PLAY & NOURISHING THE CREATIVE SELF

some prompting and invitations around play

Thank you to everyone who voted in the poll last month! The top results were creativity, ritual, and writing/writing process: more of all coming up. The poll is closed but you can still submit a question or topic here.

Yesterday, I did a tarot reading for someone where one of the messages came through the Empress: to nourish the creative self through the sensual self, to let sensuality be the avenue through which creativity is tended to, accessed, stoked.

(One of my favorite writers who does this so well is Mary Adelle of

Queer Jesus

.)

There are so many avenues to deeper access to the creative self.

One I’ve been thinking about is play.

Play is practice in curiosity cultivation, listening to ourselves and trusting ourselves, releasing expectations, orienting toward the process, releasing judgment, and having fun.

“Art is for everyone and painting is for everyone...whether we want or we don’t want to make a career out of it. It’s just an amazing tool we have at our disposal to play,” Carolina Arevalo shared on my podcast a few years ago.

When we orient towards creativity and art-making in the way Caro describes, we are orienting towards process and away from outcomes.

We let the experience of making the thing be the thing itself.

Today, I have a few simple play invitations and prompts for you to get you thinking about how you might like to P L A Y in the coming days, weeks, months to feed your heart, to feed your creative self: