9. Creative Check-In: It's Not Too Late: Finding Your Way Back to Creativity (Or Starting For the First Time)

Well, so we want to start this episode by saying something that we think a lot of creativity content kind of skips over.

And it's that it's this.

Most people who aren't being creative right now didn't just stop caring about creativity.

They stopped for a lot of little and big reasons.

So life got bad.

busy, a job took over, kids came along, someone told them that maybe they weren't good at it, they tried something artistic and felt embarrassed, or maybe they just slowly drifted away from their creative hobbies the way that, you know, that happens to a lot of us over time.

And we just want to say this all makes complete sense.

This is not a character flaw.

It's not bad or good.

This is just life.

So the question of why did you stop making is important.

But we also want to talk about this like softer entry point to getting back in touch with your creative side is taking that moral judgment completely out of the equation and asking yourself gently, what might it feel like to start again? Like how could I inch closer to that without making myself feel bad about not having made anything in a long time? Allie, I'm wondering also when you think about the people that you work with or the people who show up to your events, What do you hear most often about why someone's creativity feels stagnant or dormant?

Yeah, I feel like a lot of it tends to have to do with time of like life is very busy and it so often feels like that people just like I just don't have time.

So I would love to chat about how we can really make it more accessible, like more reachable for us and things like that.

But I think a lot of comparison happens to you again.

I feel like I'll be the broken record who always says like the age of like social media, which, and I love, I do, there are parts I love about social media.

I'm so grateful for the platforms we've built, right? All of these things, the connections, the good parts, but I think it also breeds a lot of comparison because it's often like, And I think it's shifting, but it's still very often these most polished versions of things.

So you see someone create this beautiful project and you think, well, I want to try that project and it has to look that beautiful.

We don't always see someone's journey to that of the mistakes they made, what it took to get there, all of these things.

So I think some of that I'm not good enough comparison happens.

is definitely what I hear a lot about.

I think that I think I hear a lot about that, too.

And I'm hoping on this show also we can we can sort of like share some tricks and tips along the way to like help people kind of get back into a place where they can feel like more confident and just trying instead of it being so much about the product itself or what, you know, is able to be shared.

Mm-hmm, agreed.

Well, so we want to start this episode by saying something that we think a lot of creativity content kind of skips over.

And it's that it's this.

Most people who aren't being creative right now didn't just stop caring about creativity.

They stopped for a lot of little and big reasons.

So life got bad.

busy, a job took over, kids came along, someone told them that maybe they weren't good at it, they tried something artistic and felt embarrassed, or maybe they just slowly drifted away from their creative hobbies the way that, you know, that happens to a lot of us over time.

And we just want to say this all makes complete sense.

This is not a character flaw.

It's not bad or good.

This is just life.

So the question of why did you stop making is important.

But we also want to talk about this like softer entry point to getting back in touch with your creative side is taking that moral judgment completely out of the equation and asking yourself gently, what might it feel like to start again? Like how could I inch closer to that without making myself feel bad about not having made anything in a long time? Allie, I'm wondering also when you think about the people that you work with or the people who show up to your events, What do you hear most often about why someone's creativity feels stagnant or dormant?

Yeah, I feel like a lot of it tends to have to do with time of like life is very busy and it so often feels like that people just like I just don't have time.

So I would love to chat about how we can really make it more accessible, like more reachable for us and things like that.

But I think a lot of comparison happens to you again.

I feel like I'll be the broken record who always says like the age of like social media, which, and I love, I do, there are parts I love about social media.

I'm so grateful for the platforms we've built, right? All of these things, the connections, the good parts, but I think it also breeds a lot of comparison because it's often like, And I think it's shifting, but it's still very often these most polished versions of things.

So you see someone create this beautiful project and you think, well, I want to try that project and it has to look that beautiful.

We don't always see someone's journey to that of the mistakes they made, what it took to get there, all of these things.

So I think some of that I'm not good enough comparison happens.

is definitely what I hear a lot about.

I think that I think I hear a lot about that, too.

And I'm hoping on this show also we can we can sort of like share some tricks and tips along the way to like help people kind of get back into a place where they can feel like more confident and just trying instead of it being so much about the product itself or what, you know, is able to be shared.

Mm-hmm, agreed.