways.
I just think in the arts, that's not really true.
This is so interesting. So I want to make this a little more tangible for people listening that don't feel that they're artists themselves.
Because I think, as you said, everyone's creative and we're all living that process but maybe not identifying it as clearly. So I want to give people some language to see themselves in this.
And say, "Okay, putting together your outfits, even designing the structure of your week."
These are things that people aren't celebrating or congratulating you for. But at the end when you look back, you can go, you know, it's remarkable that I was able to balance everyone's schedules, get everyone to the doctor on time, to school, back home.
Have these meals made. Like that is an art in itself that no one is ever going to say, "Hey, you know what? I really think you should do that." Or, "Congratulations, you were doing it great."
But we should be seeing it in ourselves because sometimes when something is going to happen anyway, so natural to us in the drive of our own… We just dismiss it as though it's not important.
That it isn't creative, that it isn't happening, and that no one cares. And I think if we all just stopped doing all of these amazing things that we're doing and coordinating and creating and cultivating in our lives, life would be really awful really quickly.
So I think it's important for us to identify that we are participating always in this creative and generative process.
That's right, because we are creating our lives every minute of the day. We are creating our routine. We're making a million different small decisions. We hit a detour. We're create a new way home.
We're constantly doing this. And I really think like what you're saying there is how important it is to honor your own gifts. And I think, especially for women, I think that feels like bragging.
But I really feel like honoring your personal gifts is paramount, like it's--
It's disrespecting your life, to not honor your gifts. And if your gift is gathering everyone together, making that family hum, or being able to pick up one last thing or remembering.
You know, when you run out of milk and you know, always had always juggling everything. That's genuine. That's a real thing.
Just because it comes easily to you, doesn't mean it doesn't count.
Yes, oh my gosh, so let's tie that in, too. Because I know for people who are working in the arts, they're going to hear that all the time, that this dismissal of "Oh, but well, because you're good at it, it didn't count," or "Of course you're going to do that because you're good at it anyway."
It's so irritating to do genuinely helpful and foundational work that supports everyone around you and have it ignored or dismissed.
And I actually think women in general deal with this constantly.
This dismissal and minimization of what we bring to the table, the work that we do, all of the gears that are grinding that are making everything happen.
And I think it leads to an exhaustion and an anger.
And now that I've said the word anger, I'm bringing it back to spring and going, there's so much frustration and anger right now, just generally.
And I think it comes up every season, but particularly in times of strife and stress and terror and upset which definitely is happening, that the important work that women are doing right now isn't only in, I don't know…
the creative arts, but it's in holding the community together.
It's in helping their families to survive and thrive. It is holding some stability for everyone around them, and I think it can take a toll, but there's embracing of this energy and frustration that allows us to be creative.
And I know that you talk in your communities about like these tiny acts of resistance and taking what you have to say and bringing it out into the public in tiny, not exactly subversive, but just like these tiny secret ways, right?
That you're like, "How do I get a joyful and exciting way create something true and share it with the community, quietly,
Which seems very feminine, effectively, but without making it into this huge loud statement.” And I think women are masters of this, so I love that you really embrace that in your work.
Well thank you because I totally agree with you, like almost like a gentle way of doing it and that women are masters of this and wanting to find ways of stitching together their communities when they are and trying to find ways of connecting with each other.
And also when you were talking, I felt like women are doing all these things that are taken for granted and invisible.
But I think a really important step is to reframe what you're doing and to claim it as creative. I think that kind of claiming does help create a shift. And when it comes from inside, that's when it can really last and land.
And so maybe it feels a little foreign or maybe it feels like you're faking it when you are saying it like, ah really? You know, it's so easy to do.
“Maybe I'm exaggerating any of my importance.” But that reclaiming it, like this is creative…
It's like you're constantly creatively problem solving.
But I love that you're bringing up the impostor syndrome because I hear that all the time from my clients and friends as well. Is that any time we show up and do something cool, we're quick to qualify it and put it in a little smaller container.
And I like to let people know it's okay, like you don't have to do that around me anyway.
And I'm more than happy to celebrate how awesome it is that, like you made breakfast this morning, like I celebrate really stupidly small things continually and I'm teaching my daughter to do it as well and she laughs at me and teases me about it but I see the smile and like, the soulfulness in having that reflected around her.
I think it's important that we learn to give that to each other as women and as a community, to just acknowledge no matter what you're doing, don’t make it small, acknowledge who it helped and that it's helping you or that it stabilizes something because when you consciously do that you're giving yourself that evidence.
Just like we talked about 10 minutes ago, the more you point out the evidence of you succeeding, the more you have this experience of contributing and having it make a difference the more of that resilience builds within you and the more inspired and excited you get to continue doing more.
So rather than shutting that down yourself, you're giving yourself an opportunity to build a stronger foundation to keep going.
Yes, yes, yes, yes to all of that. And also, you know, like for me, I have to be careful of my one of my little tells is, “oh, my little thing.”
I make it little. “Oh that little” and kind of trying to consciously catch yourself is important but I think it might help a lot of women if they realize that by honoring themselves, they’re role modeling.
Like what you're giving your daughter is such important role modeling about that. And so I think with all our training about serving the others…
Like maybe that path to honoring ourselves can feel a little easier in that framework of “you're really doing some important role modeling for younger girls” or whatever, you know.
I think in general as humans it is often easier for us to do something in the service of someone else or in the service of a cause than it is for us to think we're doing it selfishly or for our own gain.
And I think particularly growing up female, I'm taught, you know, stay out of the way, be quiet, you know, speak when it’s your turn and all of these things that I grew up with and went, well, I hate that. I hate that shit. I don't want to be treated this way.
So how do I become an adult who does her own thing? And then going through years of imposter syndrome and like showing up anyway and pushing through it.
But I think in my work. I'm trying to deconstruct that and say it's really harmful for us to feel that we have to push through constantly. That the way to succeed - it just feels so masculine and forcing and difficult.
And it's not supposed to be that way, but we've been taught that to succeed, It has to have been hard to have anything worth having.
You need to work more hours and prove how exhausted you are. And so many of us wear that in a weird way as a comfort because we are so freaking exhausted.
So we're like, well, at least we have that and we can prove to the world that we've been trying so hard and we've been working so hard.
But we end up completely depleted and exhausted. And my work is centered around helping people balance their nervous system, figure out how to comfort themselves and actually show up at the capacity they have. To nurture that and build it.
And I look at this season of spring as this ability to… It has a natural pushing energy. However, we can allow it to move us rather than us pushing it. If that makes sense.
Totally. And I also think that it's so important to consider that when you work on your own wholeness, you are contributing to the greater wholeness.
And each time not having that feel like some kind of selfish rationalization. But that is in fact the truth.
That when you change yourself energetically, you impact the world.
And that we don't, in our materialistic world, we don't think a lot about our energy, but we all know when we walk into a poisonous energy situation or a positive vibe situation and so we ourselves are a portable energetic field.
Oh my gosh, I love it. So at this point, I want to touch back on an idea that we discussed before, which is about the energetic situation.
And it's about how often our ideas and our energy and our thoughts are getting hijacked by the news media, social media, advertising, all of the things that are coming at us as well as our own personal dynamics, our families, our communities and our situations.
I feel like particularly at this moment in time in the world, there is so much that we are absorbing.
And I think it's important that people identify it. And like you said, be truthful with ourselves about the reality that we're experiencing because sometimes we judge it as "oh it's me. I don't have enough energy. I don't have enough capacity. This is too hard."
And we feel like it's our fault, but I don't really feel that that's the truth of the situation, particularly right now. I don't think it is ever really.
But most of us are not used to being aware on that scale to be able to comfort ourselves in the way that we need to be able to re-center and get back on track.
That's right, and I feel like anytime we use the word "should," that's our little alarm bell.
Like “I should have gotten this done by now.”” I should really be giving more to my community.”
I should be. All those things like the should alarm bell is a good place to try to catch yourself.
But I also think that the hijacking of our imaginations is a huge thing. And that's because the reason our imaginations can get hijacked so easily is that the relationship between our anxiety and our fear and our imagination is sometimes the closest relationship of all our other emotions, compared to all our other emotions.
Imagination. So our imaginations, like our fear drives our imagination more than any other feeling when it goes unchecked; when we haven't thought about our imaginations. So whenever we're worrying, that's our anxiety using our imagination.
When we're catastrophizing, that's our fear using our imaginations. And in fact, I actually think…
You know, we often will use our fear with our imagination to drive ourselves forward, to take action.
Because fear can be a very familiar driver. Like I'm gonna fail this test, I better study, you know, then you're imagining, so then you can
Oh my God, I got handed this thing in to work. I gotta just do it, because I'm gonna be in so much trouble.
You know, that's our sort of de facto driver.
And so when people make a conscious effort to hijack your imagination, it works because
It's like a, you know, here's something that I found true for myself is the more that I recognized and reminded myself constantly like whenever I'm listening to the news.
It is usually like there's a fact in there, but there's also a whole lot of opinion and spin on it trying to make me even more upset than I might be if I just interpreted this myself.
And not only did they give that to me and their opinion and packaged it as this is the capital T truth.
No matter who I'm listening to, they then repeat it every five to 25 minutes and it just keeps cycling and it's all you hear constantly. And then you hear someone come and they heard it too and they parrot it back.
So once I recognize like, oh, okay, there's always a spin on this and why do they do this? It's to keep us listening.
In the same way social media has these algorithms to keep us going, like they're making money off of us just being there and being present. How do they do it? They hijack that imagination.
And one of the best ways they can do it is to alternate delight, and despair. Like excitement and fear.
So they're going to give you something to be excited about or empowering in some way, but usually in their own spin and then something to be outraged about.
And once you start to see that pattern, it holds less over you. I'm going to say it doesn't stop you from feeling the emotion. I definitely still feel it and I get really pissed off.
But seeing that it's there helps me to consciously disengage more often and that might be helpful for anyone listening who’s found that they're caught in that.
It's to go, "Okay, there is this cycle. It's preying on our actual biology."
Like we are geared for that because survival says if something went really great, do more of it. If something is going really terrible, get the hell out of there and never go near it again.
And if we don't consciously go wait, is that even true? We're just at the mercy of it.
So that's right. Yeah, like we want to kind of bring our awareness back into our bodies and feel like, well, what's going on? Am I in fight or flight?
And is that generated by anything that's in my actual situation? Or is it just because I heard something on a screen?
Is it actually in my community? And I find that when we cultivate these connections with actual real people and have that conversation with a real human that shares our values,
That is so grounding and nurturing and it's something that women are great at. We're great at the new relationships. We're great at reaching out and building these communities.
And we can really lean into that, particularly in this season to go, "Wait, I would rather use all of this frustration and everything that's coming at me and direct it in a direction.”
And that's what I think that Spring really is asking us for is not to start every single project or do every single thing but to direct all of that energy.
And what I see when we're hijacked is that the energy scatters and nothing gets done. We go in too many directions at everything fizzles and then we've stopped playing.
That's right. And I think of it as not really standing in my sovereignty anymore. You know, and I think of myself in my fullness, you know, and my, like, the full expression of my physical experience.
And so that might sound like giant words, but I really feel like one of the ways I handle that is I try to pivot back into my body and fill that body, like imagining into my body, imagining a light filling my body.
Imagining that happening, imagining who I am, like imagining into who I am, what I stand for, what I'm good at, all my relationships.
And those things can really genuinely help you pivot. And then it also can help you focus.
Like all the 8 million things going on and pick something because you kind of ground back into yourself.
And when other people are trying to hijack your imagination, they don't want you to stand in your zone.
No, I think they want you to pin on to whatever they wanted you to do. I would spend a lot of our times doing that.
And like you said, when you're actually feeling into your own body, feeling into your own worth of your own groundedness in your community, your values, your connections, your feelings around you.
What you're drawn to is different when you're standing in that versus when someone's shouting at you about what to be afraid of.
So you might have 10 possibilities and the person shouting on a screen or in your newsfeed says be afraid of aging, be afraid of whatever, or buy this cream.
You know what you're standing in here? That's right. Yeah. And you know what I love about what you just said is that…
They don't say be afraid of aging, but that's what they're telling you to do. They're saying this cream does this and this does this.
But what they're saying is be afraid of aging. And so it's like you don't get my, you don't get to have my imagination. My imagination is sacred ground. You don't get to have it.
No, because your interest, like, if you worry, I feel like this is advertising.
This is another thing that I really pointed out to my daughter, saying, hey, have you noticed when you watch YouTube and stuff comes up and it gives you an advertisement?
Its whole purpose is to tell you, "Oh my God, you really need this thing. Get it right now. It might be gone."
And it's so cool and you love it. And look at all these kids having a great time and they're trying to make you feel excited about it so that when it goes away, now you're afraid that it's gone, but you want to capture that feeling again.
And you can, I told this to like a three and four year old and she like the next year watched something. She's like, wow, they're really good at it because I watched this commercial and now I really want these like.
Oh my gosh, what are they? Like the pillow things? She's like, I just need all of them now.
She's like, but I didn't even know they existed before this commercial. And I was like, bing, bing, bing, kids, that's exactly it! Like you didn't even know that some of this stuff existed, but you feel highly compelled now.
It's an important direction to move in. So I like to help people just find ways to get back into themselves and their body and separate from all that long enough. And I think that's part of it is like separate from it long enough, five minutes, 20 minutes,
To figure out what it is that you wanted to do if you didn't have all that noise. And I think I'm fortunate enough that I'm old enough that I remember a time when if you didn't have a TV on like there were no commercials.
I didn't have the radio on, I wasn't listening to any of that, so I had to deal with, one, boredom and also come up with my own ideas and ways to entertain myself.
And now everything is just streamable. You can ask a question and on demand get an answer from anywhere in the world, whether it's true or not. We don't know… if we can get that. It's so frustrating.
Because you're not giving yourself enough time to come up with your own answer. And when I get far enough away from all of the noise and all the things that I'm afraid about, I'm like, well, all I really want to do is
Actually, is I would enjoy some food and herbs and I'd like to play like learn to play my viola and I want to read some books.
And honestly, like, why isn't that enough? It could be. That's true. And you know, you're also making me think about how...
when your imagination gets hijacked. Like, you know, it's easier to soothe yourself with shopping than it is to make your thing. So, holy cow.
So if you're already tired, that can be very tempting. And I feel like one it is almost necessary. It's like, wait, we're just looking for any... things though, like to me I feel like if we could treat the projects that we care about, like gifts we're giving ourselves instead of tests we're trying to pass.
Ooh, I love that. That's a great way, I think, to embrace these weeks and this season of choosing what you want to work on as like I want to give myself some gifts this year.
And here are some of the variety of things that I might like. So here's my thought about this early in the spring.
I still have a lot of ideas and I haven't yet figured out which one has the most momentum yet.
So I think of it as starting seedlings. So one of them is starting the whole garden is like one seedling that I know I'm going to grow.
I have the idea of I want to walk a lot more, I want to work on eating more fresh vegetables.
I want to do my viola. Like I have so many things. I have a book club and I'm reading and all of this stuff.
So I have all of those and I'm like, all of these are worthy. These are great. The tendency that I can have is to go create. I'm going to go to 100 on all of them and they're all going to be amazing but that's not recognizing that I am…
I'm a real human. I don't have the energy of like a thousand people. I have the energy of just me.
And it's not infinite, plus, those are all my fun things. There's also the community and my family and my job and all of the other stuff that has to happen. And I know every single person listening also has those obligations.
So I think it's important to ground yourself right now and go, "I am a person." And it's okay that I have limited capacity.
And it's also okay to begin a bunch of things right now. Interestingly, as an experiment, to see which one wants to take hold the most.
And it's okay for me to then direct my energy towards the things that are feeling more fulfilling or more important or like filling that inside of me the most and it's okay to do that. So now I don't have to make all of the decisions yet.
But I can choose to direct my energy more consciously because again, like there's not 5,000 possibilities, not really.
Yes, and also I am the same way with the million interests.
And even with my artwork, I have an idea for--
often a body of work. I would say two to three years ahead of my ability to make it.
And one of the ways that I handle that is I make myself what I call way-showers.
So sometimes they're extremely small. So for instance,
There could be like a feeling in my work that I want to remind myself of. Like I can't get to all of them, but I don't want to lose them.
So I make these way show, or sometimes I write on a post-it note, a word. Like on my bulletin board in my studio, it says, "palimpsest."
One, I love that word. I'm obsessed in the little silent P in the middle of it.
And two, it's all about these layers, these layering layering, which is important to me in my work. And when I put it there--
I'm giving it back to myself even if I can't address it directly. When I make a collection of images that could be on Pinterest or could be on your bulletin board.
I'm telling myself I like this idea. This matters to me. I can't get to that idea.
I like it, it doesn't go away. Other times I'll actually make one thing as a test for a body of work. And that's really, that's like,
And that becomes, if that works, it's like I feel like that body of work is safe. It's not gonna disappear.
I've made this portal into that body of work through this initial piece. And it can just sit there. I don't feel hurried because I've got my portal. And finding your own personal ways of doing that's why I want to say like the Post-it mode. It can be very small.
Or it can't be larger. You know, it could be like, "I want this area of my garden to be earth."
Well, that's gonna have to be three lavender plants 'cause I can't afford anything else right now because I'm also planting over here.
You know, it's like you're making these, I guess as a visual person, I make myself visual remind me,
But everyone will do this in their own way. What works for me that I want to do as simple as possible.
So what you're doing is saying like, "Okay, there's this idea that I have, so the placeholder, the way-shower, it's going to be this one object, but it's not gone. It's right here. I can find it."
So for me, I've got the viola hanging right, like I can see it right now on my wall. And so that when I walk by, I can just pick it up and pluck a little bit and put it back on the wall and I never feel like it's a demand. I don't want anything that can be... that fills me up to feel like something I have to do or that I should do.
And I think it's important when we're talking about using our imaginations this time of year.
Not to make another thing that we have to do because we already have too many.
I think some of this is about planting our own dreams and giving them space to grow and that feels also really feminine is this, using the energy of spring to allow something to manifest for ourselves.
So like you say within your project, I have all these ideas and I'm going to give them space and when it's their time, it's going to naturally happen.
I don't have to stress that if I don't do it now fast enough, it'll never happen.
I think we have been taught in our society that fast is important, more is better. Do it, do it, do it.
And we have lost touch with the real rhythm of living. And real rhythm of living needs moments of rest and needs moments of quiet digestion.
It is how we actually function and you see it in feeling your body like when you give yourself that time to rest.
Suddenly the idea is in the energy to do stuff arises. It's only when we never get enough rest for sleep or pause that we are afraid that we can't even find the energy to begin, or the focus to begin.
And I think that's something that's been cultivated in this culture, is to keep us just running on that wheel so that the only thing we have energy for is survival.
And I say, no, I don't want that life. I want the life where I get to choose and I can have my garden.
And I can eat what's in season and do what I'm doing just because that's how I want to be. And that feels like such an outrageous rebellious thing to do, but it feels delightful and human-based.
It's so true and that whole idea as well of resting, I think you can even rest with your projects.
You know, we can rest with our garden. And sometimes, you know, the hyper productivity message.
You can interfere with the success of something like when you are present and allow it to have its season, you know, what you thought you might do initially might end up not being what you do.
And if you have room, you really want. I think when we go self-defense… Like sometimes being broke and not being able to afford the art materials you want. Like sometimes it's a blessing. Like sometimes it could have--
You know, it's like, okay, these are the plants I can plant right now. That's okay. Yes, and sometimes it comes because sometimes your garden can then evolve into the thing it needs to be, and not the thing that you had.
You know if you had a bottomless checkbook might have done.
Again, I think when we have when we rush everything and we try to leave to the completed idea before we lift through the process and enjoying it or being a part of it. One, it's so detached from us that we don't feel like it's really ours.
So I think if I had instant success with something like that, it would be boring. Like you'd be like, "Okay, yeah, I check. I've got the garden now." But I would have had no experience of actually doing it myself part of.
My particular appreciation of it is how annoyingly difficult it is for me to just find the cinder blocks to do this thing.
But I'm going to be so proud of each one that I locate and how I put it together and dig everything.
There's something really, like you said, finding your fullness in the process.
And I think that in our day-to-day lives, there's a lot of things like that that we can feel really proud of because we were present in those moments.
And we took the time and we built those relationships and we talked to those people and we did all those things.
Rather than forgetting that we did it, not taking it for granted. It's important that we live that process. Because like you said, it's gonna take a turn, it's not gonna look like whatever I envisioned in my head.
I'm realizing that, there's no way that this like crazy garden of a millionaire exists. It doesn't. But it inspired me enough to get started on the garden I'm gonna have.
That's right and the constraints can be friend is really what I was trying to say. You know our constraint that feel like obstacles. Maybe they're not really obstacles to me. Maybe they're- No, because I also think-
Who are the people I'm going to meet on the way to manifesting this thing? What are the moments that I'm going to share with my family? What are the moments that I'm going to share with my family? What are the moments that I'm going to share with my family?
In a garden you have the actual fruit and herb that's very like me. I'm going to have a cucumber. I'm going to have like these herbs that I can put into my dinner.
So there is a tangible product at the end. But I think it's important not to dismiss like the adventures that are had on the way. Like, what do I get to see when I'm out in the dirt and the sunrise?
What animal hops by my garden that I just would have missed. I would have missed that entire moment in my life if I hadn't been out there.
I consciously look for those things now and I like helping people remember to look for them in their lives too because those are the movements of our lives.
And I think there is so much magic out there in nature and in connecting with people and in doing these things that we love. We only get it if we're present.
And generally we're the most present when we're working with our imagination, creating something that we love, being part of something that's true to us and not something we were forced to do.
Yes, I think that's right. And also like even that connecting to your project, you know, in the garden, like you're really connecting with nature.
And then because people don't, because we don't have to make a lot of things in our culture, I just think we've paid a price for not having to do that.
And sometimes we get confused and think that a lot of things that we create take a long time. And so it's too much to jump in summing or something, but I think
When you start to do it, it like reconnects you back to these normal rhythms of the season.
It reconnects you to what is the true rhythm of the creation process.
And then that connects you back to yourself because as humans, this is what we're supposed to be doing.
Yeah, so there was something about what you just said. Can you talk to me about the true time it takes to make something? So connecting to that rhythm of the season.
Because I know for me in the garden, like this is not a one year project, this is a decades project for me, it's gonna change constantly.
I don't expect a final outcome ever, but I guess to get to the closest expression of the dream that I had, I'm guessing five years. So I'm like, that's a five year arc to even get to something that might resemble what I initially thought of.
What does it look like for you and your experience in that arc? If you were to start something right now.
How would you identify where you are in that process and what a realistic time would you take?
Well, it does vary, I would say, from project to project. My garden is the same way, where it's many, many years. And I had a friend
She's my gardener. And then she started to do more of it.
This never ends. That's really. I don't want it to end. I love being in the garden. I'm good with that.
As you know, it's the idea of a finished product. I thought, oh, I see. She thinks there's a finished product she's supposed to be getting and then she doesn't have to worry about a thing. But really it's a relationship. A garden is a relationship.
So it's like, you know, a family member. And then like an art work to me, like what I...
I try to do for myself when I want to start the body of work or create something. Do some small steps.
Because I really think that we talked about it earlier, but that when you have an idea in the ether.
That's how I think of it. It's in your imagination. It's in the ether. You are pulling it into concrete reality, like into the physical world. It's not easy. So it's a birthing process to me. And so I think it's good to think about it as that.
And then make some small step forward and let it breathe. Okay, what does that look like? I'm just going to visit it. And I'm really big on visiting work and listening and connecting with it as your kind of partner almost.
You are doing this thing together, even if it's a painting or whatever. You're making itself.
So you're trying to listen. What are you? It's like a little kid. You know, you wanted them to be a football player, but oh, they look like they want to be a ballerina. You know, you better help them be what they're supposed to be.
You know like so this piece comes in and I'm trying to help it be what it's supposed to be as best as I can.
I love it. While you were talking, I was thinking even in terms of redecorating a room or setting up a room.
There is a point where you put everything where you think you want it and then there's this breathing space where you live in it for a little bit and go, "Oh, no, that chair needed to be over here because no one walks over there. Like I'm never going to sit in front of that window, I want to look over here.” So there's always this conversation.
And I think when we recognize that is our imagination and our creative process, having enough time to be in relationship with what's actually happening.
And it makes you feel like you're a part of something rather than, I don't know, just someone moving things around and having to be that.
I love having my own sovereignty. Being able to choose all this stuff, that's really important.
But there's something very cozy and belonging about recognizing that there is this back and forth that happens even within space.
It's not even just living things, it's just objects. Yes, because I think everything is alive really, so that works for me. I mean, if you've ever planted a plant
I planted a shrub a couple of years ago and I was like, "Oh my goodness, it's like it was born for that space." And then this other gardener came by and she said, “It’s like it was born for that space”
I was like, I know, because that doesn't always happen. Sometimes you plant things and it struggles and you're like, I think it's, you’re somewhere you don't want to. Let me find you another spot in the garden. I mean that's so common really.
And when you make art, it's the same thing. Like I can look at a piece that's not finished and I can think, "Okay, I need to do some work over here."
Over here or like when I've done a commission. Someone's like, "I'm not, this doesn't work for me here and here." I don't listen, they always offer what they think the solution is. I don't really care.
Okay, you have your solution. That's fine. So, but I'm thinking, okay, what's not working?
So then I'll fix, let's say there's three to five of those things on a piece. I will fix one.
And then I have to start over because that changed everything. Well, you just hold on M.X.
Yeah, exactly. So you don't just need to be in a parade to solve each one. You fix. You think like, OK, that's more resolved.
Now what do I think? Is everything resolved now? Or maybe not? Or maybe something new pops up?
It also lets you know when things are done enough. I think that's part of that conversation that you're having is, as you adjust any one thing, everything shifts and adjusts to accommodate in the same way that like to say a new person shows up in a class.
And then the whole dynamic changes and the teacher moves the seating around and conversations are happening that we're in.
And then someone leaves and now the whole thing is different again. Our lives are like that all the time. So I think locating ourselves in time and space is super important and it's something that we're all doing naturally anyway.
Just bringing that to your consciousness as you're listening to this. You're able to locate yourself right now how you are and think about as a listener, like what are the projects that I'm excited about?
And what are the things that I might want to bring to life this year? And how might I identify which things are still cooking or which things are ready to start blooming?
And I'm curious what your opinion, like how you would help someone identify that is.
I do think it's a listening process. And sometimes I think you also, you know, and it's still again an allowing process. You know, you might be wrong.
You might take a step. You have to take a step and be willing to be wrong. And you have to.
And that is probably maybe the biggest thing. When we get attached to an outcome.
Or like let's say you have a piece or a project and it's really close and you're so like when I used to get these classes where I'd teach to make work and I always wanted them to work on three things at once.
Because when you work on one,
You can't turn away. But also, let's say one of them, like when you work on three, one of them starts to look kind of good and you kind of like it.
And then you get afraid of ruining. And so you're more hesitant because you're invested in having it continue to be good. And so, you should start to work on other things.
Because you don't care about them so much or you just don't think that they're really working out. So like in the course of a collage that I'm keeping everyone moving so we're continuing anyway because,
What I want them to figure out by the end is this one they thought sort of sucked, doesn’t.
Like they were they took bigger risks. They did more interesting things. They tried something because they weren't so invested.
And then they got a really interesting result. And then when they're really clinging to something because it's starting to look really good. It's harder to take a risk, it's harder to even…
You know, our desire for something to be good overrides our desire for something to be true.
And then we just get there. And when I'm like that with my work, I just have to give it a ton of space. I just sit there long enough for me to be willing to ruin it again. You know what's interesting is sometimes when you take a long enough break for something like that.
Your opinion of what's good and what's been changed in that intro. And I think that's what allows you to keep moving with it. So I think when we get attached to an outcome, it's like--
We hit, I want to say like it's just a narrowing point in our groove and it's too tight to move through.
They're like, "Okay, maybe I need to back off and like grow limb over here or something. I need to do something."
Because then when I come back and look at work from last year or six months ago, even a week ago.
What I've learned in the meantime, working on all these other projects has informed my new opinion of what's good or what's allowable. Sometimes I'll look back and go, "Oh, why did I ever think that it wasn't already finished?" Or I'll go like, "Oh, I thought that was great, but it's like so boring to me now."
Or like I thought that was finished. Oh my goodness, that's not finished. Oh, yeah.
I know that dude x, y, and z but it needed that huge cushion. I always think of it as a cushion.
And that's why if you work on just one thing, it makes it very difficult to give it a cushion because you're either working on it or you're not.
But if you have many things, or a few things in the fire. You can turn your gaze. You know, I think of it as like,
I grew up in a family of four. And as people left for college, I thought, well, I'm not used to mom staring at me this much. You know, like now she's much more focused on me and my little sister.
We don't like it. You know, like, we need to go up over there and you get worried about him. Can she do something that, you know, like, stop looking at me. And I feel like our work is like that too.
That's so brilliant. Okay, so I think if we were to leave listeners with some nuggets of wisdom and a way to bring it back into their physical lived experience.
I would say, yeah, allowing yourself some space to breathe around your project, recognizing that our timelines we're allowed to expand them out. So no matter what it is that you're beginning or continuing this year from last year.
Remember that the timeline isn't finish it all in one fell swoop.
It's a conversation with your life and you get to live it and enjoy it. So if you find yourself getting really stressed out and frustrated and like, why isn't this happening exactly the way I wanted it right this moment?
What you just said is like what if you had something else to turn your focus towards even just for a little while and allow what you've already started to be a placeholder that seems like a really brilliant piece of wisdom.
So that when you're moving through the summer and heading towards the fall, you're then able to look back at more perspective and go, "Okay, what did work?"
What was allowed enough space to grow, what happened naturally anyway, and how am I feeling about it on the other side of the year?
Rather than making our time went so narrow and tight and stressful because we have enough stress.
Like we can point this energy in where we want.
That's right. And what you said about actually taking the time to evaluate, I think that's so big and it's so easy to ignore that.
I need to do that myself, really. Well, here's what I would say to you is, the natural tendency right now is not to be evaluating. I feel like that comes more in the fall for me anyway.
Oh yeah, that's what you were saying like later.
Yeah, like later, because I feel like right now is like we're still on the edge of this dreaming and wanting to bring a lot of things to life. So I think it's…
I think we're trying to find directions of movement that feel more natural.
And if we find that we're really stuck on one direction, maybe it's important to go, maybe I need another project that has a direction as well so that I can bounce off and have a conversation between the two and see what's going on.
'Cause I think that could be really regulating for us, rather than getting caught in one thing or like you said having all of your eggs in one basket is really stressful.
But if you have two or three, you're not only looking at one, you can relax a little bit. It's going to be okay. That's right. And when you are like much later on, because you didn't try to force something to be finished.
That's when you can do that evaluating once down the road or see like, oh, it's interesting how I thought I wanted this, but now I see I want that for this one.
Oh yeah, that's going to open. Yeah, yeah. And I think that is so important. And the thing also about finishing.
I think people need to realize this. The last 10% of any project usually takes as much time as the first 90.
I have a large bag. That is important. I think it's very true. It's all this honing. It's all this refining. It's all these smaller motions, gestures, touches. The big global things have happened.
But for it to really get finished, it needs these things that, you know, like for our artwork, that might be a lot of staring.
Oh yeah. I think like with a sewing project I spend so much time trying to figure out
How am I making this bag? Like what are the components? Is there going to be pockets? If so, how am I getting them to… which fabrics and which way how many needles have I snapped on the line?
Like you said, all of that took a really long time and the last 10% is me actually doing the stitching and then correcting and refining and going, "No, that didn't work great." Or, "Oops." Or using that layer.
Yeah, or realize I'm like nope that pocket wasn't big enough like do it again and suddenly it comes together.
And I think that's something that we intuitively see. We watch something come together and we think it's instantaneous for other people.
But when I'm doing it, I've now come to notice, like, okay, when it finally comes together, yes, there is an instant in which it's done.
And it took me three months. That's right. It didn't happen. Like I had the idea and that I was gathering materials and I was looking at my materials.
And then I have my sewing machine set up like I do right now and then there was all of the stuff that went into figuring out:
How am I layering these materials and making it happen? And then asking questions and coming back and making mistakes.
What people see as the final product. What I'm happy to show you is, yay, look, I made this cool thing.
But the reality of it is that took so much time and effort and it spilled on the back of my entire experience. Like, I couldn't make this bag 10 years ago. I didn't have the skill to do it.
So the fact that I can look at something and go, "Oh, that looks interesting," and then just noodle it out in my mind, is a skill set that I earned.
And that's true. You know, like, and we all have that going on in our lives is that you have skill sets that you've earned that you're now taking for granted.
And sometimes when you complete something, yeah, for can celebrate that you completed something because I guarantee you it didn't happen today. It happened over ten years.
You know, in the making, right, 10 years worth of it. And also like, it's also important to remember that.
You can run into an obstacle or a skill obstacle where you can't, it's too hard. It feels too hard. You can't figure it out.
And so that also can need a cushion, but it's also good to give yourself a strategy in there so that you just don't walk away completely.
And like I think with the sewing it would be so something simpler. You know like okay this sleeve with this material is giving me a really hard time.
I don't know what I need. Fix that. I'll make a little zipper bag.
But this comes right back to what you're saying about having multiple projects and I find that intuitively I do that too because I've got my ironing board over there with like seven things on it so that there's the project that I want to make that's my big dream.
And then there's the 15 things that I already know how to do. That when I'm feeling really upset, I can go back to and get an easy win.
I think that's a great gift to give people is to say like you have things in your life that are an easy win and maybe
And now is a great time to think about what those are so that you have them in a grab bag for when you're stressed out and you just need an easy win.
You can go to that and go, "You know what? I'm just going to do that one quick thing." It's really rewarding that I know how to do that I can be proud of.
Everyone has something. That's right, making a sauce. Whatever it is. Organizing a drawer.
Doesn't matter. No, it doesn't matter because we need those feel good moments because that is one, it's the break that you need that allows the inspiration to come. So it's like sometimes just putting something in my closet and forgetting about it for two or three months.
It's weird, like I'll have a dream or wake up and suddenly I'm like, how do I suddenly know how to do this?
And it's not that I suddenly know how to do it, it's that I've had enough time digesting and having other input in my life that my brain has had enough time to put it together and figure it out.
But it's never going to break if you don't rest. There's no chance for your brain to do all this magic for us.
And it's not either or, like you didn't know how to do that, but you don't pursue that as a permanent state. And so it's a temporary state even if that state is temporary state is months.
That's okay and sometimes not, I wasn't focusing on that project the whole time either. Like taking the break was not with the purpose of figuring it out.
It was to give my brain time away from that and focus on something else. So I think it's important that we build that flexibility in and say, you know, if I've gotten really caught in something that is like hitting that wall. How can I support and nurture myself?
And give myself enough time to relax and feel like me again and feel proud of myself in other ways because weirdly, I don't know why, it just does. It serves you.
Your brain will somehow figure it out or you'll have enough space that you'll like the right video will come to you or you'll meet the right person that has that skill set and fills that gap.
But it'll be when you're not looking for it. It's weird, it's like when people say like when you find the person of your dreams, it's like when you lose to expect it and you give it up and you've looked away, I was like yeah, it's kind of like-- -
Right, you're in the 7/11 and you haven't showered for three days you know, and you're wearing your mother's coat. You know, that's when you're gonna...
But that's how life works sometimes and it's okay that it's that bizarre and weird.
Because it's really about not forcing. Yeah. And making sure that like we're and believing it not forcing and trusting in that and trusting in your allowing yourself.
All right, this has been an amazing conversation. Thank you so much. Thank you back. I just had a great time.
I'm so glad. Alright, so before we close out, I want to invite people listening to really think about where their desire is right now.
Coming into this energetic season. Maybe feeling like you want to change everything in your life and start some new things, to really give it a moment to settle and go okay, what are the one or two or three things that feel really exciting and good to nourish?
And think of this as this process. Just like we discussed that there's going to be ups and downs. We have to allow for things to use to surprise us and grow in unexpected ways.
To trust that we have what it takes to make something happen and that maybe, just maybe, it doesn't have to happen on society's timeline, and it can happen on a human real lived timeline for us.
And I think if we did that, that could be a really nourishing way to kick off this season.
I'm curious, what you would say to them as well. If you're feeling that urge to get something started, what's the last piece of advice you would want them to remember?
Rome wasn’t built in a day. And I do think that that urge, we can honor the urge that's an excitement to want to try new things.
And maybe that excitement is a spring thing connected to anger as well.
They can be flip sides. And just that each step helps you on the next step.
And so just focusing on that first step and giving it time to breathe will help you know what your next step is,
And when you can really honor that pace as you were saying, then I think you start to really experience your projects, your dreams as…
As you know your way of moving through the world, as your gift to yourself as yourself, you being you.
Respecting how that flows, respecting that timeline.
Sarah, I’d love to reconnect with you in September and have like the other half of the year conversation to see like okay…
How did our projects go? What did happen and talk about it in a real practical way because at that point,
We will have already lived some of this stuff and we'll have some concrete examples to say like this is actually how it plays out.
It doesn't always happen overnight and some of the things that we're starting now may not even be done and we will be evaluating them that time of year which I think will be cool.
Aw, that sounds great.
Oh, thank you so, so much. So thanks everybody for joining this special episode of Sarah Bush.
Sarah, where can people find you? Well, you can find me in two places really and on sub-stack at SarahBush.Substack.com and Sarah has an H: S-A-R-A-H B-U-S-H.
And then also my art website, which is SarahBushArtworks.com.
So all of those links are going to be in the show notes. And I just want to thank you all again for joining us for this bonus special episode and on Monday we're going to be coming back talking about how we move through this energy without burning out,
And over the next week talking about how to set boundaries that really help you protect all of this creative and inspirational energy that you're having so that you have a chance to let it take hold in the first place.
All right, thank you so much and I will see you guys on Monday.
🌿 Continue Exploring This Spring Transition
- Ep 23: How to Use Spring Energy Without Burning Out
- Ep 24: Why Setting Boundaries Feels So Uncomfortable at First (And Why It Gets Easier)
- Ep 22: The Urge to Reinvent Yourself in Spring: How to Change Without Burning Out
- Ep 29: How to Decide What to Keep Doing (and What to Let Go Of)
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