Season 2, episode 1:
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In this episode I’m talking about:
-Searching for sunbeams
-Moving past a big creative block by finding hope again
-Feeling guilty because I have a nice life
-Anxiety during this time and how I’ve dealt with it
-The science of hope
-Reimagining our future post lockdown
I refer to an article I wrote: Oxytocin: The Cure For Anxiety + Immunity
I refer to Julia Cameron’s Book. The Artists Way from 1992.
Welcome to Episode One of this season of the happier creative Podcast. I am your host, Ruth Hoskins.
Thank you so much for tuning in. The happier creative is a kind of evolution of first season of my podcast. It’s part memoir, part an essay on creative life and part, I guess a bit of a guide to help you upgrade your life and allow more creativity into it. I’m here to help you explore how you live and work creatively, especially as we’re on this kind of lockdown situation right now and beyond.
I believe that creativity is a tool that can massively help reduce anxiety help us live and work better, whether we work full time as a creative or we have a creative business or we want to just bring more creativity into our lives. And now for those of you who listen to my earlier season of this podcast, it was called the happy creative.
You might I’ve noticed that I’ve tweaked the title a little bit. I’ll come on to why a bit later on. But I’m so happy to be back in your ears in this very revolutionary and strange time. And I want to share stories with you because I believe we have to look to the future, to talk about how we feel and to make sense of everything that’s happening right through to get through it together.
So in this episode, I’m sharing what’s been a pretty short 12 months for me from a creative point of view, personally, and how this weird lockdown experience has actually helped me to go back inside myself feel a bit clearer and what I guess just to find a bit of hope, when I least expected it. So thank you very, very much for joining me. If you like these Audio Stories, I’d be really grateful for any subscribes, reviews or shares. Right now more than ever, we’ve got to spread love more kindness, positivity and share more stories that help us get our feelings out of our head and into the world.
And that’s exactly why I’ve created this season of the podcast. Man, you know life is shitty right now so shitty. I’ve no doubt that we all agree on that front. My heart is breaking for everybody affected and yeah huge love and hugs all around that I mean the world feels dark and gloomy.
It is dark and gloomy right now but you know, we have each other’s backs and talking is good. One of my life mottos that I want to talk about today is should the sun beams.
And it also always makes me think of the quote the line in the twits by Roald Dahl, one of my favourite children’s books. That line; if you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like some beans and you will always look lovely.
And it just floods me with the good energy every time and I think it is is so true.
But to be really open and honest with you, I struggled with a massive creative block over the last 12 months.
I felt fine thinking about my incredible clients businesses and supporting them but when it comes to my own creative life,