Ep.13. Flourish in Your Creative Life with Emma Shields
In today’s episode, I’m joined by Emma Shields, who is a life coach and somatic therapist-in-training and has been a member of Flourish: The Art of Creative Living for many years now. In fact, she was part of the inaugural round way back in 2015 and I’ve loved being part of Emma’s creative living adventures ever since.
In this episode, we explore her personal creative living story, how she learnt to cultivate a creative process that was easeful and produced results she felt proud of, how creative expression supports her in her full-time role at work, and lots more.
I loved recording this episode with Emma and I’m so honoured to have her on the show. I’m really thrilled to share this one with you today.
Let’s dive right in.
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In this episode you'll hear:
Emma share how the pain and discomfort of not expressing her creativity became the catalyst to take the leap and prioritise self-expression
How Emma began to paint again after years away
How she learnt to cultivate a creative process that was easeful and produced results she felt proud of
Realising she was a creative being, after all
Valuing the creative process itself, after focusing on the end result
Discovering freedom by removing her fear of ‘mistakes’ or stuffing things up
The difference between being results-driven vs being present
The nourishment we can find in the present moment, instead of putting off self-care until we ‘get there’
How creative expression supports her in her full-time role at work
How creative expression fills her up and gives her energy to for all the other areas of her life
Somatic therapy and how it can support us to feel safe amidst the powerful and unsettling emotions involved in the creative process.
Meet Emma Shields
Emma is a life coach and somatic therapist-in-training who supports creative sensitive passionate women to discover nourishment beyond food, freedom in their bodies, and a career they love (without a side of burn out).
Connect with Emma here: www.emmashields.com
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Until next time, be gentle with yourself, nurture your creativity and follow your heart and I hope you have a lovely day ahead.
With my warmest wishes,
Nicola xx
PS. I’d love to know what you thought about this episode….please leave a comment below if anything stood out for you. And of course, you can always comment below to let me know about any other topics you’d like me to explore in the Art of Creative Living Podcast.
