Happy New Trust Moon!

Welcome to August and our cross-quarter marker.  We are halfway through the summer. The summer moon/months are the most expansive time of the natural year.

Starts on August 17!

 

Any approach that renews your
self-confidence and keeps you
moving forward is worth cultivating.

The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp

 

I help with, what I’m good at, creating ideas and inspiration so that you have a set of power tools to jump-start your creative process.

Beginning, on August 17, I’ll help you generate a conscious connection to your Manifest-Station with four new empowering tools.

During these action-oriented summer months, it makes good sense to pay attention to the way that you talk to yourself. August is the moon/month to practice trusting yourself, others, and life in relation to your Creative process. (Here’s a link to one year ago to help you recall how far you’ve come).

I can say without a doubt that my life has been helping me to identify the areas where unwanted emotion and its side effects have bubbled up. The image of what this year has brought brings to my mind a lava flow, boiling its way to the sea!

Uncomfortable feelings arise for good reason. Yet they cannot remain without becoming poisonous. By facing them we can bring them to the surface, see them clearly, then release them.

I can feel the tremendous shift that has taken place for me. It reminds me of when my studio was located (for 5.5 years) in the former high-security lock-up ward for women in the Fairhill Psychiatric Hospital. Along with the nearly dozen rooms for sleeping and gathering, ad min, and dispensing medications, there was a cell midway down the 100-foot-long corridor.

I felt compelled to connect with the spirits of the women. Many had been held there for years with no say. My being there alone every day, arriving in time for the sunrise and working until after dark I could hear the echoes of their anguished cries.

Sometimes I would step inside the padded cell and close the door. The spongy floor under my feet made my footing unsteady, and my hands pushing into the walls left a momentary imprint. The high ceiling completed the enclosure. Everything other than the small steel mesh glass window in the door was encased with a thick gray vinyl padding.

I invested more than five years working in that space while considering what it means to be an outcast, shut away, and unable to engage with self, others, and life in a creative self-expressive way. Today there are artists like sculptor Kimberly Chapman returning to these facilities scraping away the layers of history to expose another level of institutionalized inhumanity.

These are volatile times. Our health and well-being as Creatives require that we advocate for ourselves. We need to stay as close to our Center as possible at all times. My years working in the space where so many women had been confined inspired me to open the doors and invite the community in, we shape-shifted the environment bringing our creative dance through the halls, sharing the power to create month by month as well as during weekly circles of creativity while I was Artist in Residence for the The Art Studio. 

My studio in the former high-security lockup ward for women in the Fairhill Psychiatric Hospital, 1993

I provide the following list of words to give you a focused Creative boost.
  
Listen to your self-talk and Trust what makes your heart sing!

 

Keywords to support your capacity to Trust specifically related to the Creative Energy of August 2022:

 

 

Need to Tune-UP^ Your Trust?

If you, or those around you, or the content that you consume via books, news or videos, etc.,
are out of balance, you may notice some of the following qualities.

Decide then if you are going to continue leaning into these negative zones.

Eliminate these and enhance your ability to Trust yourself, others, and life in August 2022:

 

Confused
Anxiety
Crisis
Discontent
Defeated
Nervous
Exhausted
Overwhelmed
Hurt
Resistant

This is the natural month to Trust yourself, Others, and Life as you
build on your creative vision for this year.

Join our band of merry Time Travelers

Starting August 17:

Learn more here

This 4-module summer camp, Explore Your Greening Force, will cover ideas that relate directly to your Manifest-Station, how to organize those ideas so that they are sane and generative, several of my secrets for generating ideas demonstrated, and 4 shortcuts that will align you with Natural Circadian Time at the moment… NOW!

Module One:
Setting the Stage

arrives in your email box on

Wednesday, August 17 

Register 

Just $60 …

and less for Charter Members
(pick up the code in the private Facebook group
or email me: drozda33 at gmail.com)

 

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We grow together and there has never been a better time to work from hOMe. I look forward to seeing you in Summer Camp!!