Nurturing Relationships through Creative Resilience: Jenni Grover

"There's opportunities to play and find joy and creativity, but we have to really look for them, and that goes for this tiny moment in world history of pandemic, it goes for living life with chronic illness - It just helps us feel like there's more to this life than what's right here in front of us.”

– Jenni grover

Summary: 

Eva was joined this week by Jenni Grover, the founder of the School of Creative Resilience, where she teaches people how to tap into their innate creativity, grow it as a resource, and use it to boost resilience and joy. She currently offers 1:1 coaching, digital courses, in-person workshops, and consulting services.

Jenni’s passion for teaching creative resilience evolved through 15 years of experience as a professional patient advocate. Through her organization, ChronicBabe, she taught sick folks how to craft incredible lives beyond illness... with a focus on resilience. Her website, videos, social media, and speeches around the world—as well as her book, ChronicBabe 101: How to Craft an Incredible Life Beyond Illness—reached countless people. 

For 31 years (the past 18 as an entrepreneur), Jenni has collaborated with hundreds of media outlets and organizations worldwide. Today, she’s happily focused on lifting up others and bringing more creativity into the world.   

Learn more about Jenni and connect:

JenniGrover.com

CreativeResilience.com

Instagram and a more personal Instagram

School of Creative Resilience on Facebook

Take The Daily Creative, a course on creativity

In this episode, Jenni and Eva discuss:

how to be playful and bring lightness to life by bringing creativity to the mundane, the simple day-to-day things 

how relationships play an important role in building up our resilience

how creative external expression of self can be a safety and copy strategy

Jenni’s links:

JenniGrover.com

CreativeResilience.com

Instagram and a more personal Instagram

School of Creative Resilience on Facebook

Take The Daily Creative, a course on creativity

Time Stamps

0:00-intro

4:30- feeling “different”

5:55 - teaching other people how to thrive

7:11- defining creative resilience

11:00 - improv class story

12:36 - what creative resilience looks like for others

14:00 - creative process being like a lifestyle etc.

17:45- being creative and simplicity

18:21 - who is a safe person to show weird creative side to

12:10 - how to establish creative relationships during the pandemic

23:00 being playful

23:54 - therapy and inner childhood

24:50 - bathroom remodel story

26:00- weight of the pandemic and of chronic illness

27:50 - chronic babe

29:20- supportive entrepreneurship

31:25 - quilting about abuse

32:20 - making friends through the pandemic

32:51- friends in person vs over zoom calls etc. when you have chronic illness

34:26 - how you make friends when you have chronic illness

35:16 - intentional commitment

40:00 - does talking about chronic illness make it better/worse?

44:00 - pink hair - 49:00

53:00- chronic illness and possibility

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