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Creativity: Drawing from the Inner Well

This Jungian Life Podcast

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The Shoemaker's Attitude Toward the Unconscious

In a fairy tale, the shoemaker has to choose between buying leather or food. When he's running out of leather, he leaves it on his workbench and behold, these elves come and make him shoes. The story is about how we can feel like that when we're in a creative process. But there is this joining with it where you need to kind of do your work. You need to get up in the morning and write for 15 minutes. And then just trust that the unconscious will come with the rest of it.

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