LIFE 93: The Creative Cycle with Amber Bonici
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Description
The challenges we’re dealing with now are marathons, not sprints. You must nurture your own sense of vitality and well-being because you can’t give from an empty cup. This week, Amber Kuileimailani Bonnici, the founder of Woman Unleashed, joins us to share her four-part process for restoration and reconnection to self and Spirit through creativity. Learn how to restore yourself, start the projects that matter to you, and finish them, all while filling yourself up.
Have a beautiful week.
Cynthia
P.S. Ready to go deeper? Click here to sign up for the Woman Unleashed free retreat. I am teaching about staying centered and connected to your inner sense of power, joy, and groundedness.
Time Markers
– A learning journey (1:30)
– Welcome Amber! (3:04)
– Creating connects you to Spirit (7:24)
– The beginning place (11:55)
– You’re everything! (17:51)
– Transmuting our pain (22:26)
– Creative Cycle (27:24)
– Making this accessible with our children present (33:32)
– Our container for creation (40:17)
– Co-creation (44:55)
– Persistence and completion (47:34)
LIFE 93: The Creative Cycle with Amber Bonici
Quotations
Doing things that make us feel beautiful is a simple and powerful act that changes our state. And it is very easy to overlook and very easy to deny yourself day after day.
Think about what we’re really saying when we say to ourselves, “I don’t have to feel pretty, beautiful, or feel happy because it’s just me.” That’s crazy. It’s just you? You’re everything!
― Cynthia Occelli
Accomplishing anything in your life that is outside of your comfort zone requires support.
Your creation isn’t just yours, it’s you and a contract with Spirit.
― Amber Bonnici
Links
Amber Bonnici’s Woman Unleashed Retreat
OMG seriously??? WOW!! Hawaii, art, and ritual all in one episode! I had many different feelings and emotions with this one. First of all, I’ve been extremely happy being schleppy since mid-March, working at home. Bra-less, oversized t-shirt and shorts all day and every day. I haven’t even bothered covering my grey hair, cuz why bother? I am absolutely loving it and my isolation! Now, about art…it’s funny because I’ve never been able to “let loose” and just do art for the sake of exploration or fun. As you know, my art strives for perfection and for realism (that’s my fun). I would venture to say that I’m even a little OCD about that (or a lot). I’ve never even bothered with journaling sketchbooks because number one, I’ve never journaled. I’ll write a few pages and then lose interest completely. And number two, if I sketch in a journal, it’ll take far too long for me because of the perfection part. It’s pretty painful for me to just scribble or doodle something and leave it like that. And so the journaling (or not journaling as the case may be) brings me to ritual and how I have such a hard time with creating a ritual and sticking to it. Even regular meditation feels beyond my reach. The only “ritual” I’ve managed to date, is healthy eating and exercise. But meditation, time for drawing, time for writing, spiritual work…it just happens when it happens. And I know it can be better. I want it to be better. I know it can make me more productive. But like journaling, I do my ritual for maybe a week and then it falls off. I don’t know why I have such a hard time establishing a set pattern with those things. I want to try again but I feel like I’m beating my head against a wall. I’m not sure if I’m missing something. Time is an issue. I’m not a morning person. I hate mornings, even if I wake up at 9 or 10. I was born at night. That’s when my day begins and when I’ve always been the most productive. But under normal circumstances, I’d be waking up at 4am to get to work at 5:30 so I can use the gym on campus before work. With traffic, I wouldn’t get home until 6pm. And then it’s hurry up, get ready for the next day and try to squeeze in writing or drawing before bed. I refuse to wake up any earlier to fit the ritual in. Am I overthinking this?
YES! Sister, you are definitely overthinking things. The right rituals for you feel good. Give in to the clock. Adjust your lifestyle in whatever way you think you like and then LOOK at your production and level of satisfaction. Do what makes that best. Your intuition trumps (lol sorry) all. Tinker and review. LOVE YOU.
Mother Theresa used to make her nuns play for an hour a day. ❣️