Everyone is a Creator
Happy lunar new year and 설날 (seollal, Korean new year)! It’s officially the year of the DRAGON. 🐉 How are we feeling?
Personally, I’ve reached the point in my pregnancy where my body feels pretty uncomfortable. I won’t burden you with my full list of symptoms, but let’s just say the goal is no longer to find a comfortable position—realistically, it’s to find a position that is as comfortable as my body allows.
My tiktok has inevitably turned into pregnant-tok, and one of the staples you might find in this corner of the internet is: a pregnant mama wakes up from her third nap of the day and is asked, “What’d you do today?” and she sassily responds with something like, “I grew a pair of kidneys and lungs, what’d you do today?”
I used to chuckle and scroll, but now I really get what she’s talking about.
Apparently, my baby is now the size of a cantaloupe this week. A cantaloupe!!
I got an app notification today that he’s most likely gaining half a pound each week until his birthday. He’s in GROWTH mode.
I’ve never been one to fall asleep unintentionally in the middle of the day (I’m not really a napper), but these days I crash in the afternoon and really at any point during the day, a sudden unintentional nap can take over and I wake up feeling confused at what time it is.
This is all to say, my body is actively creating and growing my not-so-little-anymore baby, and my body is feeling it! My body needs extra hydration, rest, grace, and compassion as I’m nearing the final stretch.
Creatorship Energy
Going through this 9-month pregnancy journey has been teaching me the lesson of patience…staying present and embracing the process.
It’s been bringing up a lot of thoughts around what it truly means to create something. What it means to be creative. What it means to be an artist. To bring something into existence: translating a thought, idea, a feeling, into something tangible. Bringing the divine earthside, putting form to spirit.
It’s all the more clear to me that we are all creators. We are all artists, in the way we choose to show up in our everyday lives.
In The Creative Act, Rick Rubin says, “Whether we do this consciously or unconsciously, by the mere fact of being alive, we are active participants in the ongoing process of creation.”
It was back in my first trimester when the phrase “creatorship energy” came to me and felt deeply resonant in my body. When my baby was merely the size of an elderflower seed, with a newly beating heart and the beginnings of a spinal cord but many vital organs not fully formed yet.
Still, I remember feeling, wow. I’m literally creating human life. I can do anything. It’s the same frequency that I can tap into, to conceive, nurture, and birth my wildest dreams.
In this way, I suppose, mothers are the ultimate artists. Creating life. Growing, nurturing, birthing human life.
Pregnancy and Creativity
In a recent coaching session, I was reminded of a tendency I have when it comes to creativity and entrepreneurship. Here’s how the loop goes.
One moment I get SUPER inspired, I see the vision, and I excitedly jot it down before I lose it.
I feel boundless energy coursing through my veins and all I want to do is birth it into reality. It’s full steam ahead on pouring my energy into conceiving, growing, and preparing for birth. I’m on a fast track to birth it as soon as I can.
A few days later, I get another hit of inspiration, which morphs the baby into a potentially different project. And then another iteration. The cycle continues.
While this may sound exciting (it is), I also have noticed a tendency where I burn myself out by going too fast, doing too much, speeding through much of the gestation period—first, second, third trimester—straight to birth prep and birth, which can then feel premature sometimes once I birth it out into the world.
Yes I can course correct and learn as I go. But the constant stop and go, go go go, burnout, rest, recover, start over cycle has clearly not been working for me.
So this time around, I am trying a different approach.
I am intentionally slowing myself down, to an uncomfortably slower pace. Relieving myself of time constraints and pressure to push out my vision according to an artificial timeline.
Instead, I am taking my time nurturing my creative baby to set up a strong foundation and committing to show up consistently in fewer things. To invest in longevity, momentum, and sustainability. And the health of my creative baby.
Even if it means that the nurturing I provide my creative baby is not as visible to the outside world, I know that this gestation period will be key in allowing my creative baby the time and the environment grow safely and steadily.
Wherever you are in your creative process—whether you’re in the conception stage, gestating, nurturing, birthing, resting, or in active transformation mode for a rebirth cycle—I invite you to give yourself some grace and compassion.
The creative act requires so much energy that goes unseen.
For my literal pregnancy, I am in my third trimester. My belly is physically and actively expanding day by day, the baby is getting heavier and heavier, growing and growing, and my body is preparing for imminent birth.
For my creative process, I would say I am somewhere in my first trimester. Establishing the foundation, starting to form the vital organs, the spinal cord of my idea. It’s not my first time at the rodeo, but in this creative rebirth process I currently find myself, I’m realizing that if I want to do things differently this time, this first trimester period is so imperative for a solid foundation.
Each phase requires a different kind of nurturing and support, and each phase is key in birthing and growing something beautiful, sustainable, and aligned. Each chapter comes with its own unique challenges and also its unique magic.
My hope is that we can all remember to nourish our mind-body-spirit as we continue along the ups and downs, twists and turns, pregnancy and birth of our creative journey.
If you’d like support on your own creative journey, book a consultation with me. I’d love to hear what’s present for you and how I can help.
Leaving you with a quote that captures the urge I felt, the surge, the seed of intention I felt driven to plant, that led me to begin sharing here through this newsletter…
“In the moment when we feel the work is taking shape, there’s a dynamic surge, followed by an urge to share, in the hopes of replicating that mysterious emotional charge in others.
This is the call to self-express, our creative purpose. It’s not necessarily to understand ourselves or be understood. We share our filter, our way of seeing, in order to spark an echo in others. Art is a reverberation of an impermanent life…
Each of us has our own way of seeing this world. And this can lead to feelings of isolation. Art has an ability to connect us beyond the limitations of language.
Through this we get to face our inner world outward, remove the boundaries of separation, and participate in the great remembering of what we came into this life knowing: There is no separation. We are one.”
— Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rooting for you,
Eunice
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Hi 👋🏼 I'm Eunice (she/her).
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