i changed my header (the photo at the top of this page) a little while ago. it used to say “let’s all live happily ever after” and now it says “create your own happily ever after”.
no matter what, my work is about happily ever after – about loving, appreciating and enjoying life. knowing that we can change anything that isn’t working for us and that we can create anything that we’d like to have in our lives. we humans are such incredible beings with such incredible potential. i did my making friends with creativity workshop earlier this week and in it i was talking about how the creative energy we use to draw and paint and make collages and do creative journaling is the exact same creative energy we use to create our lives. we can learn to harness and direct that energy towards what we do want which automatically directs us away from what we don’t want.
“let’s all live happily ever after” is a beautiful idea and it is the feeling that has inspired my work this year, and it’s what i named my art show. what i am feeling now is more of a call to remind myself and others that the happily ever after is something that you, yourself, create. it’s not about being lucky enough for it to all fall into your lap or about waiting for the right person to come along and give it to you, or about dreaming about happily ever after and not doing anything about it, it’s about being who you want to be and doing what you want to do right here and now.
so in making this change i see that i am feeling inspired to bring more of my work as a new thought practitioner (which could be described as a believer in possibility, a creator of dreams come true and a mentor for supporting others in making their dreams come true) into my art and my creative journaling and my creativity kits and workshops and what i share here. i’d also like to do some creativity coaching, similar to how i do new thought coaching, but bringing more creative play into it. i see new possibilities and ideas opening up all over the place.
i would love to hear from you about this… what kind of happily ever after are you creating for yourself?
andrea schroeder creates creativity workshops, downloadable creativity kits and guided meditations to support you in knowing and remembering that you are a creative being and you can create anything. you can do it. let’s make some magic.
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