This podcast is 20:02.
This week’s guest: Rachelle Mee-Chapman, soul care specialist
Website: Magpie Girl
Community: Flock
Twitter: @magpiegirl
About Rachelle…
Rachelle Mee-Chapman is a spiritual director specializing in care for creative souls. A self-professed embracer of whimsy, Rachelle packed up her Seattle home and moved to Copenhagen, Denmark. There she lives the ex-pat life with her husband, daughters, and one very silly dog. You can find her at Magpie Girl, where she provides assistance and inspiration to artists of all sorts. Or join her in the Flock, an online soultribe of artful, spiritual women dedicated to “finding a spirituality that fits.” If you like what she’s dishing out, follow her on Twitter so you don’t miss a thing, and hop on her mailing list for special offers and the occasional surprise gift.
Show Notes…
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Isn’t it wonderful to mark the New Moon? It gives us a fresh start, a new beginning every single month. What’s stirring in you today? That’s the question that is going to guide us in creating our dreamboards for the Full Worm Moon.
How are you liking that full moon name? There are other more beautiful names for this moon: the full crow moon, the full sugar moon. But regardless of its beauty (or lack thereof), the Full Worm Moon seems just right to me at this time of year in the Northern Hemisphere. This Full Moon presides over a time when those dreams and wishes that have been hibernating start to feel the energy of the returning sun and tickle at you. Something is ready to come alive. What’s stirring?
This New Moon being in Pisces also gives us the opportunity to deeply connect to our intuition, to what’s rumbling beneath the surface. This will be a beautiful time for letting your inner self guide the creation of your dreamboard. Let yourself be drawn to images and trust yourself to choose ones that have a message for you. When you post your dreamboard on the Full Moon, notice what has been revealed.
Often we come at our dreamboards from the other direction. We know we want to go to Paris or write a book or nourish our bodies or get a puppy and we actively search for those images, adding them to the board and energizing that dream. This is a powerful process! Amazing things can happen. And it’s also interesting to see what unexpected messages just might show up if you let your intuition create the board. (By the way, I created Soul Reflections with exactly that purpose in mind. It takes you through the creation and decoding journey, helping you discover the hidden messages on your board)
Enjoy this New Moon and the gentle stirrings that are asking for your attention. I look forward to sharing our discoveries under the Full Worm Moon.
PS Not only is it the New Moon in Pisces but it’s also the New Moon on Monday. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist!)
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From time to time I love to feature the clients and community here at Jamie Ridler Studios. When Megg finished Soul Reflections, she emailed me right away and told me… well, she’ll tell you what she told me. I was so moved that I asked her to share her story here! I hope this invites you to claim your own magic .
Featured Client: Meghan Genge
Website: Creating Wings
What are you creating in the world?
Right now I am trying to create a world that feels like home. I know that sounds selfish and strange, but I know that until I am able to look myself in the face and recognize what I see, I will not be able to give the world everything it needs from me. I have realized recently that an enormous part of my daily living comes from a place of fear and as long as that is how I operate, there is no hope of me ever feeling at home. As dark as that sounds, I feel like this is opening me up in huge ways.
When I finished Soul Reflections the first thing I did was write to Jamie and tell her she had kicked my *ahem* butt! I had done vision boards before, but the activities Jamie has you do make you go so much deeper than would do on your own. I felt like a part of myself that I had been ignoring took over and completed the board for me. Soul Reflections showed me that I had been living a very grey version of my life. Everything on it sizzles with magic and passion and colour and connection. There is a vitality and a vibrancy that comes from it that really surprised me. Where was that in my real life and why did my own board scare me a little bit? As I said to Jamie, it was a real kick to the system.
What have you learned about yourself?
I have learned that the parts of ourselves that we think we have hidden the best (or have forgotten about) are the ones that need our attention the most. Raised a good girl in a religious family, I thought I hid my interest in magic and spirituality well. Looking back I know that my family actually would have fully supported me, but for some reason I was ashamed of (or maybe scared of) the brightest, most passionate bits of myself. When I bought SARK books I would sit in my bedroom with my back up against the door so no one would catch me reading. I bought tarot cards and then hid them in my closet thinking nobody would notice. (HA! My brother bought me a spells book one birthday. Talk about noticing!) I know now that I was scared. For some reason - who knows what - I was scared of myself. I was scared to let go, to be bright and full and loud and magic and dark. I was scared of my own power. In many ways I still am. This exercise reminded me that all of it is still there and that I want it back.
What would you like to celebrate?
Jamie’s Soul Reflections! Giggle. I really do highly recommend it.
Soul Reflections: The Home Edition is a a collage and journalling workshop-in-a-box designed to get you in touch with your true self and your heart’s desires. To find out more or to purchase Soul Reflections, click here.
PS Megg has also been a guest on Creative Living with Jamie. You can listen here.
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What do you wish to say no to?
You can be a maker of magic and a tender of wishes. It’s easy. Answer the wish prompt above on your blog and then add a direct link to your post in the box below. Support wishes by visiting other participants, leaving a comment saying “As (insert name) wishes for her/himself, so I wish for her/him also.” It’s that simple. There is great power in wishing together.
I just have to share with you some of the magic that was stirred here recently! Check out what happened with Kate’s travel wish! Isn’t it amazing? If you ever have Wishcasting joys and magic you want to share, please email me. I love to hear your stories.
And if saying no is a challenge for you, I wrote a post about coming up with your Absolute No list that may give you some inspiration.
Here’s to our wishes!
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This podcast is 27:00.
This week’s guest: Keri Smith, author, illustrator, guerilla artist
Website: kerismith.com
Blog: Wish Jar
Keri’s Books: Her Amazon Author Page
About Keri Smith…
Keri Smith is an author/illustrator turned guerilla artist. She is the author of several bestselling books about creativity including How to be an Explorer of the World and Wreck this Journal. She is the author of the popular blog, the Wish Jar, which attracts over 10,000 readers daily. Keri spends her days playing with her husband and son, and divides her time between upstate New York, and the countryside of Canada.
Show Notes…
- I mentioned that The Next Chapter book blogging group had an awesome time going through Wreck this Journal. You can find the book here
and follow our journey here.
- Keri mentions the impact of Bruce Mau’s Incomplete Manifesto.
- Here is the quote Keri was referring to is by Wendell Berry: “”Always in big woods, when you leave familiar ground and step off alone to a new place, there will be, along with feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the unknown, and it is your bond with the wilderness you are going into. What you are doing is exploring. You are understanding the first experience, not of the place, but of yourself in that place. It is the experience of our essential loneliness, for nobody can discover the world for anybody else. It is only after we have discovered it for ourselves that it becomes common ground, and a common bond, and we cease to be alone.” The Unknown Wilderness
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- I actually talked about getting comfortable with discomfort in the intro to last week’s podcast.
- All of Keri’s books! They each bring their own take on radical creativity! Find them on her Amazon Author Page.
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I’m reading The Art of Extreme Self-Care: Transform Your Life One Month at a Time
by Cheryl Richardson and one of the concepts she shares that I love and am using is the Absolute No List.
Managing our boundaries is a potent form of self-care. The first step is getting clear on what your boundaries actually are. A clear picture in your heart and mind gives you the confidence to say no in the moment. No futzing, hmm-ing or haw-ing. No need to talk it over, worry or weigh the pros and cons. If you’re offered a job with a 60-minute commute and you’ve decided 30 minutes is your max - decision made!
You probably have some absolute no’s that you’re clear on already and there are probably quite a few things that if you added them to your list would make you feel a whole lot better. One way to find your absolute no’s is to pay attention to when you get annoyed, angry, frustrated or stressed. Ask yourself, “What is going on that I really want to say no to?” Maybe it’s “I say no to working late” or “I say no to being late” or “I say no to guilt-trips.” Write it down and make a commitment to honour it.
I’ll give you a personal example. It was a tough one. I had an opportunity to work with a great group. I was excited and raring to go. As we got closer and closer to the date, I hadn’t heard from the organizer. We hadn’t arranged any details. Before I knew it, the date we’d talked about was right around the corner. I started to worry. I couldn’t start making lists and getting supplies and planning the agenda and creating the content. I really wanted the opportunity but…
All of this discomfort made me think, “What is my absolute no here?”
I will say no to even the best opportunities if I feel rushed and like I don’t have what I need to show up empowered and prepared.
That was tough! I imagined people saying, “Jamie, be a go-getter. Dive in. Sometimes opportunities show up and you have to go, go, go!” I worried that if I insisted on this standard, I’d lose out. But then I reminded myself of some of the things I’d lose out on: stress, rushing, being ill-prepared. I was ready to let those things go! So I created a boundary centred on how I felt and what I needed. If I feel relaxed and prepared to show up in 30 minutes, I will. If I feel rushed and ill-prepared with 4 days, I won’t. This feels like an awesome standard to me!
What are your absolute no’s?
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