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 7- Write In Order To Discover What You Already Know
Welcome to DAY SEVEN 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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Real transformation isn't about doing more. It's actually about doing less Less of the things that your younger self put in place to protect you, get praise and receive love. Welcome to the great unraveling, the great unraveling of midlife. What a ride it has been the ups, the downs, the wake-up calls, the epiphanies. At this point it just feels endless. I thought I would be done by now, but I'm not even close. I've recorded several episodes on so many topics that have to do with this and have either put them to the side or erase them, because I listen back to it and I think, mm. Mm-mm. This is. I am not through this one yet. I should not be speaking on this topic, but the one thing that I do feel really good speaking about is this whole thing about doing less of those things that your younger self put in place to protect you, to get praise, to receive love.
Speaker 0:I believe that writing, journaling, however you like to do it I think that that is one of the most effective ways to parse out what you're really feeling. When this ache or this whisper appears to you and you start thinking, hmm, something feels off If I write about it and I dig further down into that, that's where I come up with the real answer of what I'm feeling inside. I write to discover what I already know inside of my body. My body knows it, but it hasn't made its way up to its head yet until I can get it onto the paper. And once I get it onto the paper I understand it. So this is one of my favorite writing prompts so far in Sekha Juwad's the Book of Alchemy.
Speaker 0:This is the prompt. Complete the sentence if you really knew me, dot dot dot, if you really knew me, and fill that in. You can write one or many of these statements. I wrote pages and then sit with them and you ask yourself what would your life be like if people knew these things about you? How would your circle of friends change? How about your job? And then so on, so on.
Speaker 0:This is a really good way to get back to the center of you, who you are, what matters to you, what your values are your values? Not the ones that people think you should have, or that you think you should have, or that fit with the people around you. What matters to you? If people really, truly, knew you, what would they know? I'm considering reading my list off in one of these episodes, but I'm going to save that for now. You can either use it today or just keep this writing prompt in your back pocket for a day when you don't know what to do for your project. Carve out 20 minutes, sit down and write to discover what you already know and, until next time, stay curious.
