I have to ask myself this question regularly! Just to make sure.

After all, the landscape of my mind IS prime real estate!

The game of life is played, won, and lost in the mind. There doesn’t seem to be tie games.

And how often do we give fear, doubt, and worry permission to live rent-free?!  All the time, too often, all day every day, seems to be the answer!

Fear is the squatter here. YOU are the one with the rights. YOU own the land.

Want to know a secret?

The Creative Healing Process begins the eviction process! Whoa, yeah, baby!

You mean color, and simple acts of intentional creativity sends fear and her cohorts packing?

Yep.

Choosing to engage a creative healing process, however short or long, can evict the squatter.

It can transform trauma and help you build the muscle for a new way of being.

Another gift of creativity is it connects you to your intuition, guidance, and wisdom.

All those delights are already in you, it’s just that if fear is squatting in YOUR headspace, you’re locked out from the goods.

Creativity is your key to unlock and get to these goods. Then you’ll see that they’ve been there all along. They ARE you. That it’s not possible to hold them back now or ever.

There are a few really cool words in the word ‘create’…eat, art, tree, ate, tea, cat (let me know if you see more)…and all those words are precious to me.

I also think it’s interesting that those words are all about nourishment. Creativity is one of the most nourishing happenings I’ve found. It’s right up there with being in nature, chocolate, meditation, and sex.

Seriously.

If you don’t believe me, check it out for yourself. Using your hands to intentionally create something. To bring something into form. To cause something to change.

It’s magical.

If someone had told me that 25yrs. ago I would have brushed it off as ‘over the top’, been judgmental, and thought, ‘this is certainly not for me’.

But, you know how when we’re really judgmental and critical about something, it often comes back around to show itself otherwise? Just like the ‘never say never’ phenomenon!

After SO many creative healing processes that have transformed old beliefs, traumas, and fears, and given me a way to re-create myself…I’m a believer now. I get it. Not because someone told me, but because I live it, and it’s in me, and I own it.

That happened one step at a time. One intention at a time. One release at a time.

It’s alchemy. We are talking about a process (creativity) that literally changes lead to gold. Fear to love. Pain to ease.

That’s true alchemy.

I took a 12 week course based on the Artist’s Way about 23yrs. ago (looking back, that was Spirit’s way of nudging me in the direction of creativity, so was dating artists, but that’s a story for another time!).

The course asked me to look for color in my day. To look for beauty in the crevices of life. And the famous ‘artists date’ where you take yourself out on a weekly date to appreciate beauty, creativity, and art.

Those were great places to start because it helped me widen my narrow view of the fact that creative life force is everywhere and in everything. I was building my creative foundation.

If you want to start playing with it too, I’d LOVE to hear what you discover. And if you’d like a kick-ass way to kick-start your creative healing process, I’d love to gift you with an e-book, you can click here to get it:

 Yes! I’d love to Kick-start My Creative Healing