Creative Nectar: Talks & Tools for Heart-Centered Living in a Changing World

It’s perfectly natural to compare - our brains are wired for it. However, when we insert  value judgments into the mix, things can get messy. Comparing ourselves to another or others (creatively or otherwise) and believing we are somehow less than can dampen our creative spark  both inside and outside the studio. Join Jenny and Steph as they dive deeper into this topic and share stories and practices to help manage "comparison despair".

Resources:
Martha Graham quote
Wild Geese poem by Mary Oliver

Join our Creative Nectar Online Community! Our private Facebook group is our free tier, open to all. The paid monthly membership includes live Zoom gatherings and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com
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Check out Jenny's new book, an essential resource for your creative journey: Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence

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(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

To live authentically means to live in alignment with your deepest truth and to express from that place of inner connection and belonging. It goes beyond your social roles, obligations, and the masks we all wear to get by in the day-to-day world. Join Jenny and Stephanie as they share stories, prompts, and creative tools for discovering your truest self and creating space for new identities that are wanting to emerge.

Resources:
Wisdom of the Shadow oracle deck

Join our Creative Nectar Online Community! Our private Facebook group is our free tier, open to all. The paid monthly membership includes live Zoom gatherings and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com
(Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)

Check out Jenny's new book, an essential resource for your creative journey: Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence

**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**

Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudio

Follow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art
(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

What is joy and how can we bring more of it into our lives? How can creativity actually support us in cultivating more happiness and positive experiences, despite our evolutionary tendency to focus on the negative and what could go wrong? Join Steph and Jenny for reflections, personal stories and creative expression practices you can do to cultivate more joy in your own life. 

Join our Creative Nectar Online Community! Our private Facebook group is our free tier, open to all. The paid monthly membership includes live Zoom gatherings and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com
(Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)

Check out Jenny's new book, an essential resource for your creative journey: Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence

**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**

Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudio

Follow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art
(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

Grief can show up at unexpected times and take many forms, from the enduring sadness after a loss or death, to the emptiness of change and endings, to the pain of never having had something in life. Grief is natural, and it’s important to offer it a safe space when it arises. Join Steph and Jenny as they share stories of meeting grief and offer tools for working with it creatively.

Additional Resources:
Stephanie's article: The Big Squeeze, Grief and the Medicine of Now

Join our Creative Nectar Online Community! Our private Facebook group is our free tier, open to all. The paid monthly membership includes live Zoom gatherings and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com
(Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)

Check out Jenny's new book, an essential resource for your creative journey: Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence

**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**

Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudio

Follow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art
(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

How are you relating to the feeling of anger? What are your beliefs about anger in general, and how are you meeting it in your life? Join Steph and Jenny for a deep dive into anger, creativity and how creativity can not only help us process the feelings in a healthier way, but also how anger can fuel our creative process.

Additional resources:

• How Anger Can Enhance Creativity
• Steph’s Article

Join our Creative Nectar Online Community! Our private Facebook group is our free tier, open to all. The paid monthly membership includes live Zoom gatherings and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com
(Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)

Check out Jenny's new book, an essential resource for your creative journey: Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence

**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**

Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudio

Follow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art
(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

Have you ever missed out on an opportunity (creative or otherwise) or lived life in a smaller way because of fear? What would it be like if you were able to get curious about that fear and in some cases, even befriend it? Join Jenny and Steph as they discuss their own experiences with fear and how they were able to creatively meet it. They’ll also share some tools to help you when you encounter fear in your own life.

Join our Creative Nectar Online Community! Our private Facebook group is our free tier, open to all. The paid monthly membership includes live Zoom gatherings and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com
(Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)

Check out Jenny's new book, an essential resource for your creative journey: Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence

**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**

Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudio

Follow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art
(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

Does the fear of making a mistake or doing it “wrong” ever keep you from trying something new? Creative expression requires risk… It's through our willingness to release attachments to results and see things differently that true creativity flourishes! Join Jenny & Stephanie for tips and practices for moving through perceived “mistakes” into the magic of spontaneity and new creative discoveries.

Additional Resources:
Jenny's new book Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence
Shawn McNiff’s book Trust the Process
Herbie Hancock YouTube video talking about Miles Davis
Pema Chodron's book When Things Fall Apart

Join our Creative Nectar Online Community! Our private Facebook group is our free tier, open to all. The paid monthly membership includes live Zoom gatherings and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com
(Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)

Check out Jenny's new book, an essential resource for your creative journey: Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence

**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**

Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudio

Follow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art
(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

What does creativity have to do with healing? Studies show that engaging in any creative process can be healing on multiple levels. Whether you make a simple doodle, look at art or talk about it, creativity can help restore wholeness, increase wellbeing and provide greater meaning to your life. Join Jenny and Steph as they share personal healing stories as well as some tools for your own healing journey.

Additional Resources:

Steph's blog: "Pain, My Shadow, and the Color Pink"
Steph's blog: "Shadow Work: The Big Pay-Off"
Article: "The Connection Between Creativity and Healing"
Study: The Connection Between Art, Healing, and Public Health

Join our Creative Nectar Online Community! Our private Facebook group is our free tier, open to all. The paid monthly membership includes live Zoom gatherings and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com
(Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)

Check out Jenny's new book, an essential resource for your creative journey: Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence

**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**

Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudio

Follow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art
(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

Whose voice is that in your head tearing down you and your work? Listen in as your hosts share openly about their own inner critics… plus find out what exactly an inner critic is and how to creatively meet and transcend those critical voices in this powerful and candid episode.

Join our Creative Nectar Online Community! Our private Facebook group is our free tier, open to all. The paid monthly membership includes live Zoom gatherings and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com
(Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)

Check out Jenny's new book, an essential resource for your creative journey: Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence

**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**

Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudio

Follow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art
(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

What is mindfulness and how does it fit with a creative practice? Your hosts Jenny and Stephanie share stories and personal experiences around mindfulness and creativity, offering tips on how a creative practice can support any mindfulness journey – especially if traditional techniques haven’t worked for you.

Additional Resources:

• Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program, hosted by Sounds True
• Tara Brach's website
• Jack Kornfield's website

Join our Creative Nectar Online Community! Our private Facebook group is our free tier, open to all. The paid monthly membership includes live Zoom gatherings and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com
(Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)

Check out Jenny's new book, an essential resource for your creative journey: Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence

**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**

Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudio

Follow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art
(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)