LET’S MEET
Before we dive into a personal update of where I’ve been and what’s been happening, I have some important time sensitive information!!!
Can I meet with you virtually this week?!
Members of the tea party, at the end of this email you will find a couple of sneak peeks & an invitation for us to MEET, for some of us that’s meet again, for some of us, for the first time! This new offering I’ve been dropping hints about is coming further into form, can we meet so I can fill you in on what’s happening (& also offer you an epic early bird…!) ?
WHILE SPOTS LAST…I would love to meet you, this week, so please don’t miss out if you are feeling sparks and can hardly wait…scroll to the bottom :)
Free subscribers… if you have been considering a paid subscription, this would be one helluva time to join!
From my heart to yours, if you love what I share online, if it benefits you & your life, will you strongly consider joining the tea party for just over $2/week?
YOU WILL RECEIVE:
- access to every piece in full over the last year (free subscribers get a sip, as a paid subscriber you get the whole teapot!
- opportunity to read & post in the comments section, experiencing our pristine sisterhood
- opportunity for us to meet in this next fortnight which includes access to epic early bird of upcoming offering
- experience art via substack in a way that is intentional, slow, inspiring heart opening, soul nourishing and is…the way forward I believe
- the new offering via virtual exhibition…I am curating a beautiful experience for you all to feel and receive this energy on every level
Need I say more?
I am so grateful for each and every single member of the tea party. Together we have forged a new way and I know from what many of you have shared with me that this is such a delicious way to receive art and that it offers you a deeper experience than what is possible on other apps.
TEA PARTY I LOVE YOU!!!!!
(& I WANT TO MEET YOU/SEE YOU SO PLEASE BOOK IN FOR A CHAT…bottom of post for more deets!)
SOME NOTES ON MY CREATIVE PROCESS
My creativity visits me when I’m being swallowed whole by living…which is why I have scribbles through journals, through my kids colouring books, the notes app on my phone, various google docs and other non-sensical processes that make complete sense to me and noone else, as all creative process should!
When the spaciousness arrives (aka when I create it) I am able to soften and open into a passing thought, a spark, a feeling that yearns to be expressed. This is when I elaborate and I write.
In time this may change but I find myself partial to less is more editing.
I generally share things in their most raw honest form possible and it is my discipline to resist editing or explaining. I am drawn to share as it is, this is how I am in life too.
I believe this is why people trust me quickly, integrity is subtle and felt within moments of meeting another.
I had a friend say to me once, “you pretty much think something, write it down and then just like share it like done from there don’t you?”
And the answer is well yes… I do.
My energy works like this and the more I catch and release, the more I have to catch and release. Many people get stuck because they haven’t released, over and over again…and that my friends is what we call depression.
I know that I am here to help you liberate yourself creatively (book in a chat with me at the bottom of this email, I can help you sisssss!!!)
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THE WAY I BIRTH (HUMANS & OFFERINGS)
I’m so fucking proud of the way I birth
It’s between me and god, source, creation itself
That’s why in creation I NEVER have to play a game of competition because I create from the deepest part of me, it’s me and god
It’s an offering from my heart to my community
And the longer I go on this journey the more I realise and understand it’s not just a little human posting a little photo on social media for a like or comment (I believe that there is a diminishment of the courage and artform that is expressing ourselves through the channel / media we have!)
It’s me releasing the art from the deepest parts of me to my soul family.
That’s what my online community is to me.
I take it seriously.
I take it so seriously that I often go deeply inward before birth, so that it is so clean and clear and so that it’s fucking felt, way before it is even SEEN.
So that’s where I have been, in that.
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THE BIGGER PICTURE
What a UTI actually meant.
Not last Sunday the one before I found myself in an after hours doctor’s clinic with UTI symptoms. The receptionist only had to ask, “so what’s going on for you Amanda?” for me to burst into tears and then choke through the intake questions…
I felt it coming on the drive there…
I always get like this in these scenarios…
When emotions come, it’s very hard for me to ‘put on a brave face’…
My heart is worn on my sleeve, afterall…
The difference is that now I accept this in myself, I know that I will get emotional and I do my best to let it come & not apologise for it, just be with it.
Things have been so good the last few months, so joyful and so full of life…that I actually hadn’t cried for a sometime (strange for me!!) and that Sunday, I hardly stopped for the two hours I waited to see a doctor. By the time I actually saw them, it seems I didn’t have any tears left and could easily answer the relevant questions.
The tears, the UTI, it was a doorway, a portal to my internal world.
Not discrediting whatsoever the absolute discomfort that is a UTI. I revelled in a solidarity in that doctor’s clinic for the way in which every woman responded to me with, “UTI…the look” of like how shit is it… But beyond that, I knew my body was speaking to me.
Something is happening and it’s not just a UTI, whispered my inner voice.