Sarah’s Creative Journey

Have been meaning to post for a long while, but haven't gotten around to making it a priority. But I received an email this week that adds to my last post of self love, so thought I would share! Some back story on why I got this email:  I joined a facebook group called Women Unleashed, which helps guide women creatives to use their talents and get the most out of their life. Part of being in the group includes weekly emails from the Founder, Amber Bonnici, about how to refocus ourselves and keep moving forward. The one she sent this week was titled, "Time for a heart to heart." In it, she writes: Most still equate self care with being selfish. Even if you say you don't think that way, there is this other voice in the back of your head who is telling you, you need to do more, give more, share more. That inner task master doesn't see self care as important. 21 Reasons to Create a Self Care Practice 1:: Improves your immunity 2:: Increases positive thinkin

One difficulty I keep facing over and over nowadays is being separated from friends or people. This occurs in such a way that we all feel a bit farther removed from each other. We don't constantly see each other (either at school or work), and it is hard to keep in touch. Everyone is so busy with life that it's hard to make time for ourselves, the people around us, our family, and friends or acquaintances far away. We are always so busy that our mental health and wellness can fall by the wayside. To combat this mental wellness, I have undertaken various tasks and steps to help. Just in the past year, I have started meditating and looking more inward.  Already, I have learned so much about meditation and have come to a more comfortable stage with actually sitting down with myself and looking inward. In doing so, I have been able to locate some weak points, but also have found to be able to calm myself and mature as a whole person. Another thing I have learned and want to sha

So I've been doing a lot of busy work. Busy work in the way of trying to figure out how to narrow my artistic focus. How to keep working on art daily and why I have trouble creating without outside pressure. How I get myself to sit down and see more results -or finished pieces and not scattered unfinished ideas. It hasn't been an easy road and though I still feel as if I haven't physically produced much, I think the work is there and slowly adding up without me knowing. Just yesterday I realized I had no more pages in one of my sketchbooks. So I must be doing something.  The good news is I'm feeling better about moving forward. I have found a few things that have been working and things I could do to help myself grow. So here's to each new day. To discovering more about myself and to learning all I can. Feel free to follow my journey as I post my mistakes and new projects.

Though I'm definitely not the expert on meditation, I do believe I have learned quite a bit in the past 7 months or so. I'm not sure initially what kept drawing me toward meditation, if there were random people in my life that kept mentioning it, if it was Frankie from Grace and Frankie, or if it was just my surroundings and myself trying to say, "Hey! You need some time to yourself and a way to calm and relax your mind and body!" Or maybe the fascination has been there for many years that I have now finally started to delve into it and show up for myself.  However it started, here I am now, meditating on a somewhat regular basis.   While watching youtube videos and online classes have significantly helped, Headspace (the app) has really gotten me comfortable with sitting down to meditate. There are many methods to meditating, but showing up is the main key--which can be the hardest part. I'm not sure what exactly I expect to learn from meditating, but here&

I just finished reading this book, and I am so awed with White's journey and his gratitude and openness to share his successes and failures. Even though he doesn't go into much detail about his time with The Lion King, I feel that knowing his backstory and everything that lead up to him gaining (and maintaining) the part of Mufasa has made me connect with The Lion King even more. This book is helping me ask questions and give some thoughts into introspection. I'm so excited about some of it, that I wanted to share parts of it with you. Ironically, the very things we naturally love to do often bring us the most uncertainty, the most discomfort. But that's because they are so important to us, and so revealing of who we are. The good news is that the more we let the world see us as we really are, the more support we find from the people who matter. Going forward and doing what we love, whether it's singing or sports or making robots, can actually give us the will a

A year has already passed since I made my list of 30 goals. But yet, I have only completed two so far, and am in the midst of "completing" or writing about another.  Despite the numbers being very low, I feel like I have accomplished a lot in this past year. Especially considering many of these are not just one time goals. So even though I have only completed two, I am in the process of working on 10 other goals-either intermittently or simultaneously. I have traveled to 2 out of 5 new states. I have come a decent way in my latte art making (and I keep learning more everyday). I have been using Photoshop for actual projects at least a couple times a month--a very slow but steady start. I've already attempted baking with some handmade dough recipes. I am still in the midst of illustrating a kid's book. I have been doing a decent amount of meditation. I am on page 155 (or so) of Italian HP7. I have learned to make a couple of cocktails. I spent one weekend v

Awhile ago I read a book called Creativity, Inc. written by Ed Catmull. In the book, he talks about Pixar and how the original team have kept the Pixar name and movies great. He goes behind the movies to the people creating them and talks about the struggles they have and how the leaders have tried to hold the company together during major changes. In doing so, they have had to come up with some creative and new ways to keep the work from getting stale. Though there are many great insights in the book, the one that has really stuck with me is Andrew Stanton's motto, "Fail faster." His thought behind it being that the faster you try new things, the faster you can fail and the faster you can learn from your failures. I love that idea. We all have to fail at some point, and we will always have to fail again to move on. So why not just embrace the failures? Why should I be scared of failing? I'm still able to create, which is the main goal to begin with. So in my 30