RE-RELEASE Author, Speaker & Creative Guide, Aime McNee, Talks: “We Need Your Art,” A Revolutionary Reprogramming of Everything We’ve Been Taught About Creativity & Navigating our “Shame Stories”

Hi, everybody.

Welcome back to this week's episode of Courageous Wellness.

This week, I sit down with Amy McNee, who's the author of the new book, We Need Your Art: Stop Messing Around and Make Something.

Um, I really enjoyed talking to her, especially coming from a creative background myself.

And, um, and anyway, so we're gonna get into her formal intro in just a minute, but Erica and I have a few sort of weekly updates that we always do.

Um, Erica, do you want to kick it off for us?

Yeah, I'll kick us off.

And actually, I just, this week it's just Ali and Amy on the episode, and I just listened to it.

And it, I gained so much from the conversation, Ali.

I thought it was really quite wonderful, and I am excited for everyone to listen to it too, 'cause I gained so much.

Um, but this week, my updates.

So I have a couple of updates.

The first is, you know, this week is Mother's Day, obviously, in the United States.

And if you're new to the podcast, or if you aren't new, then you know my mom passed away last July.

And also though this month in May, my father-in-law passed away in May.

So it's, like, my first Mother's Day since my mother's passed, but also kind of we're, we're gearing up to the anniversary of my father-in-law passing away.

And this week, [laughs] it's also the, uh, 11-year anniversary my husband proposed to me, but also-

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the one-year anniversary of when we closed on our home.

So I also bought a home last year.

And so it's, like, a lot of anniversaries and feelings kind of coming up all at once.

And grief is such an interesting journey, and so I just kind of wanted to, like, mention it, because I obviously don't mention it every week, because grief, it's true what they say, it comes in waves.

Mm-hmm.

And so it's kind of always there, right? Like, the ocean's always there, even if it's calm or it's, you know.