Apri 20 creative or not creative

Excerpt from Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown

“As far as my own story, the older I got, the less value I put on creativity and the less time I spent creating. When people asked me about crafting or art or creating, I relied on the standard, “I’m not the creative type.” On the inside I was really thinking, Who has time for painting and scrapbooking and photography when the real work of achieving and accomplishing needs to be done? By the time I was forty and working on this research, my lack of interest in creativity had turned into disdain. I’m not sure if I would categorize my feelings about creativity as negative stereotypes, shame triggers, or some combination of the two, but it came to the point where I thought of creating for the sake of creating as self-indulgent at best and flaky at worst.”

From Jacque-I have found myself to be more creative than I have myself credit to be. As a pastor’s wife, full time teacher with 4 active, involved kids…dealing with depression for 8 years due to hypothyroidism- there wasn’t anything left within me to make something or be creative. I was spent. I have learned since that stopping to do to even the smallest creative act you can muster, leads one back toward your true self. 

Jot a one line poem, draw a stick figure, take a photo. Then affirm your effort and do it again, then again, and again. Your creativity may look different than others mode of creating…no comparison 😊