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Soul-led Creative Women with Sam Horton
Welcome to Soul-Led Creative Women — the podcast for heart-centered, creative women who are ready to reclaim their spark and live with deeper meaning, authenticity, and soul.
I’m Sam Horton — artist, mentor, and spiritual guide — and I’m here to support women like you who feel that creative whisper stirring, even if sometimes life feels too full and complicated to follow it.
This is for you if you’re craving something deeper — a sense of purpose, a creative awakening, a way to turn your struggles into sacred power — you’re in the right place.
Each episode is an invitation to uncover the spiritual power of creativity to heal, nurture, empower, and transform. Through honest stories, soulful conversations, and inspiring tools, we’ll explore how art-making and spiritual practices can help you reconnect to your truth and live more expansively.
Your creativity isn’t a luxury — it’s your way back to yourself. Let’s explore how together.
Soul-led Creative Women with Sam Horton
Invitation to Soulful Art: Amplify Your Connection to Your Inner Heartspace | Sam Horton
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When life feels heavy, you do not need to do more. You need a softer way to come home. This gentle invitation guides you to make a tiny visual poem that honours rest and lets your heart lead again.
3 benefits of listening
- Create steadiness with a simple, soothing art ritual you can finish in one sitting.
- Hear your heart’s quiet truth and honour it with a kind, clear boundary.
- Reduce overwhelm by choosing one small action that supports real rest.
Episode summary
This month we lean into rest and reducing the load. Sam shares how a tender family season has called her to do less, soften plans, and let the heart be the compass. From that place she invites you to create a tiny visual poem — a soft circle with gentle marks and a single whispered line — as a personal sanctuary on paper.
You will be guided to move slowly, add a few simple symbols, and write one honest line like “Today I choose less” or “It is safe to follow my heart.” To close, you will reflect on what you can cancel this week and one small action that truly supports your energy now.
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Invitation to Soulful Art: Amplify your connection to your inner heart space for tender gentle self nuturing
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This episode explores using soulful creativity to gently return to your inner heart space and honor your heart's desires through the nurturing container of simple art making. It is an intentional, personal way to create steadiness, soften the nervous system, and live in a more authentic, soul aligned way.
This month, I'm exploring the theme of rest and reducing the load. When life feels heavy, our hearts ask for less, not more overwhelm can show up as fogginess, anxiety, or a sense of being stretched too thin. The medicine is simple. Slow down, breathe, and come home to the quiet center that remembers who you are.
For me, November is a tender month. My daughter is moving through a difficult season with her mental health, so I'm softening my plans and choosing the smallest, kindest actions I'm letting my heart be the compass, less noise, fewer open loops, clearer boundaries that keep. The bugs at bay Rest is [00:01:00] not a reward at the end of a perfect day.
It's how I keep showing up with love. To support this, I created a tiny visual poem, a blooming rose, close to the heart. Its petals. Catch a soft moonlight that soothes and steadies. The center holds seeds of desire and dream quiet sparks that will grow in their own time.
this piece is. A love letter to the wise center within.
It honors resilience that blossoms in the weeds, softness and wildness, living side by side and rightful belonging of meaning, love, and service. The practice of carving out simple, creative time with no pressure to make something beautiful, only the intention to rest and reconnect is one of my favorite ways to care for myself and keep my heart open.
Now I invite you to create your own soulful artwork that honors rest in this season. If it helps, revisit the soul activation meditation in the previous episode to settle first. Then on a single page, [00:02:00] make a soft circle or oval on the page. Decorate your circle however you like. Add flowers, symbols, shapes, color,
Keep your movement slow, like you're drawing a nest or a cocoon. If it helps, close your eyes for the first 30 seconds and let your hand wander inside your circle. Write one honest line that your heart is whispering. Keep it simple.
Examples might include today I choose less. One thing finished is enough. It is safe to follow my heart. Turn the page over if you like, and write or simply reflect, if my heart could cancel one thing this week, what would it be? Or what is one small action I can take today? To honor my heart's desires, I'd love to see what you create.
Please share your piece inside the Soul-led Creative Community. You can join for free today at [00:03:00] samhorton.co/community.
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