Journey to Authenticity-Come along?

Hey Beautiful Souls!

I am super excited to share that I have gussied up and released the workshop I created (and got great feedback on) Journey to Authentic You  this workshop/journey is now self paced. You can start whenever and wherever in it you would like. It does however come with email support from me!

I would beyond love to have you join in the Journey with me. It’s an affordable $37 to dive into this journey and start creating a life that is true to you. Here is a little bit from the beautiful testimonial from an amazing participant of the workshop!

This workshop helped me to look at things I didn’t want to and opened my eyes to things I had put on the shelf. I learned to look outside the box of my comfort zone…Barbara

Come along on the Journey!

Here is to living Inspired,Creative and Empowered

Heather

Direction/Fear- Journal Prompt…

Hey Inspiring Souls!

I wrote this in my journal a few days ago and I am still peeling the layers to get core of all the different areas i need to do this. I thought it was a simple but powerful question. So I ask you…

Where would you like to tell fear, it may come along for the ride but it can’t control the direction anymore?

Here is to living Inspired, Creative and Empowered

Heather

Your story matters…

Hey Beautiful Souls..

3 simple but amazingly powerful words to remind you.. Speak these 3 words to yourself often…My Story Matters

How does it feel when you say these words to yourself? Do you belive it? If you don’t, keep saying it to yourself until you do!

It’s so easy to think that what someone else has to say, what they do, how they show up that it’s all more important than our story. I can’t tell you the amount of times I have done that and still do at times without often even realizing that I am discounting my own gifts, wisdom, creativity etc..

This does not mean to be a slave to the past, to be stuck in it and beating yourself up for the shoulda’s. The past is just that, past you can however learn from it, reflect on the lessons and growth that came from your past.

The beautiful part of our story is that it’s constantly being written, the question to ask yourself: Is my story being written by me?

You matter

You are seen

Own it

Release it

Embrace it

Tell it

Write it

Here is to living Inspired, Creative and Empowered

Heather

The Journal Journey starts again..

Hey Creative Souls!

First I want to say thank you to those of you who have been a support in spreading the word and being part of the giveaway for “Creating My Way to Me” workshop, remember you only have until tonight to enter!

I was working for a bit yesterday in my new art journal, and decided to put a page of what the Journal is to me.. it’s a reminder in general but mainly for those times when I start trying to over think about how it should be, and you know I will! The image above is what I wrote, click on it to make it larger and ignore the spelling and the non words! I had started to use a different type of journal to push myself creatively but I was just not feeling that journal for what I like to do in my art/visual journal, so that one will become a photo journal of sorts!

I think that you could find something like this helpful too, it can be for any journal really.. In this new journal I will continue to try new things, some will work, some really wont.. but it’s all part of the journey and that is a good thing. But I do know more of what I really like and what I do not, so that will be something different from last time.

Look this next week or so for a new category on mindful living, I am taking you with me on the journey, not sure how it’s all going to look or what the feature will be called but it’s a work in progress..

See you tomorrow for the winner of the giveaway,I hope that even if you did not enter or win the spot, I sincerely hope that you will consider going on the journey along with me and a few other creative souls.. More information here..

Here is to living Inspired, Creative and Empowered

Heather

Art Journal Journey Part 1..

Hey there creative souls.. I know I promised you some posts and one of them being about my art journal journey.. I was all ready to post this earlier and had an issue with the site publishing it, I had it all written out and the picture with it… argghhh Ok so here I am , maybe the last post was not meant to be and this one will be better!

I have almost filled up my Art Journal, my very first but for sure not my last! I have officially been working in the journal posted above since February and minus a few written journal entries in it, it’s full! It’s a moleksine sketchbook, the large on and the size works for me really well!

I have been keeping a journal/diary for about 20 + years ( I think I just aged myself.. ) And I am learning more and more I am a very visual person, so the two things were a match made in creative heaven for me.. Well most of it..

About my journey.. I started in it thinking it was just going to be for a class I was taking to practice techniques and for my journal prompts. I had no idea that after a while that I would just LOVE working in it and that it would lead to several important insights about myself and how I am outside the journal!

It brought to light how much I judge myself, how I never felt like it was good enough, I was doing it wrong.. I was afraid of making a crappy page, or doing the “wrong” thing and I constantly was over-thinking it. Those are all things I have felt or feel in my life that I am working on. Art Journaling just brought it to light more.  I wanted to just sit down and bust out these amazing pages and skill, and frankly it was not happening. I realized that is how I deal with so many things, and it’s a form of fear.  Fear and I know one another really well. After many pages of really feeling bad and getting stuck, I pushed through it. I don’t know what clicked exactly, I have been encouraged by the classes I was taking and the people around me as well. But I just started letting loose.. I don’t love every page I come up with. But somehow it’s helping me find my voice more. I feel like I have become a bit more brave through it. I can express myself in a more authentic way, and I know there is so much more to come in so many different ways.

I am really happy I have stuck with it.. I don’t see it going away for me anytime soon.. It will just evolve as I do.

I don’t know if I am even explaining this in a way that it makes sense really, just that it’s been a great tool to add to my life  on this part of my  journey.

Thanks for sticking with me through this not so smooth flow of thoughts on my art journal journey..

I would like to share more with you on this in the future, so I am going to make this a multi part post!

Here is to being Inspired, Creative and Empowered. Have a great weekend!

Heather

PS: This post is a much more authentic look at this journey the one I was going to post, so I am glad it happened the way it did, even if I did want to throw my computer across the room then!

Pushing Myself to My Potential…

Do you let yourself off the hook when you know you didn’t really try? I have to admit, I have.

As I was feeling sorry for myself the other day, it struck me… I do not push myself enough, challenge myself.. I talk about it, I think about it, but I don’t actually do it!  When I talk about pushing myself I don’t mean it in a bad way, It’s not a you are not doing good enough type of way.. It is in a way where i know , I mean I really know that I am not challenging myself to live up to the potential that I know I have, not even close.

I constantly talk to myself ( yes, I talk to myself, don’t you?) about how I want more creativity and there are these ideas I have, things I want to learn , to do , to create… But I do not challenge myself for any length of time.. I give myself constant excuses as to why I can’t, that I will when_____ .. But really all of that is only a way to talk myself out of what I want because, well all sorts of reasons, fear mostly..

That stops, right here, right now… Today I will journal about my vision and not hold back, I will create something and I will have an Inspired Plan of Action of what and how I want to challenge myself for the month of December!  I will put excuses aside, and be open to what it is that I am here to do!  Maybe I start in small ways, maybe I make huge leaps, either way I keep my eyes on the prize, to live my potential, my joy and to live full of inspiration!

Where can you push yourself more? If you are hard on yourself, then stop to ask yourself and answer honestly, is what you are pushing yourself towards what you really want to create?

I will be sharing more of my journey with you as I go… Please feel free to share your journey with me..

Here is to living Inspired, Creative and Empowered on your terms, and to living in and exceeding  your potential!