Soul Salon with Ayandastood 31: the paradox of being sensitive — part 1: creativity 📝🎥🎨🥹
if you’ve ever felt that the same sensitivity that makes you drawn to creative work also makes you TERRIFIED of starting, finishing or sharing yours — this episode is for you.
the irony of this episode is more than i can express to you — throughout this process i faced so much shame, fear and avoidance (particularly in the editing phase). i feel there’s so much more to say and so much i wish i had said differently. but i'm telling myself that my inner critic is a LIAR, and & i'm choosing to let it be.
thank you today and always for being here on this journey with me. i hope that you receive my offering, and i hope my words take the shape of some of your wounds today.i hope you enjoy this episode, made with love <3
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Key quotes from episode:
“Our sensitivity can be the water that hydrates and nourishes our creativity, or the water that drowns it.”
Sources mentioned:
Book: Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World by Jenn Granneman and Andre Sólo
Poem: Why Bother? By Sean Thomas Dougherty
Book: The Creative ACT: A way of Being by Rick Rubin
Essay: The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action by Audre Lorde
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