Life = Possibility = Creativity
Why I know I’m still here
In Chinese medicine they say a person dies of old age when their heart stops believing in life’s possibilities. There was so much about having a child that opened an incredible array of possibilities for me…
But there were also so many possibilities, the endless fractals of what could be, that seemed to end overnight.
It’s no accident that a mother’s sense of her own vitality and creativity ebbs the moment she stops believing in the possibilities of her own life.
This past week’s class Relighting the Creative Fire was so potent and intimate and powerfully special, I thought it would be fun to share a short clip here with you about this very topic…
Watch to drop into:
The link between creativity, possibility, and your life-force.
How mothers function as the weather systems of their families
What studies say about the importance of our own personal joy
Why the pursuit of your creative spark is a form of intergenerational healing
Also, folks have been reaching out to ask if they could still get access to the replay, so I’m leaving the page up for now! If gifting yourself an experience of reconnecting with your fire is lighting up possibility within you, come on in.
Till next week ❤️🔥
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Asia, you probably don’t remember this, but during a meal once at WISE, you and I were talking about parenting, and I was sharing my story and how much PTSD I felt I had surrounding it. I was well into my sixties at the time. Anyway, you know how much I love you, but when I saw that you’d started this newsletter and that it was about mothering, I resisted subscribing because, honestly, the subject can still bring up old (and, to be honest, present-day) pain. After the hurricane, I wanted to support you however I could, and I finally subscribed. After reading through some of your posts, I realized that the support is mutual. Even at this stage of my life, your reflections on mothering are so honest and WISE and, well, nurturing. How ironic is that?
I sound like a broken record when I say how much wisdom you carry for someone so young. It makes me wonder about your past lives. How you weave all of life and all of you, including your Creativity, into your writing is such a gift.
One of the hardest things for me during my young mothering years was that I had set aside my artist self. Many years later, well into my fifties, I discovered the book “The Rainbow Way: Cultivating Creativity in the Midst of Motherhood” by Lucy H. Pearce. I wished I’d had that book as a young mother. Like in all other aspects of life, not every woman will be that Earth Mother type who embraces motherhood with every inch of her being. At the time, so much of my identity was wrapped up in being an artist, although I desperately wanted to be a mother.
Oh, the irony - I graduated from art school just months after we adopted our son. The head of the department came up to me at graduation and said, “Don’t let happen to you what happens to most female artists who become mothers.” It felt like a slap in my face but a part of me felt the truth in his words.
Ok, this is a ridiculously long comment, and for that, I apologize. I loved this post so much, my friend. Thank you. XOXO
Asa, this is amazing. I resonate with this so much. I loved the archetype quiz on your website as well. Are you open to podcast guesting? I’d love to have you on my podcast “Who we are and what we need” to talk about our life fire, especially as mothers, and your book, and earth archetypes. I’m about to release season 2 this fall. 💛🤩🙏