What if creativity is less about what you make — and more about how you feel, receive, and respond?

In this episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with performer, director, researcher, and PhD candidate Kay Tuckerman to explore creativity as an embodied, healing exchange — where art becomes a bridge between body, intuition, spirit, and science.

Before you listen:

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Kay shares her journey from Broadway stages to holistic research, unpacking the non-linear nature of creativity, the grief of creative interruption, and how art reconnects us to our humanity when productivity fails us.

This is a conversation about remembering the body, honoring intuition, and allowing creativity to heal what performance and pressure cannot.

⏱️ Episode Chapters

00:24 – Creativity as healing

02:58 – Process over product

07:37 – Reclaiming creative value

11:24 – Belonging and creative identity

14:38 – Illness, injury, and reinvention

18:44 – Broadway and embodied devotion

24:32 – Art as shared humanity

25:30 – Shamanism and creativity

36:42 – Somatic exchange and meaning

41:02 – Returning to the child within

🌐 Connect with Kay Tuckerman

Website: https://kayetuckerman.com

Instagram: @kayetuckerman

🌐 Connect with Meg Tuohey

HeartPrint: https://megantuohey.com

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