I loved this chat with Marie Kenny, a creative coach who works to help artists and creatives manifest their highest creative potential. In a world where we often hear that creativity is a worthless, time-wasting endeavour speaking to Marie is a deep lungful of fresh air. If you feel you aren’t expressing your creative self (and, spoiler, we are all creative) then I hope listening to Marie will inspire you to get expressing. So, get yourself a cup of your favourite tea or take yourself on a walk and enjoy this conversation.
Ellen x
You can find out more about Marie on her website mariekenny.com and you can get inspired by her Instagram account @itsmariekenny.
Topics covered in this episode
- Why it’s important to connect to and express our creativity.
- Creativity in education, issues with the education system in South Africa (where Marie lives) and how creativity and supporting people to express their creative voices becomes even more urgent in a country with a history of colonisation, oppression and repression of voices.
- Marie’s journey from working a corporate job to finding her way back to the creativity she expressed and enjoyed as a child.
- The creative practices Marie brings to her day to day life.
- Marie’s experience being diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis and her journey with ‘alternative’ medicine and holistic health approaches.
- How Marie has started to connect with the more feminine and intuitive side of herself. Marie shares a brilliant, simple and short exercise to do if you want to start connecting to your intuition.
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Links and resources mentioned
- Marie’s podcast A Voice of One’s Own
- Sas Petherick’s podcast Courage and Spice
- The benefits of singing for health and wellbeing
- Some of my blogs and podcasts on Ayurveda, what it is and how to bring it into your life
- Ezzie Spencer’s book Lunar Abundance
- Marie’s blog post Inviting feminine energy in your creative business about how she plans her work around her menstrual cycle
- Witch by Lisa Lister
- The Intuition Journal by Jo ChunYan
- And finally the Blanchard bone is the bone with engravings thought to be tracking the moon cycle and the menstrual cycle on it
Listen to Create Shift S5,ep2 with Marie Kenny
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