by Sara Aurora Waters | Sep 27, 2019 | Creativity |
I knit a lot. I love knitting because it combines some of my favorite things, like colour, pattern and hand-crafting. I like the slow pace of it, and how I can see constant progress. And there’s a beginning and an end. In the past I struggled a lot with...
by Sara Aurora Waters | Jan 11, 2018 | Creativity |
When we are children we constantly keep playing. No one expects us to do anything else. We all are encouraged to draw and paint just for the fun of it. And then we start school and are taught that there is a certain way that we should draw. We learn that some people...
by Sara Aurora Waters | Jan 7, 2018 | Creativity |
There is a difference between being an artist and being creative. Everyone is creative – that is how we are born. Not everyone is an artist. Often we get confused around this and put pressure on ourselves to be artistic, when all we need to do is express. Take...
by Sara Aurora Waters | Dec 6, 2017 | Creativity |
Why are we holding ourselves back? You barely ever see a small child holding itself back. They are in the moment, happily oblivious of expectations and performance anxiety. They are busy being, and they are trying out different ways of being through role play and...
by Sara Aurora Waters | Oct 5, 2016 | Childhood trauma, Creativity, Uncategorized |
I often come across women (and a few men!) who still carry creative wounds from their childhood that are stopping them from expressing their creativity, and even from having the life they want. Why is this so common? I think we always do our best, as humans and as...
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