💛 Reclaim Your Creativity: An Intuition Practice for Midlife

You used to make things just because making them felt like breathing.

And then... slowly, quietly, you stopped.

In this episode, I'm sharing a simple practice that's shifting how I create in my business and my life. 

It starts with a photo of me at six years old. And it opens something I didn't know I was still carrying.

We talk about: 

• midlife pattern interrupts
• future-based intuition, and 
• the part of you that has always known how to create without pressure or rules.

I would love to hear from you once you have your own experience? 

DM me on Instagram or send me an email:

📩 elenamlipson@gmail.com 📱 Instagram: @elena_lipson

Transcript

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Welcome back to an intuitive life podcast. This is Alina Lipson, and today we're talking about creativity, your inner compass, and we're going somewhere really powerful for you if you are looking to embed and activate and rip open creativity in a way that you used to do when you were little. So earlier this week I posted a reel about something that I've been doing with my own creativity practice, and the response has been really sweet. So this tells me I'm not the only one who needed this. And so I want to take you deeper here because what I shared in that reel, it's the surface of something much bigger. Like we're talking about creativity and play, but also about allowing that to be the portal into creating the next thing without the pressure, without the construct and the social patterns that you've had embedded since you were very, very tiny. So if you remember yourself, maybe at like five, six, seven, eight years old, when you did not need any permission to make something, you picked up crayons or markers or whatever you picked up or clay or whatever your creative you know tool was, and you just did it without asking if it was good, like right at the beginning, before you started getting feedback, right? If you wanted to choreograph dances like I did in the living room for nobody or to perform for your family, or at dinners like I did, you just did it. Like you didn't think about it being bad. You just made it because it felt like breathing, because it felt like you were following something without thinking about it. You were just being your most you. And then slowly, quietly, that version of you started to get quieter and smaller and more contained through the things we're going to talk about today and how that happens. And most importantly, we're gonna talk about how to bring her back, how to bring that aspect of you back to the forefront so that it informs what you are creating today. So here's what I've noticed in myself and in the women that I work with, and I've been working with women entrepreneurs for the last two decades, and now, specifically in this midlife era, we we really don't decide to stop being creative, we don't decide to start be stopping being playful. We don't wake up one day and say, you know what? I am done being playful. It just happens in layers. Someone says your drawing is wrong, a teacher grades your idea, a peer laughs at your outfit or your dance, a parent tells you to be realistic and practical, and slowly, carefully, you start to build rules around your creative expression. Rules that sound like protection, but are actually a cage. It becomes a very solid cage over time. Will this be good enough? Will people like it? What if it fails? What if I look ridiculous? Right. And by the time you're running a business or in the work environment, you're raising kids, building a life, you have then subconsciously or unconsciously outsourced so much of your creation. You maybe even hire people to tell you what to create, or like you ask for opinions before you've even let yourself finish a thought or start a project. You start creating for the outcome instead of the experience of it, right? But because this is how we've been trained, this is how we've been patterned, patterned by school, by society, by every room that told you that there was a right way to do this or the thing you want to do. And with the online, it's even worse. Like you open your app, and within seconds, you're being told that there's a right way and a wrong way, that this is what you should be doing with your body, your work, your home, your bathroom, your kids, your husband, your sex life, everything, right? But here's where it gets super interesting because in midlife, you you come to this reckoning phase because you've lived long enough now to look back and see clearly how many times you have contorted yourself, bent yourself into shapes that weren't yours. How many times you walked into a room and became what you thought you were supposed to be because it was the right way to do it, how many times you didn't wear the thing that's outrageous and beautiful and stunning because you didn't want to make anyone else feel bad, or you were just a version of yourself that was performed because someone somewhere told you that that's how it's supposed to look, whether it's creating a business, a home, a life, anything, right? And the cool thing about this interrupted pattern time is you've also accumulated something extraordinary, which is wisdom from grief, from loss, from celebration, from deep friendships, from friendships that didn't go so deep that um from betrayals from decades of knowing what things feel like in your body, whether you acted on them all the time or not, because that's life. And your intuition at this stage of life is so sharp, sharper than it's ever been, and something starts to get loud or louder, but maybe it's quiet at first, like a nudge, a restlessness, a question, or a series of questions that just won't leave you alone. Like, wait, is this really how I want to feel? Is this really how I want to live? What would it look like and feel like if I actually created from part of me that knows like it knows, like it knows what life is meant for me to be? And that voice is future-based intuition. I believe, and I've seen this over and over, that your intuition comes from two places above, divine and future. It's your future version of you who has already moved through the pattern and is calling you forward. Whether it's a year from now, five years from now, 20 years from now, she's pinging you. And that ping is an intuitive knowing. However, you receive your intuition, whether you hear it, see it, feel it, sense it, know it. She is asking you to start from that place in your body where your creativity is like breathing, and your expression is like breathing, and your intuitive decision-making is like breathing. It's the way you were before the rules got stacked so high that you forgot that there was an actual authentic you underneath them. So here's what I shared in my reel specifically, and this is what I've been doing quietly that has made a genuine shift in how I create. This is the practice. I found a photo of myself at about six years old that like the expression on my face to me is just like innocence and possibility and knowing. I don't don't even have like a real expression, but I know myself and I know in that moment there was like I could see something in my eyes, right? And so I took it, a screenshot, and I made it a screensaver on my phone. I'm gonna link the reel below so you can see it as well in the show notes. That's it, it's simple because this doesn't have to be complicated. Intuitive reconnection does not have to be complicated, it's usually very, very simple. So, but what it does is not simple at all because now every time I pick up my phone or consciously go to it, whether it's before I sit down to create something for myself, just to draw my business, because I'm I'm doing this drawing like a creativity practice right now, to really tap into that feeling that I know I feel when I'm doing something just for the pure joy of it. Um, before I write, I look at her and I feel something. There's this warmth and expansion that opens in my chest. And this expansiveness, this knowing of what it felt like to make things just for the joy of making them. I remember like I used to just put on music and I used to just choreograph the songs, and I would just draw, and I would just like I remember that feeling of that pure, like childlike, innocent creation. And so now I ask myself, how can I bring her into this? How can I make this playful? How can we co-create this together? The me who carries decades of wisdom and experience, which is great. We don't want to let that go, but also the me who doesn't need it to be right, perfect from pressure a certain way, validation, approval, all of it. Okay, it's a check-in. It's a check-in and it's a portal, a tiny intentional pause before I let the old rules run the show, before I step like back into that cage of this is how it should be and getting it right. So here's what I want to invite you to try. Find a photo of yourself as a little girl, seven, eight, nine, whatever feels right, earlier or later, whenever you want to tap into that feeling, the age where you were creating just because it felt so good, and take a screenshot of it. Even maybe it's a picture of you actually creating something if you have that. I just don't have a ton of pictures in my in my home of me when I was little. Um, you know, it's the era of like actual photos. So I know a lot of those are in my mom's house, some are my sisters. I just don't have a lot. So what you have, use what use what you are called to use. Like, don't let exactly what I use influence you. Just take something that feels really good and make it your phone screensaver for the next week, two weeks, and just see what happens. When you pick up your phone and you see her, don't like just put it down quickly, just pause and check in. Like, what did I what did creating feel like for her? Where can you connect to it in your body? And then how can I bring even a little bit of that into what I'm doing right now? Even if I mean, listen, this is for everything. Anything you're creating in your business, in your home, even if you're like making a whole meal or a celebration for your family, what if you could bring it to that too? Right? If you have a physical picture, awesome, you can do that. Put her on your desk if you want, on your bathroom mirror so you see it every morning. Carry her with you. I chose the screensaver because we pretty much have our phones with us all the time. So let her remind you that the capacity for pure, joyful, unguarded creation, it never left you. It just got buried under a shit ton of rules that were never really yours to begin with. Right? So, this intuitive work, this accessing our past in order to pull out that joy and wisdom, but also being able to connect it with your future vision of yourself. This is the work that I live and breathe. So, if this episode landed for you, of course, I want to hear. If something in you is like, yes, this is what I've been feeling, this is the wall that I've been standing in front of, this brick wall that I've been standing in front of, unable to access my creativity, my intuition, and knowing that I'm I'm gonna spend another year or two or three or five or ten years like this is not an option, right? I want you to know that there is so much more available because reconnecting to your creative self, learning to hear that future-based intuition and actually act from it in your business, in your body, your relationships, your life. That's exactly what I do as an intuitive coach and mentor. I work with women who are done outsourcing their knowing, who are ready to build and create and decide from the deepest, most aligned, intuitive version of themselves. So if you're curious about what that support looks like for you, please DM me on Instagram and we can chat, no pressure, or drop a note right here in the podcast where you can see a little heart. Let's talk. Let's see if this is the right moment for you to go deeper, to step out of that cage and into your aligned intuitive path. Because you already have everything you need, and you always did. And that little girl that you can connect with, she knows how to remind you. So, all right, I hope you got something out of this episode. Please make sure you subscribe, leave me a note, a review, let me know how this landed. A note on Instagram is fine too, but I really would love to make this a two way conversation. So I will see you in the next episode with love. My little Elena and my future Elena and my current Elena sends you so much love and magic and joy. And thanks for being here. I'll see you next time.