For Artists: How to Create from Pain & Live From Light ✨

When I started helping artists bring their ideas to life (in addition to the business owners and entrepreneurs I've always worked with), I was struck by how many of these individuals shied away from calling themselves artists. But I also understood. For they, like so many of us, had been badly burned by societal stories that taught us that to be an artist you have to create and live from your pain.

I show my clients a different paradigm, one that allows us to tap into and create from the deepest, darkest parts of ourselves when we feel called, while always LIVING from the biggest, brightest parts of our souls.

To illustrate this idea, I often encourage clients to locate both feelings or energies, in their body: Where does the feeling of pain sit? What does it feel like? Does it have a color? What about this feeling of joy and expansion? Where does that live? What does it feel like?

It's amazing how bringing our emotions into the body can help our mind become aware of the beliefs we hold and help us create more nourishing, supportive, and expansive neuropathways.

This is the work we need to do to create.
This is the work we need to put our ideas into the world.
This is the work we need to share our art.
This is the work we need to birth our businesses,
and to lead in the most impactful way.

As I say in the video above,

Know that that purple [the painful energy] is what needed to be created, right? It needs to be expressed. It needs to be created, but it is separate from the place where you are going to live in this true part of yourself, which is filled with this pink, beautiful light [the soul energy] that actually feels like expansion and more in your body.

As an artist, yes, we feel all of the bad, difficult stuff and we use that to create and express, but we don't stay there in terms of human beings in our lives. Right? We we can't. We're not meant to. We're meant to express and create. And we do that. And those are going to have some dark flavor sometime. I'm going through a huge breakup, and I'm creating from that place of heartbreak.

But I'm not living in heartbreak. I have to live, and I have to intentionally come back to the part that knows it is safe and that knows that there is the relationship that I want and knows that the life I want is there.

That's what I call into my body. And then sure, when I sit down to write something and I want to write about the human experience, or I want to create music of the human experience about what all these relationships were to me, then I go to that place, but I don't let myself stay there when I'm done creating.”

Do not confuse your art from your life, for you must always live life from the brightest part of your soul.

Your art demands it. 💖