How to have Extraordinary Relationships S2 E10 - Dr. Catherine Ducker
Since studying at Central Saint Martin’s in the 90s, she has been farming, and planting, and growing, and mothering, but always, at heart, painting.
She sees myself as someone who watches, quietly, but also as someone who gets on and does, so I’ve grown multiple biodiverse wildlife corridors around her home in Oxfordshire, and painted magical and challenging moments.
She is surrounded by plants at all times, and whenever something takes her eye and moves her, she works with the feeling and paint, using colour to evoke the emotion. Sometimes her work veers towards the abstract, but she always circles back to the use of flowers, as a metaphor for my feeling of the fragility of life;the need to be in the moment.
She chooses to make uplifting work which reminds her to be present, to live fully, to be the best she can be, both aesthetically and in her life.
She also chooses to express her need for peace, and her determination to be conscious of the way she lives and its impact.
Key points of the episode:
- How she was a high achiever (and why) and how she nearly drove herself to burnout.
- Her painting and her thoughts on it.
- Her time at art school and how she loved it thanks to a wonderful teacher.
- How there is more love in her art now.
- How she is in a much better place now.
- How we should not be dis-eased with ourselves.
- What has worked for her with trauma release
- How she had found a way of "getting it all done" without burnout.
- The connection between farming practices, soil health and gut health.
- How her workaholism got in the way of her relationships.
- How she recovered from Burnout and working out how to work without panic and burnout.
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