Give Yourself More Credit! All The Ways You're Already Growing Creatively

I wrote this in my journal this morning while sitting in the quiet sunlight of my Haitian kitchen table. I wanted to share with you too dear one. It’s time you and I give ourselves more credit for all the ways we are

GROWING CREATIVELY

You’re doing the work daily more than you know. You’re growing creatively even when you’re not in front of an easel. You…

Grow creatively through: dancing

Grow creatively through: asking for help.

Grow creatively through: generosity.

Grow creatively through: introspection.

Grow creatively through: joy.

Grow creatively through: stillness.

Grow creatively through: cleansing

Grow creatively through: blessing strangers.

Grow creatively through: experience life’s pain deeply.

Grow creatively through: dissolving fear with trust…then truly trusting.

Grow creatively through: permission to make bad art

Grow creatively through: forgiving.

Grow creatively through: declaring my beliefs.

Grow creatively through: streamlining.

Grow creatively through: loving as I wish to be loved.

Grow creatively through: laughter.

Grow creatively through: sacred movement.

Grow creatively through: creating beauty every damn day.

Grow creatively through: leaving people better than I found them.

Grow creatively through: feeding my friends with attentiveness.

Grow creatively through: hydration.

Grow creatively through: rest.

Grow creatively through: encouraging.

Grow creatively through: including.

Grow creatively through: putting yourself in their shoes.

Grow creatively through: falling in love with the Great Wonder

So before beating yourself up about feeling “behind”, or setting a reminder to DO anything, please remember that your way of being in the world is already a gift. You’re creating and growingly daily in a hundred cool ways without even realizing it.

So thank you for taking this little time out, and for giving yourself credit today. You’re doing beautifully!