Curating the Curious
Welcome to Curating the Curious, the podcast that celebrates staying curious in life and never settling into a box.
This show is for the creators, the seekers, the explorers, the truth tellers….and the forever students of life.
No matter what age or stage you’re currently at, this is not as good as it gets and it is never too late to begin.
Join me as we explore all of the questions that come with the idea of curiosity. A place where the possibilities are endless and you can always start again.
We expand our lives through curiosity. One of my greatest passions is finding ways to encourage and inspire others to keep pushing, sharing, living, and making things for the world to see.
Curating the Curious
Day 6- Art Therapy & Belonging
Welcome to DAY SIX of our new 30-day project where we make something with our hands every day to improve our mental health. We all realize that creativity heals...it's time to put that knowledge into action.
I'm going to publish an episode to follow along with several days of each week (I'll take breaks on Fridays and weekends in order to give you time to catch up as needed). These episodes will exist here, marked with the days numbered, in order for you to follow along at any speed that you like. Miss a day? Doesn't matter. Just pick up right where you left off and keep making things. These episodes will give us all some accountability, but if you need more, pair up with a partner. It really does help!
Join our creative community by making something today, whether it's for five minutes or several hours—your brain will thank you. Let's do this thing together and turn all of this sh*t into something beautiful!
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Fitting in and belonging are not the same energy. You can't feel as though you belong anywhere until you make a home for yourself in your own soul, a place where you are safe, whether flawed, achieving or in stasis. Fitting in is just the ego's desire to be like the rest, to move with the crowd. It is fueled by the unhealed parts we weren't taught to nurture early on. But it's never too late To feel that you belong. You must decide that you do Accept yourself through your own front door and make a home for life. You'll never feel the urge to fit in again if you belong at home within yourself. This is another one by Donna Ashworth, from the same book as Joy Comes Back, and the book is called Growing Brave.
Speaker 1:I went in my closet today and I found this wonderful book that is so perfect for this project that we're working on. It's called Essential Art Therapy Exercises by Leah Guzman. There's an entire chapter on collage making. Collaging is great because it involves sorting through imagery, cutting, gluing, assembling items to create this composition that you have in your mind, and then each art experience helps you gain insight into different areas of your life, and in this book there are several pages on all different types of collages. The one that I'm choosing today is called the I Am Collage. It says the benefits are increases self-esteem and coping skills. And you need a pen, you need a sheet, a large sheet of heavyweight drawing paper, magazines, scissors and glue. And the steps are you write I am in the center of the paper and then you look through the magazines for words that represent all of your positive attributes and you cut those out. You glue the words onto the paper radiating out from the words I am, and then you keep this image where you'll be able to see it, because it reminds you of your strong points and kind of helps your self-esteem when you're doubting yourself. This is also a really great activity to do with a child if you have one or children, it's a fun group activity or solo whatever. But I think it's so perfect for this project and I just want to make a note here that I haven't been working on this project that long and I haven't been off of social media that long. But I am so much more clear right now in my mind. I'm so much more present when I'm in the room with someone. I'm more present for my family, I have to say, working on, you know, a little creative thing each day and also being held accountable to sticking to recording these episodes is changing things in such a positive direction right now. I didn't know if I was going to be able to pull through on this and who knows, still at this point, but I'm doing pretty well. I have taken a few days off here and there and I am behind on getting this started out publicly in publishing, but I'm doing it and it's working and I hope it's working for you. I really do. I said it before creativity is vital, especially right now.
Speaker 1:I'm going to ask anybody that's been with me all of these days so far, and if you have never left a rating and review, can you please do that? It would be so great. Nobody has left one in like two years and it makes me sad, if I'm being honest, because I don't really hear from everybody that listens to this. You know people send me messages on Instagram, but I'm not on social media. So reviews, ratings, oh, that would make my day. I know I'm not supposed to care about that, but you know it feels good and I would love to know if this is helping anybody the way it is for me. But regardless. Keep it up and stay curious.
