Creatrix

NAUTILUS SILVER AWARD 2019 in the category 'WOMEN & MEN IN THE 21ST CENTURY'

Creatrix is more than just a fancy name for a female artist. She is artist plus...artist plus priestess, artist plus healer, artist plus activist: her work has both sacred and worldly dimensions. She is an energy worker first and foremost, weaving energy into form, colour, words and sound, in order to transform herself and those her creations touch.

What does it mean to live a life in service to your creativity, and in direct connection to the creative source?

In this, her ninth book, Lucy H. Pearce, award-winning author of Burning Woman, Medicine Woman and The Rainbow Way shares...

• Powerful practical insight into all parts of The Creative Way.
• The unique challenges for women artists and writers.
• How to align with your authentic voice and The Work that calls you.
• Techniques for harnessing your powerful creative energy and dealing with fear, anxiety, creative blocks.
• How to earn your living creatively: building a social media platform, working sustainably, creating multiple income streams, networking when socially anxious...
• How our creativity can be our most potent transformational medicine.

With Creative Inquiries and Practices, this interactive book is written for all those that must create in order to live: for the Highly Creative, the Highly Sensitive, the multi-passionate, for those that shake when they share...

Soulful, serious-minded, irreverent and authentic, let Creatrix take you on a journey to the heart of your creative soul.

THRESHOLD

WELCOME 2 …

to the Book 2 …to the Creatrixes 8 …to Me 12 …and Finally, to You 14

1

CREATIVITY 20

The Road Less Travelled 20 What is Creativity? 21 Conscious Creativity 22 The Highly Creative Person 25 Create or Die 27

ARTIST 33

Am I Really Creative? 33 My Family and Other Creatives 36 What Do You Want to Be When you Grow Up? 39 The Severed Self 42

CREATRIX 45

Highly Creative Women 45 Why Women Don’t Make Great Art (and other lies) 47 Creator/God 52 The Creatrix Archetype 53 Embodying Creatrix 55 Dark Voyages of Soul 56 The Heroine’s Journey 57 Other Archetypes of Creativity 60 The Creative Way as a Path to Psychological Integration 62 Creative Inquiry 63 Creative Practice 64

2

SPACE 68

Space and Time 68 A Room of One’s Own 68 Clearing Space 70 Taking Up Space 71

TIME 75

Claiming Time 75 Chronos and Kairos 79 Rhythm and Routine 80 Deadlines 83

PROCESS 84

Visualising The Creative Process 84 The Inner-Directed Spiral 88 The Turning Point 103 The Outer-Directed Spiral 105 The Process at a Glance 113 The Embodied Spiral 118 Creative Inquiry 119 Creative Practice 121

3

SOUL 124

Psyche 124 The Iceberg 125 Soul as Guide 127 Magic 129 Ritual 130

THE WORK 134

Calling 134 Hearing Your Calling 135 What is The Work? 136 Source 140 Skills 142 Vocation 143 Channelling 145

VOICE 149

Originality 149 The Wild Voice 150 Gifted 153 Discovering Your Own Symbology 155 Soul Archaeology 157

CONNECTION 159

Connecting 159 Connection to Body 159 Connection to Cycles 162 Your Guide to Creating Through the Cycle 164 Connection to Feeling 166 Connecting to Place and Time 168 Connection to Materials 170 Connection to Community 173 Creative Inquiry 176 Creative Practice 179

4

FLOW 182

Fluidity and Solidity 182 Finding Flow 183 The Flow State 184 Direct Encounter 187 Creative Flow – A Neurobiological Reality 189

CHAOS 194

The Opposite of Flow 194 Resistance is Futile 195 Blockage 197 The Madness of Art 200 The Darkness 201 Burnout 204

HEALING 208

Art as Medicine 208 Recalibration 212 Follow Your Bliss 215 Creative Inquiry 218 Creative Practice 219

5

COURAGE 222

The Constant Companion 222 Breaking Silence 224 Fear in Context 225 Getting Naked 230 Seeking Approval 232 We Step Up…Shaking 233

SUCCESS 236

The Spotlight and the Shadows 236 Glamour 237 Critics, Trolls and Other Nasty Arseholes 239 The Inner Critic 241 Perfectionism 244 Stop Waiting…Start Now 247

MULTIPLICITY 249

Too Many Passions 249 The Polyamorous Creatrix 251 Choices, Choices 254 Self-Care 258 Practical Organisation for Multi-Passionate Creatives 259 Creative Inquiry 261 Creative Practice 263

6

WORK 266

The Creative Entrepreneur 266 The Big Bang Myth 269 A New Way of Working 271 Creating a Work Day that Works 272

NETWORK 277

Sharing 277 Public/Private 279 Brave New Worlds 282 Building a Social Media Platform 288 The Springboard Philosophy 290 Marketing with Soul 291 Creative Networking 293

MONEY 299

Money and Soul 299 The Value of Your Work 302 Creative Income Streams 303 A New Economy 309 Creative Inquiry 310 Creative Practice 312

CENTRE

I CREATE MY WORLD 316

Afterword 319

Notes on Language 320

Glossary 321

Endnotes 327

GRATITUDE 330

Connections 331

Resources 334

• Books 334


• Audio 338


• Film 339


• E-courses 340


• Online Teachers for Creative Entrepreneurship 340


• Online References 341



 
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Index 345