The Moderately Tortured Artist

There are far too many of us feasting on our own shame and whipping ourselves because we're "not doing it right" and by "it" I mean LIFE.

There's so much anxiety around making the "wrong choice" and many of us put our power in the hands of self help gurus, hoping they have the answer so we can follow their strategy and finally - GET. IT. RIGHT.

My hope is that this episode calms your nervous system and helps you reconnect with what's true for YOU and deepens your own self trust. Because THERE IS NO ONE "RIGHT" WAY.

This is an ode to transition. The times in your life where nothing feels solid. You're shifting and changing and untethered.

How can we best navigate our time spent wading through the messy middle? How can we show up with more grace and self compassion? Where are the lessons we're tempted to look away from?

I share my story of the last 4 months and what's helping me as I wait for the ground to stop shaking in the hope that it'll being you some solace when you too are swimming in the unknown.

I know you want it. Some days the yearning might be so strong that you can almost taste it.

You want MORE. You want to BE MORE. But the HOW feels elusive, hard and often futile.

This is a nudge for you if you have been working on rewriting your beliefs, creating a bolder, more joyful version of yourself who feels more comfortable in their own skin, but the wheels have fallen off. Not once. Not twice. But dozens if not hundreds of times.

This is a battle cry to rally all of us toiling with the process of becoming our version 2.0 selves and a conversation about the reality of what that looks like.

The biting of tongues. The constant questioning. The bending for everyone around us.

Worrying that we're too much. That we're not enough. Taking on the opinions of others as gospel.

This is an episode for the "good girls". The self sacrificers. The people pleasers.

Those of us who have been (or still are) hiding parts of ourselves or shrinking in the hope that we won't rock the boat.

This is a call for liberation.

And the blog post I mention lives here: https://thatsweetroar.com/blog/hiding-yourself-confidence-as-a-singer

Many of us have never had to process fear in this way before. Deal with anxiety on such a grand scale. Uncertainty around just about every area of our lives and no end date.

This episode is meant to put that to one side for a moment and focus on the BUTs, the What Ifs.

What if this heartbreaking chain of events could be a doorway to more compassion, more consideration and more generosity?

My intention is for these words to be a balm for those of us with both heavy, aching hearts AND high hopes for the future.

Why is it that we shudder at the word "artist" when it's about ourselves? Why do we struggle to label what it is we create as "art"?

In this episode I'm unpacking the heaviness and the expectation and the rules we place around the words "art" and "artist" in the hope that you'll claim it for yourself.

You will never be given a green light into owning the status or being accepted into the club.

The good news? You get to own it for yourself and take the weight and obligation out of it to boot.

My desire for you is to live artfully and with 150% glee. Because who wouldn't want that?

How far down your list of priorities do you think Creativity lives?

For many of us he's relegated to the "nice to have" category always trumped by his less fun, more pushy older brother Productivity.

I wanted to share a little about what has unshackled my Creativity recently and how I think we can all get a slice.

As always, it requires some bold questions, restless discomfort and a whole heap of courage. Are you in?

This episode is a frank discussion about failure. Fun huh? I think one of the reasons we fear failing so much is because we consider it embarrassing, shameful and therefore want to bury it and never speak of it again.

So in the hope that this gives you some sense of freedom around your own perceived failures, I'm going to divulge mine.

Because surely the more we talk about failing, the less power it'll have over us. And wouldn't that be frickin freeing?

One of the questions people lob my way most often is along the lines of "How do you get so much done or make so much happen?"

My go-to excuses for not making magic in my life or diving into all the creations/projects I want to explore are just as wiley as yours.

It's how I wrangle them (and how often) that makes all the difference. So let's go down that burrow shall we?

This episode is about disconnection and discontentment and how a few simple practices could be a beautiful and powerful answer.

I wanted to share how tapping back into my body, intuition and the concept of embodiment has dramatically shifted how I feel in my life and how it could do the same for you.

So are you willing to tune in, listen and act from a place of connection over analysis?

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