Honestly, I have been avoiding my easel.🤦🏻♀️
Honestly, I have been avoiding my easel.🤦🏻♀️
Yes, school holidays has been chaos
Yes, we all have a persistent cough
Yes, we only just started getting full nights sleep again
Yes, I want these last days of snuggles before first day of big school & daycare! (More emotional than I realise)
BUT
I’m also allowing Resistance to talk me out of picking up the paint brush too easily.
So I wanted to remind myself — maybe it will help you too
🔥Resistance is a sign you’re on the right path.
🔥You ARE an artist. You have been called. You have a vision AND YOU AGREED to bring it to life.
🔥Claim your artistry. Claim your calling. Claim your partnership with Resistance.
🔥Embrace Resistance: it’s as clever as you, it’s trying to protect you, it will be the sign of your next step
For me:
Resistance has been whinging about...(& please know...Resistance & my inner critic also enjoys telling me the answers to the whinging too to give it that double whiny flavour. Yum!)
🔥I don’t have enough new canvases (so go order some Brenda! Duh! *roll eyes*)
🔥I’m too tired, I’m not in the mood, I don’t feel inspired (you are tired because you haven’t sat down & connect with Muse. AND you’re an artist. Artist create & sit their ass down regardless of ‘feelings’. Leave the feelings with the amateurs and let’s make the art!)
🔥I hate being interrupted and the kids are driving me nuts!
(Ok. I’ve been ‘inspiring’ you to take more baths and go to bed early. PLEASE GO DO THAT.
Also, there is no such thing as perfect time - remember when you had a full hour and all you did was dick around on Facebook? Yeah. So get your ass in front of the easel & put paint on Canvas.)
All this waiting for perfect time & lamenting the lack of tools. Waiting for the ‘inspiration’ or ‘feelings’ are my usual Resistance.
Cos Resistance can be pretty predictable and unimaginative like that. It tends to use what always works and repeat it over and over.
And honestly, all that Resistance and whinging is just a way to hide a deeper fear.
🔥The true fear is that I’m scared I’m not actually worthy of the art.
That I won’t make anything good enough to sell AND I’m a bad mum for taking away snuggle time.
Now that I've been doing this for a long minute & recognise my own flavour of Resistance... when I see it I KNOW it means it’s time to embrace imperfection and ‘throw paint on the canvas’
I also have to remember (& keep practicing!) my own
#MuseMamaMantra:
I’m a better mum WHEN I CREATE. I bring all that joy, release, inspiration, connection & magic back to my mamahood.
I'm more patient & compassionate, because I have connected with my calling.
I'm more kind & flexible, because I have unleashed the tension of creating
I'm more relaxed & open to new things, because I've just encountered flow & inspiration.
I want to be all those things when I connect with my babies.
Don't you?
Maybe you need to do that?
⚡️Ask what your Resistance is saying
⚡️Dig deeper to what the true fear is.
⚡️Then, how can you ‘throw’ paint on canvas?
💖p.s I’m starting with my painting on my kitchen bench again & my A Spiral Painting A day project. (Coming soon!)