This Is Soul Therapy

16. Roots of Creative Fulfillment: Creating Magic Through Inner Work, Healing, Manifestation, and Intentional Living

• Jennifer Hulley • Episode 16

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Welcome, creatives! In this episode, we delve into the practical aspects of creative empowerment, focusing on the profound concept of 'as above, so below' in the realm of manifesting and creativity for artists. Drawing insights from 'The Source' by Dr. Tara Swart and 'Super Attractor' by Gabby Bernstein, we explore actionable steps to align your beliefs with your aspirations, providing a clear path to overcome self-sabotage. Whether you're seeking to transition from dreaming to creating or looking for tools to foster a resilient mindset, this episode offers tangible advice. Join us for a practical discussion that emphasizes the interconnected nature of manifesting and creativity, delivering actionable takeaways for artists ready to challenge barriers and cultivate their creative confidence.

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This is Soul Therapy. I'm Jen Hully, your host and therapeutic arts practitioner, creativity coach and photographer, obsessed with empowering others to build creatively fulfilling lives. This week we're talking about manifesting intention setting inner work, deep healing and what that means for your creative ideas, your vision and potential. Welcome back, everybody. I hope you've had a great week and if you've had a challenging week, that can still be a great week. Remember, there are glimmers abound. There are small moments of joy or ease or just pleasure that have been sprinkled throughout the day when things are really, really rough. We talked about this last week in the Daily Therapeutic Photography Practice, about cultivating gratitude and making sure that that's rooted in authentic gratitude, right, and that gratitude can be micro, it doesn't have to be massive things. So before we dive in, I challenge you or I invite you Challenge sounds so aggressive. I'll say I invite you to just think back on your week and try to think of one thing that went well or was enjoyable, and for me I will say it was the sunshine that was out this weekend. Oh, my god.

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My son and I spent hours outside both Saturday and Sunday and it wasn't even warm. It was like three degrees Celsius, which is still pretty friggin cold, but it felt like spring. Birds were chirping, animals were running around. I saw a kid in shorts and I was like that's a bit much. But that's what it's like in Canada. We get a little bit of sunshine and people are like, hot damn, bring out the sandals. I still think the shorts were a little bit much because I was cold, but you do, you, and maybe that person felt great, and who are we to judge? Right, but that was my glimmer was just the amount of sunshine and outdoor time that we got.

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We went skating. There was a little local rink that popped up that was like completely free and they had free skate rentals. And my son and I actually went to go to the art gallery. They have like a living library space in there where it's a makerspace, like a collage room. Basically you can go in and play with all these arts and crafts materials. And he was so excited and we got down there and it had been removed, like it was gone. They had taken it out for some new display. And he was just so upset and I was like, oh, it's okay. I was like let's see what we can do to sort of save this situation and I said let's just go for a walk across the road and go to the park.

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And it's when we got there that we saw that there was the ice rink and he was like I want to go skating, I want to try skating. Skating is like one of his big life dreams, along with seeing a real life rainbow. And we ticked the real life rainbow off the box a couple weeks ago and I was like I don't know. And you know I said to him I don't have my skates, you don't have skates. There's a really small countertop of like rentable skates, let's go see. And they actually had one pair that fit him and one pair that fit me.

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And it was just perfect and beautiful and like, why am I sharing this? I am sharing this to just remind us that sometimes we like set plans of what we're going to do that are going to feel great because going to that living library and that makerspace would have been amazing and creative and playful. But the universe had other plans and it just took us down this path. That actually gave us what we needed we needed to move our bodies, we needed to be in the sun, we needed to laugh and, like try something new. It was such an amazing experience and, before we get too far into this episode, let's stop and set our intention.

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I was gabbing on sharing a story. That's okay, but I want to talk about our intention setting for the episode and, like I said, we're talking about manifesting intention setting inner work, healing creativity. And why I want to talk about this is I want to have a conversation that sheds some light to help us become aware of the balance that exists in nature and how what exists in nature is a direct reflection of what exists in our own experience, and I want to do this so that we can become aware of, like, where we need to place emphasis, where we need to place energy and intention in order to create the life, the art, the experiences, the feelings that we really desire. And, as you listen to this episode, if what we're talking about resonates with you and you're like I am so ready to do this, I am ready to look at my mind and my beliefs and look at what is holding me back, and you want to feel powerful and you want to feel that rush of confidence as you create art and experiences and life manifestations that fill your soul bucket, reach out for creativity coaching.

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I've got spaces for one to one coaching. You can get details in the show notes. My email is contact at jenniferhullycom. Send me an email. We'll book a time to chat and we will go through all the different ways that this can look for you. It's very, very personalized. There is not a plug-and-play system for coaxing out your inner creator, and why we need to sit and have this conversation is to really connect on that deep level and find out, like, what is going on, what has been going on, what do you want to do and how are you feeling. And we can talk about all the different variations that creativity coaching can take for you and you can decide if it's an alignment for you right now.

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Now, nature is like amazing. First of all, it is awe-inspiring. It can be jaw-dropping, it can be punishing at times, it can be easy, but it, to me, reflects the human existence, like we are not that far from nature ourselves. We are nature existing in a human form. Right, we're all from the same source and same energy, and we're going to look at that. We're going to look at these themes of balance that exist out there and how we can take lessons from these themes and put practices into place that help us get to experience and create and have and be in and enjoy the things that we want, whether they're big or small.

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And we're going to start with our tarot card pull. Right, I set my intention. I went and sat in my corner with my crystals and talked about what it is that I wanted to talk to this in this episode, and I always ask, I say, please like, pull, guide me to a card to pull, a card that has a message in it that somebody here needs to hear. So if this message is for you, I'm glad it found you, and if it's not for you, I encourage you to still listen, because we can always take lessons from things that we don't necessarily identify with.

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And I'm using the Muse Tarot by Chris Ann. It's my favorite tarot deck. The artistry in it is amazing. But I also love the guidebook that comes with it because she has these little stories, these almost like little parables almost, or poetry, and there's little sentences and anchoring words. It's just a bit of a different approach to tarot, and the one I pulled was the five of sorts, which in this deck is the five of voices, and there is a picture it's like a mirrored image, which is actually quite interesting See, I didn't notice this as I pulled the card because the episode we're going to talk about mirroring in the universe, mirroring out in nature.

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I'm going to talk, tell you a story about this moment of like divine creation that I experienced and how it's all about mirroring and I I feel like everybody needs to see this photo, and I don't know how to do that on a podcast, but maybe I'll share it in Instagram or something I'll put it in my stories. But there's this face of a woman and it's a direct mirror image. There's a side on the left and the side on the right. She has her hand on her face and in between there's this like big hand coming out from the sky with an olive branch and there's like a starburst. Behind the olive branch there's an X, a red X, leading into both of the faces. The faces look a little distraught, not in pain, but just kind of like deep contemplative in their head about something. And it's the two sorry, the five of swords, the five of voices.

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I'm gonna read to you from her book, because I feel like I'm supposed to this week, and the key words are feeling of defeat, learning from lessons of loss, fighting, winning at all costs a time to extend an olive branch, seeing what's really important failure, being hurt, bullying. The prompt is social moths and the story says I am going to win. I am the one who deserves this. It doesn't matter who gets in my way. Nothing will stop me. I don't care what it takes to make this happen.

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The muse of five of voices looks down, reflecting back the ways we can miss what really matters as we strive to win. Sometimes we find ourselves falling victim to someone else's ambition or inequity, and other times it is ourselves who are lost. On the path to victory, we forget about how we should get there and we forgo our better interests, our integrity, our balance, our humanity in order to come out on top. Sometimes, when we win, we lose. How do you feel at the top of that ladder you are climbing? Where does it really go, and what costs are you paying to win? What fallout is associated with these costs? Seek connection and trust, ascend with friendship, forgiveness and deep compassion.

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Now, what stands out for me with this card, with this deck specifically, and this interpretation of it, is the internal conflict and the internal discord. Sometimes, traditionally in Tarot, this card can mean like, oh, you're having an argument with someone, you're fighting, or there's competition or rivalry, or you're like scrambling and climbing on top of people in order to get on top. But for me, with this pull specifically and with this conversation that we're having, it's about the inner work and the inner feelings and how we navigate experiences of setting goals, setting aspirations, climbing certain ladders and what experiences happen along that way and whether intention, whether the ladder that you're climbing is actually the ladder that you want to be on the top. Like where does it go?

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And often we set goals, specifically if we're manifesting something in our life, whether we're like we want someone to buy our art or we wanna launch a business, or we wanna find love, or we wanna, like, heal a relationship with somebody or buy a house or whatever. We set these goals of manifesting, we put these ladders that we're gonna ascend in our life and we're not really aware of where it goes. Like, when we get to that top of that ladder, are we actually going to feel fulfilled and what is gonna be required of us to go up that ladder? It's really important that we maintain that awareness of who we are, where we wanna go and build a stable structure, like a stable foundation, a ladder you don't wanna rickety old, sketchy ladder that you're gonna climb up in order to reach these things that you're aspiring for and it's important and necessary to do the work to look at. Okay, we're talking like internally here, we're not actually climbing a real ladder, but your mind is the ladder.

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So we need to think about what thoughts are framing this ascent towards this goal that we work on, how we perceive and the meaning we give to things that have encompassed loss or not winning. What did we make that mean if we pitched a client and we didn't get the gig? Or we had a client and we lost the contract with them, or somebody chose somebody else over us, like what does that feeling of defeat and loss and competition mean to us and what does it mean about us and coming to a place where we can reconcile that you know, and coming to a place where we like approach these ladders and these stairs that we wanna climb with a space of or from, a space of, like love and understanding of ourselves but also the other people in our community. There's like some thing floating around Instagram what was like collaboration over competition, right, and it's so, so true. Like she says here, it doesn't matter who gets in my way, nothing will stop me. I don't care what it takes, I'm gonna make this happen.

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And even that kind of conversation or narrative to have in your head, while it may not guide you to be outwardly aggressive to other people, it's setting a tone of aggression within yourself, right, and almost this sense of self punishment that I mean it's gotta be punishing to get to the top. And creativity does not flourish in those conditions. You know creativity Julia Cameron, is always saying it's your inner child and you need to speak to it and tend to it and care for it like you would. A child, it needs to feel safe, it needs to feel like it can play. And if you know, flashback to when you were in school and like, think of some, like old, mean teacher that was like yelling and screaming at you. What happens? You shut down.

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So we need to be aware of these thoughts and these conflict and the aggression, and whether it's channeled towards our perceived competition or ourselves, and let's start to deconstruct that right. Let's deconstruct it and let's build networks of support that are going to seem a little more inviting when it extends the hand that we're actually gonna wanna reach the hand and take that first step up that ladder. And let's segue at this point into the conversation, because I think that's a good spot to talk about balance that exists in nature, how things are patient, how we let things bloom, how things are there to support the growth and expansion, and how we can cultivate this within ourselves. And when I say the word cultivate, I immediately see this image of like a little seedling. You know those like little, tiny ones. You get at the garden center and you're like, oh, I'm gonna plant it in the ground and then I hope you don't die and I want you to. I want you to take roots and I want you to grow, because we do have to cultivate and nurture. Whatever it is that we want to bring into existence. Whether I said it's like a creative idea, if there's a project you wanna work on, or maybe it's a huge life change, like you wanna move house or whatever they all start as a seed. They all start as a teeny little seedling that doesn't really have like any roots and it goes in the soil, which is our mind and our environment, and then it's our job to make sure it doesn't die and to make sure that it gets what it needs in order to grow.

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And all of this came crashing down into my head Not really crashing, but I say crashing because it was like a download. And you know I do walks every single day. They've been really transformational for my mental health, like emotional health, spiritual health, all of it to just get outside and move my body. Joe Dispenza always says take your body for a walk, and it's not. I'm not going for a walk, I am taking my physical body for a walk because that is what my physical body needs.

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And on this day I was just walking. I don't think I was even listening to anything. I think it was just a silent walk. I wasn't doing a meditation. I might have had some music on. There's like a playlist on Spotify that I'm loving right now, called quietly cinematic. Side note if you wanna make your walks feel like you're just in this movie and be in complete awe of the amazingness that nature has in front of you, go listen to that playlist, cause it just. It gives like main character vibes in the way that we all need to be really inspired to go create stuff, but also to see things from a different lens.

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And so I was walking and it was like bitch ass cold. This was before. This is why the sun was so amazing when the sun came out this weekend, because it's been cold. It's been really cold and gray and it was one of those days where it wasn't like super cold but it was gray and it was just like the sky was one big uniform cloud. There wasn't even different clouds shaped, you know. It was just like someone had rolled out this blanket of gray and white. It was bright, but everything had this sort of like uniform backdrop of mid gray whiteness glowing and everything is empty. There's no buds on the trees, there's nothing. Obviously it's like early February, so empty branches, cloudy white skies and there's not a lot to look at visually. There's a lot of brown, there's a lot of gray, there's a lot of things broken, a lot of like leaves that have been sitting in water forever, that are just like turning into mulchie muck and whatnot.

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But this stark contrast was created in my visual field of the trees, where I actually was able to see a tree as how it exists, like in the summer. We see the big branches, we see the greenery, we see like the blossoms or whatever, but we never see the tree itself. Right, we see all the like, the decoration of the tree, or like the, I don't know, like I'm thinking like the earrings and the jewelry that the tree puts on, but the actual tree itself is the structure of the roots, the branches, the trunk, all of that. And it was only when there was nothing else to look at and everything was barren, and it was like this barren wasteland of Canadian winter that I saw this tree in front of me for what it actually was, and I looked at it and I thought I was like that looks like roots, like what was up in the sky. It looked like this tangled, gnarly mess of roots going up and into the sky.

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And as I noticed that, I had this immediate awareness flash into my head of like trees exist in a state of perfect balance, cause I could see like what is up in the sky is actually what's down below in the earth. And as I looked at this, this all kind of happens at the same time. It's like I get an image and then I get a word and then I get another word. I immediately heard like as above so below. I was like as above, so below, and I was like this tree is like the mirror inverse. The ground that we're walking on is like the middle. And you know, when you were a kid and you would like fold a paper in half and you'd put some paint down and you would sort of squish it together and open it and you'd have this like blob monster, I was like that is the tree. The tree exists as above as it does below, and I was immediately taken to the magician tarot card. So I know what I was hoping. That was the card that the universe would pull for me at the beginning of the episode for us to talk about, but it didn't. Probably because we're gonna talk about anyways.

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But these trees, they exist Like. They are the perfect embodiment of the idea behind the magician card in the tarot deck. Right, this idea that growth, both upward and outward, requires and cannot like, not just requires, will fundamentally not happen, not exist and not sustain without a really deep descent into the root system. Right, this intricate network that's building and expanding beneath the surface is what forms the stability and the strength that will then later push forward whatever is going up into the sky. Right, they're this absolute, perfect balance of strength, stability, support and then outward, upward and expansion and the magician card reminds us of that exactly that any outward expansion, anything that's gonna grow and exist and expand in nature, needs to have a foundational root system to support it. And it is exactly the same for us. Our inner work and our untapped potential has to be tended to in order for things to take shape and form in our life. Our minds are like the foundation or the garden of our life our expression, our creative expression, right, and the second image that flashed in my mind and all of this was like processing. I was like having a moment where it feels like it took like 12 hours, but it was really in like 30 seconds. These overlapping senses of knowings came. I saw the tree, I saw the roots, I saw the magician, but then I saw our brain synapses. Okay, and if you've ever seen an animation of a synapse, the way the brain wires and fires, it legit looks like roots. It's exactly the same freaking image. And I was like, okay, we got a tree here as above, so below, roots, mirroring the growth.

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Magician talking about deep inner work and foundations to manifest ideas into expression, our brain root system, expanding stability. That is what we tend to when we're making or manifesting something out into our world, and I was like damn. I was like this is not nothing, this is not nothing. That our brains literally look like the root system of a tree. Right, our minds are the root system that establish this stability, or instability, depending on what you're nurturing, that from this our ideas take shape, and so taking time to invest in the internal foundation of our mind space or mind palace or our mind circus, whatever you wanna call it, it's a daily commitment, okay, it's a daily commitment of looking at our mindset, our beliefs, our self-talk.

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There's something crazy, I feel like it's like 6,000 or 60,000 thoughts you have a day and we're not even aware of most of them. It's this process of dedicating time and energy to become aware of how we talk to ourselves, to become aware of what we believe, to become aware of what we think is possible and then identify what is supporting our ideas and our desires and our dreams and what is actually detrimental to it. There are weeds in our garden. Okay, if our mind and our thoughts and our belief are the root system societal conditioning, fear, limiting beliefs all of that are weeds that get into the soil and essentially poison and choke out anything that you're trying to create and it sounds like dark and scary, but it's not really. It's just. I want you to understand how vital this process is and it's so easy to be like oh, I have great beliefs. Nothing bothered me, whatever. If you like, went through a schooling system. I can only speak to North America. I can guarantee you you were programmed to believe that your value is directly related to how right you are, how frequently you can produce perfection, how well you can remember things, memorize things, repeat things not necessarily how divergently you can think, how much you can push boundaries, how much you can test new ideas.

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There are so many things that happen because we exist. We don't exist in isolation, right, like. We are raised in a community and we are raised in a larger society. There's a, you know, a collective consciousness that we exist in and there are societal norms and they can be really direct and saying like don't do that. And they can also be more subversive and just subtle that we don't pick up on. But a lot of what goes in our mind as we grow programs our brain to be like these are the things you have to do to be safe. These are the things that you have to do to be loved. These are the things that we have to do to be able to put food on the table, to be able to be liked by people.

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And we talked in the previous episode about like our reptile brain. It's, all you know, tangled up in that. If we think like I'm getting an image in my head of like a root ball, of like a plant, when you're going to like take a tree out and replant it, there's this like tangled mess and you got to kind of like shake it up a bit. You know what I mean. Like I've got a fiddle-fig tree that I need to replant, repot, and I've been reading about the process and it's like gently remove it from its container and then gently break up the tangled roots. Like you need to sort of break a few of the mini roots that are tapped and wrapped together. I'm also seeing like a rat king in my head. Stay with me, but you need to gently coax them and detangle them so that these roots are going to be able to go into the pot and expand and fill the new container. It's exactly the same freaking thing in our mind.

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Okay, we're not going to go in and rip out the weeds and be like fuck everybody, fuck this, because that's trauma, that can be really traumatizing and we need to support ourselves and work with ourselves in a way that we feel safe and we feel like we can play and we can take risks and try new things. Remember, your inner creative soul is your inner child. So we need to do it in a way that is gentle, that is supportive and directive, but also is like this is going to be good for you. It might not be totally comfortable, but I'm here to like hold your hand and you know I got your back. It's working with your mind that way and it's not about like a one and done. It's a continual process.

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You know you may uncover that you have a limiting belief. You may realize that, like you know what. I grew up in a family like where every time I made something and I showed my parents my art, they were just like, oh, and then they went back to what they were doing. I think I learned that what I create isn't interesting to other people. Right, you might come up with that awareness and then having that awareness once and working through it doesn't mean it's going to be gone, because it's so far into your subconscious that it'll come up again and again and again, and it's not like, oh, I'm like not good at this or I'm not good at inner work. It's just like, oh, that old chestnut, here we are, I know how to deal with this, I know how to work. You know work with this little nugget of fear that's popping up and I know how to support myself through it.

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And it's about adopting different systems and different strategies, whether you're working with, you know, meditation or hypnosis or affirmations, or even just like I want to say like a version therapy, but it's not quite that extreme but desensitization. You know desensitization therapy, where it's like you're afraid of spiders or like crazily afraid of spiders and you're going to get used to like just looking at a spider and then maybe you're going to like go to a place where spiders are like in cages, behind glass, like you're going to systematically desensitize the part of you that is scared shitless about something, to realize like, oh, this is okay. And we do that so that, like each time we have a micro experience that is positive or is supportive, it tells our brain, like you know what things are okay, because it takes a while for your brain to believe a new thought Doesn't mean you can't do it right. It takes a while, so it's important that we do all these like little micro steps, like I was saying. So we do it ongoing, like there's stuff that comes up for me that I'm like, oh, I thought I dealt with that, and just because it's back again doesn't mean that I've done anything wrong. It just means like, yeah, you're still on that path, you're still forging a path that is aligned for you and it feels a little uncomfortable because of XYZ and let's revisit this again.

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And there's so many books that can help with this. Right, there's so many books that can help and resources that can help. Like I was saying, there's meditations, there's hypnosis, there's affirmations, there's journaling, there's just systematically getting used to different experiences and proving to your brain that those fears don't exist anymore. There's things like vision boards and micro habits that we can build into our routines to actively nourish these creative seeds that we're trying to plant in our brain. And there's a couple books I want to talk about that are great for getting started with.

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This One is it's called the Source and it's by Dr Tara Swart I believe her last name is and it is a really sciencey look at manifesting. So if you're listening to this and you're like manifesting that sounds like hooh-ha and you're like what is that? Like I don't need a magic wand, this is all crap. If you're like on the fence or you're like, ah, like you're wired to be a skeptic, kudos to you. Amazing, I am like.

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My friends call me like the myth buster, like they've always been. Like here's Jen, our myth buster, because I've always been like I'm going to find out why that's not real. I've always been interested in things but I'm like, let me double check that, let me fact check that. And this was the first book that I read, to sort of dip my toe in it. And I loved it because, like, if you go straight into Esther Hicks as your first or the secret, and you're not in a space where you're like totally drinking the Kool-Aid about something that can seem really far out there, where you're like I just think things and they happen like fuck off, you know what I mean. So you wanna meet yourself where you're at. And if you're at that space of skepticism, or you're at that space of like it works for others but not for me, or you're at that space where you're like you're not buying it, but you're still kinda interested and you still feel like there's something in it and you're curious.

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Start with the source. It takes a very sciencey look at it. Like I said, it talks about brain health, brain wiring. It's very like do this to experience this. It's very systematic, which is amazing, and she talks about vision boarding and she even takes vision boarding into like a really like she nerds out on it basically, and it's like this is why vision boards work and here's when they don't work and here's how you should build yours and here's how long you need to look at yours every day to actually rewire your brain. So there's a lot of support built into that book that can help you get going with laying foundational roots that are going to support you and whatever it is that you're trying to bring into your life.

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I'm listening to Super Attractor by Gabby Bernstein right now, which is a really interesting book, because I've been at it with like spiritual practices for a couple years now and you know one of the things that Hoften happens is like it doesn't matter how many things work out. It's when things don't work out that your brain fixates on that and it's like that's not working. That's not working, that's not working. And her book so far I'm only chapter two into it, but it's about how to bring yourself back to a space where you're not myth busting and saying like why the universe isn't supporting you, but you're remembering how it's working and you're remembering the times that it is in your favor and you're tuning in your frequency, like your mind frequency. Let's think of our brain as a old timey radio with a dial on it. You're turning the dial in your head so that it's on a channel that is one of belief and that it is one of feeling good and getting what you want.

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And she talks about this concept of being like a manic manifestor versus an attractor. And it was one of those moments where I listened to it and I was like, oh damn. I was like she sees me, she sees me and manic manifestation is like. She talks about this idea of being like I am gonna will this into submission, I am gonna learn all the strategies and I'm gonna do all the things and I'm gonna get exactly what I want and it's gonna happen this fast and this will happen, then this will. And guess what? It doesn't. It doesn't happen because that's not how it works. And it is this battle of remembering to move out of this manic manifesting like I will, will it into my submission and have what I want to a space where it's like I'm a fucking magnet and I actually attract things. I'm not actively making things, I'm pulling things into my sphere. So I'm only, like I said, two chapters into it, but so far that one is like super cool, I'm really enjoying it.

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There's also Becoming Supernatural by Joe Dispenza and I've had read little bits of it. I haven't read the whole thing. It's very, if you wanna geek out about why this works and why meditation works and how affirmations and visualization and like when I say visualization I mean actually like feeling and embodying certain things, how that rewires. And when I say rewires, let's think about planting new roots. It creates new roots in your subconscious. That then lets your tree grow. That it is that you're. You know whatever it is you're trying to bring into fruition. These books and these tools. They work to target this idea of like. Whatever it is that you want to create, you can, because we're so powerful.

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But quite often when we set an intention to have, be or do something and it falls flat, it's because the internal support system or the internal conditions, or even externally in our life aren't there, and often they're not there because of self-sabotage comes up way more than you would think. Right, we are phenomenally talented at self-sabotaging, and whether that means like avoiding things, denying ourselves certain things, or, you know, planning our days in ways to not support the things that are important to us and it talks about, you know, we just we can spend all the time in the world thinking and like fantasizing of what it is that we want to do, and then we like to jump into the doing. But the mirror that needs to exist in the balance is the support work, the deep work. When we make our gardens in the summer or the spring, you gotta go fix the soil, you gotta go water it. Sometimes you gotta like turn up the soil. You probably gotta like maybe put new soil down there. You can't just put something out in the backyard and be like cheers grow for me. I'll be back in six months to pick my apples. It's the same in our mind, right?

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Our creative roots matter, and the biggest act of self-care that we can do is to make time to nurture these roots, to believe in ourselves, to believe in our vision and to be there and support our ideas as they get bigger and they start to poke through the soil and they start to, you know, peek their little head out into the world. And so it's important to ask yourself, like? What thoughts and beliefs and expectations exist in the root system of your mind. Are they thoughts of I can do this, or empowerment, or self-belief, or are they thoughts of like this is hard, success only comes with struggle. Nobody cares about what I have to say, all my ideas are stupid, nothing I ever do works. Which one better represents your belief system? And sometimes it's a bit of both. Right, we're not all or nothing, and it is totally okay to believe in yourself and to think like I have good ideas, I'm a great artist, my work is important. But to also think nobody cares about what I have to say, nobody pays attention, and I would wager that that is more likely what most of our minds are like, having these conflicting dualities of ideas and beliefs. And we have to believe in our ideas we do. We have to believe in our vision. We have to believe that what we value and admire and aspire to is important, and we also have to believe that the voices that live in our head that speak against that or take us away from it or tell us that it can't happen, aren't the truth. They may have been the truth at one point in our lives, but they aren't our truth now.

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And it's daily work. Like I said, it's ongoing. It is a commitment to nurturing a relationship with your creative self. It is a commitment to taking care of your inner child. It is a commitment to gently taking these weeds out and planting new seeds every day and watering them and tending to them right. It's taking care of all that comes together to create the garden that is our life.

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And so what is it that you wanna create in your life? Ask yourself, what is it that you wanna create most? And maybe it's something big, maybe it's like a whole change of I want everything, like maybe you're at a point where you're like there has to be a different way, or maybe you're like I just really wanna get this self-portrait project off the ground. I've started it six times in 10 years and I've never completed it. Take a moment and ask yourself what do you wanna create in your life? And in order to create that, what do you need to believe in order for that to happen If we look at the example of, say, you wanted to. There's a self-portrait project that you started six times, never finished. You do like one and then you drop it.

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If you have this desire to work on this project and to share it with the world, you need to believe a lot of things. You need to believe that carving out time for creativity and play is important. You need to believe that trying new things and making mistakes is okay and potentially exciting. You need to believe that you're worthy and valuable enough to be in front of the lens. That's a big one. You'll need to believe that you have the capability and the tools and the capacity to bring your idea into fruition technically. You'll need to believe that other people are going to care and are gonna wanna look at it, and you're gonna need to believe that when they do look at it, that they will enjoy it or they will see what you see, and that they will respond positively.

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I could go on and on and on. There is so much that we need to believe and quite often we don't fully believe or we would like to believe, but there's still that part of us that's like, yeah, people wanna look at your work, but really, when they do, they're thinking blah, blah, blah, right, like there's all these dualities and complexities that exist in our brain and we have to coax out that inner child, that creative voice that wants to come forward and is like hey, I wanna play, this is what I wanna make. You know what I want? A bigger kitchen. I want a bigger kitchen, cause, blah, blah, blah, like, coax that kid out and let them speak to you and then say you know what? Okay, let's do this, let's do this, and let's look at the bullies, the playground bullies, the mind bullies. Let's get a plan of action in place to quiet them down a bit and to give you the stage that you've been asking for for most of your life.

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So what do you need to believe right now in order to take that first step to creating whatever it is that you wanna create? Does your inner system support the ideas and the dreams that you have, or is it time to do some weeding? Do you really need to tend to your mind, your body and spirit, and do you know what that might look like? Do you know where to start? I would love to hear from you. I would love to hear what you're working on what you wanna work on, why you haven't worked on it.

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What happens when you do start to work on it? There's so many moving parts Like remember, we think of that root ball of the tree if we were repotting it. We take it out, we're like holy shit. When you see what's under there, you're like I had no idea that that was there. That's our mind, and it's not that we can't work with it. We just need to really take it out, look at it and go okay, if we're gonna work with this and we wanna put it in this pot, this is what needs to be removed. These are the daily practices we need to put into place. These are the things that I need to systematically support myself to get comfortable with. This is where I need to push myself into being uncomfortable and these are the things that I need to remind myself on a daily basis. And it is a process and it is exciting and it is scary and it's all those things. Right, it's gonna be uncomfortable, it's gonna be comfortable, it's gonna be exciting, it's gonna be terrifying, it's gonna be exhilarating and embarrassing, it's gonna be everything all at once, but it is also going to be so, so, so worth it and I remind you that I am here to support you with personalized guidance on this journey.

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Really, consider creativity coaching if you want to be working on tending to your mind, tending to your spirit, so that you can connect with your authentic self, your authentic voice. You can hone a craft and bring into existence something of you, something that you're desiring to create. I have spaces available for this year. You can get in touch with me. My email is contact at JenniferHully, and that's the first step. You just send me an email and we will book a time to chat with a free consultation. And that's where we really get into the thick of it. We look at what's going on, what comes up for you, what you think your blocks are, and we start to build a personalized program of support for you.

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This isn't something where I say like, oh, we do six sessions and poof, you're done. You might need one session, you might need three, you might need ongoing support for six months, where we touch base once a month. It's very nuanced and it's very individualized, because we're all snowflakes, right, and I mean that in the most, the kindest way possible. I don't mean like, oh, we're a snowflake, you think you're special. We are special. We are unique and special and our histories are different and complex and with the right support and the right sprinkling of different elements, you can have an ecosystem in which you can thrive. Thanks so much for tuning in this week. Remember, go out there, be bold, kick some creative ass and I'll talk to you next week. Thank you so much for your ongoing support of the podcast. Remember, if you're loving what you hear, you can spread some love and you can share episodes on social media. You can send them to friends that you know will love them and take a minute to leave a rating and review on your favorite podcast platform. Thank you.