Dr Rachel Connor

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Process Syndrome is closely linked to Learning Syndrome . Processors believe they just need to learn the right method and follow it to realize their creative dream. This often results in “going through the motions”of creation without ever entering a state of deep creative flow or producing something original.

Processes replace the ambiguous creative... See more

Scott Stevenson • How to Finally Make Something

Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning, and purpose to our lives.

Brené Brown • The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Creative grief

Brene Brown on spirituality - use this as a definition when writing about AI?

Connecting into why it’s valuable. Sometimes you get so lost in a project that you forget why you started it in the first place, or why doing this kind of work is important to you at all. If you reconnect to that, you’ll raise the perceived value of doing the work in your brain—and it will make it easier to stick with. Try writing about why the wor... See more

Dan Shipper • Why You're Not Doing Creative Work

The Prophetess: The Return of The Prophet from the Voice of The Divine Feminine

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When we deeply connect with another being, we touch the Divine.

Mirabai Starr • Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics

“Why is this so hard? Because you’re utterly habituated to steady progress—to completing things, to producing, to solving. When progress is subtle or slow, when there’s no clear way to proceed, you flinch away. You redirect your attention to something safer, to something you can do. You jump to implementation prematurely; you feel a co

Andy, Matuschak • Cultivating Depth and Stillness in Research

"The basement of creativity holds our deepest fears and wildest dreams. We must descend its stairs to find the raw materials of our art."

- Carl Jung, from his essays on creative process

“While grief may look like an expression of pain that serves no purpose, it is actually the soul’s acknowledgment of what we value. Grief is the honour we pay to that which is dear to us. And it is only through the connection to what we cherish that we can know how to move forward. In this way, grief is motion.”
– Toko-pa Turner “Belonging: Remembe