This Experience Changed My Entire Life

I was living in Boulder, Colorado over twenty years ago.  I was in the most beautiful surroundings, had my first real job out of college and many friends. Yet, I had this looming feeling that something was...missing.

It's when I discovered the book, The Artist's Way, that I was blown away by the concept that we are all creative. I had longed to feel creative for so much of my life, yet some time during my middle school years I started to believe my thoughts that told me, I wasn't good enough, that I wasn't creative enough, that I'd never be as good as them and that I definitely was not an artist.

Oh, how wrong those thoughts were, and they really limited me from living my fullest and most authentic life.

Around the same time that I discovered this life-altering book, I dove more deeply into yoga.  My yoga teachers and practice taught me that I was not my thoughts.  What another mind-blowing concept at the time!  You mean, I was not the thoughts that said I wasn't good enough?  How could this be?  

That was the story that I had held onto for so long. That was the story that kept me from taking risks. That was the story that kept me feeling comfortable, and prevented me from growing. That was the story that allowed me to use fear as a protective blanket to keep from shining too brightly.

Believing I wasn't good enough kept me safe (or so I thought at the time), but it certainly didn't make me happy. I knew in my heart there had to be a better way and I knew I had so much creative fire burning inside me.

I needed to learn how to channel it! I needed to quiet my restless mind. I needed to learn how to nurture my creative wounds and open my tender heart. I needed to explore my fears with gentleness and compassion. I needed to break free of trying to do things perfectly. I had to learn how to tap into my intuition, how to connect with it more fully and how to courageously express it more freely.

Exploring The Artist's Way with others (recovering perfectionists / self-doubters / people with creative wounds like me) changed my life in profound ways.

I was introduced to this book book in 1999. A new friend invited me to join a small group of women so we could explore the weekly lessons together.

Every Monday for 12-weeks we gathered to talk about the insightful readings, share our personal stories and create together. We did our “morning pages” and took ourselves on artist dates (as suggested in the book).

At the end of this 12-week journey all of our lives had changed in so many ways. I moved back to Kansas City, landed a job at an art studio, met my husband and stepped more fully into my gifts as a teacher, mentor and creative guide.

Eventually I launched my own online self-discovery and creativity courses, became a yoga and meditation teacher, stepped into my intuitive gifts as an energy worker and healer. I've coached and mentored thousands of women over the years and continue sharing my passion of inspiring more and more beautiful souls to return to their true nature and to awaken to their own creative gifts, intuition, authenticity and magnificence.

I'm now feeling guided to lead a special group through the process that changed the course of my life.

When you pay more attention to your limiting thoughts you can break free of the ones that keep you stuck and small. When you explore your inner life and reconnect to your creativity, you open up the gateway to your intuition and authentic self.

When you open that channel your energy can flow more openly and freely, and this is where you feel safe to be your true self, where you can step more fully into your own power and feel courageous enough to be the creator of your life!

You are creative.  You are an artist.  You are enough, just as you are.  

You are powerful with brilliant gifts and it's time to shine brightly, to embrace your imperfect self, to let go of worry, to take more healthy risks, to feel vulnerable and to see where this adventurous journey of life takes you next.

Your life is a work of art and you are the creator of it.  What would you like to create next?  What would you like your future to look like?  Let's dive deeply and discover this together.

As Julia Cameron says, "stop telling yourself it's too late. Stop waiting until you make enough money to do something you'd really love. Stop telling yourself, It's just my ego whenever you yearn for a more creative or authentic life. Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible. Stop fearing what your family and friends will think. Stop telling yourself that creativity is a luxury and that you should be grateful for what you've got."

As you learn to nurture and protect your inner artist and authentic self, you will be able to move beyond the pain and creative restriction that limits your life experiences. Through this process, you will see your energy flow in new ways.  You will experience the magic, expansion and freedom that comes when you let go of doubt, worry, anxiety and fear, and heal, grow and expand into the creative spiritual being you've always been in a bolder and more powerful way.

It's time to discover new things about yourself and recreate your life.  

Let's take this spiritual path to higher creativity together.

I am offering an exploration of The Artist’s Way, with my own intuitive, creative spin on it. Think of it like “creative art camp” with Shannon. I have seven Zoom calls scheduled from June 6th - August 29th. (Call recordings will be available!)

We’ll explore the teachings in the book, I’ll lead you through simple, yet fun and rejuvenating creative projects, and you’ll get to grow, feel inspired and experience greater JOY while you connect with others from around the world.

NOW truly is the time to be the fullest expression of your true self. Focusing on your creativity puts you in a higher vibration - one that is in alignment with your intuition and authenticity.

When you are in alignment with your true self - MAGIC HAPPENS. The law of attraction works when you are in sync with your true nature.

I can’t wait to see how your life unfolds as you nurture and nourish your creative spirit. You are designed to shine. You and your dreams matter. LET’S DO THIS!

Visit The Artist’s Way Exploration for the details. (Early Bird pricing is going on now through May 1st.)

Keep taking extra good care of yourself during these changing times.

With love,

Shannon

A Free Spirit Life | www.ShannonKinneyDuh.com