Connecting The Dots - Because despite appearances, the dots are not placed at random.
So often it can feel as though our lives should be heading on a clear, direct trajectory - finding our passion and achieving our goals - yet in reality, our path of learning and growth is much more like that of a numberless dot-to-dot picture.It can be really hard to articulate what kind of picture we are creating, because the truth is that it's not until we look back at the end of a particular season that we can really begin to see the beauty we've been slowly cultivating.Think of this podcast as a companion on the journey - I'm busy connecting my own dots of artistry, motherhood and everything in between, and as I share what I am learning, I hope to encourage and inspire you to trust your process and lean in to the journey.Original Artwork - Eleanor Oliver & Cassie HubertOriginal Music - Cassie Hubert.
Episodes
63 episodes
062 Comfy Clothes and Setting Yourself Up Well
Comfort can fall into two extremes. We either chase and practically idolise it, trying to get our lives to exist permanently in our perfect comfort zone - or we resist it everywhere, seeing it as less than, and an enemy to our growth...
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Season 62
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16:10
061 Birthdays 2 - Self Love & Care
Continuing on the birthday processing, from Episode 058 - Age Is But A Number, today I am thinking about how we can put a lot of pressure on our birthdays to make us feel a certain way. Perhaps if we focused more on fill...
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Episode 61
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16:47
060 Personal Style, Pleasing Your Artistry & Feeling Like Yourself
I'm no 'Personal Style Guru', I mean I've learnt a few things and am much clearer on the colours that suit me best and make me feel like I look awake, alive and healthy - but I do think that learning to honour our preferences and use what we've...
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Episode 60
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16:28
059 Performative Learning
How often as a kid at school were you told to show your workings out?In certain situations (eg. maths exams) this is to our benefit, in order to help someone understand our process and give us clarity on how to get to where we are tryin...
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Episode 58
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15:36
058 Age Is But A Number
Birthdays can be tricky for many of us, feeling like milestones and marker points in our lives, yet they don't always coincide with where we hoped or thought we'd be. But what if age really was just a number, and the real marker points wh...
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Episode 57
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15:30
057 Productivity Isn't For Every Season
In nature there are laws of seed time, and harvest... some plants spend ages underground before emerging , but then grow rapidly, bloom and die, whereas others are slow to grow at all, yet last longer, growing from strength to strength....
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Episode 56
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14:24
056 It's Been A Minute! **Podcast Update**
Hi there you lovely listeners!So for those of you who have been listening a while, you may have noticed the sporadic output and the near radio silence for over a year. Burnout, life and moving have played a huge part in that, s...
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Episode 56
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10:18
055 Softening Isn't Stupidity
Have you ever been told that in order to survive and get on in this world, you need to develop a thick skin?Maybe you've been led to believe that softness is weakness (and not in a good way), and that to be soft is to be less-than.W...
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Season 6
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Episode 9
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16:04
054 - Embracing the Stop/Start
How often do you find that you have big plans or ideas, but then fail to be able to execute them because of... well... Life? Perhaps you long to fulfill a big project, but it's slow going due to ongoing health needs, or family commitments o...
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Season 6
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Episode 8
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15:48
053 - Feeling It!
Making art requires connection to our emotions and physical sensations... the more connected we are, the better able we are to create work that resonates.However, we can mistake this need to be in touch with our feelings with a sense that w...
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Season 6
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Episode 7
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16:22
052 Personal growth in the hidden places (or Not Showing Your Workings!)
When you can't see what's happening below the surface, it can cause us to worry whether anything is actually happening at all - whether we are discussing personal growth or creative development. Yet what if the deepest work, that gets us to the...
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Season 6
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Episode 6
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16:20
051 Time Travelling
When making creative work (and also being in healthy relationships) a lot of value is placed on being able to be present. You can't actually make something that is in the past - it has already passed us by. Neither can we create something in th...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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14:29
050 That Is The Quest!
We all have moments of self doubt, and when we are pursuing a path that is more off the beaten track, it can feel really hard, and sometimes lonely, when we doubt our choices. Yet if we see our creative and personal lives as being part of a que...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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16:04
049 Not Judging Our Ideas
How often do you judge your ideas (or people - guilty here) too soon and without the full picture? For our creativity to thrive and our ideas to flow, we need to leave judgement at the door. Once we have got the idea or...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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15:07
048 What are you being drawn to?
How often do we ignore the pull towards something, because we feel we should be doing something else right now?What if we were to be more responsive to those things which do draw us, trusting that we will come back to the shoulds more easil...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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15:52
047 Hibernating And Spotting Patterns
** Welcome to season 6 of Connecting The Dots!***After the darkest season of Winter, yet before Spring is sprung, join me as I deep dive into all things creativity, artistry, parenting, self-care, personal growth, relationshi...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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15:52
046 Waiting In Darkness
As the days get shorter and darker and we look forward to the coming of the lights of Christmas and hope for the light of new life and creativity in Spring, it can feel as though the waiting is forever.When a difficult season drags, it can ...
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Season 5
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Episode 13
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17:50
045 Gathering In
Christmas is getting closer, and all the energy is ramping up as we prepare for the coming festivities, but as we enter the season of Advent, maybe we can take a little bit of time to gather inwards, with our thoughts and feelings and with our ...
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Season 5
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Episode 12
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13:30
044 Comfort, Cuppas & Good Stories
Stories are powerful ways of helping us make sense of the world and our own experiences. Even more so, our own personal stories and the way we engage with and express them. It's not about spin, but framing does matter, because our stories...
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Season 5
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Episode 11
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11:40
043 You Have A Voice Worth Hearing
I think that we can often feel that our voice (aka what we have to contribute) is not really either valuable or important, and that what we might think or want to say isn't worth sharing.But I disagree. I am convinced that each of u...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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16:02
0042 No Fixed Outcome?
How often to we come up against resistance in our attempts to move forward because we are hanging on to a specific picture of what the result should be? We have a fixed outcome in mind - if I do this, or make so and so do that, then the res...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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14:48
041 Eat, Rest, Sleep
When we are in the thick of a grieving season, sometimes it can be all we can do to feed ourselves. In this episode, I explore what self care can look like when we are trying to survive the worst of our grief.
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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14:16
040 Finding delight in unexpected places
Delight and joy can come from unexpected places, but often in stressful seasons, we can find it really hard to notice them and allow ourselves to receive the gift of them.I have found that learning to be attentive, lean in and enjoy the...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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14:42
039 Grieving Well
There is no one perfect trajectory for grief. There is only allowing ourselves to be where we are and be gentle with ourselves in the process of grieving.Today I talk about ways we can lean in to grieving well, without sacrificing o...
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Season 5
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20:48
038 Stepping Stones & Plodding
Definition of Plod - Slow moving and unexciting.How often can our progress through life and especially difficult seasons of trauma and grief feel slow and unexciting, like we will never fly, or come through the worst of our pain into so...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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15:12