Striving for perfection and constant people-pleasing not only keeps us stuck seeking external validation, it also leaves us disconnected from our creativity, our needs and desires. Deep down below layers of the “nice person” is a wild and free creator who isn’t afraid to make mistakes or get messy. In this episode we explore deconstructing the programs and scripts that keep us stuck and offer tools and practices for becoming real with ourselves and those around us…and how the creative process and the imagination can get us there.  Join our Soul Nectar Online Community! It's our new monthly membership with live Zoom gatherings, a private Facebook group, and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com (Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudioFollow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

Making art or engaging in any creative endeavor requires a certain amount of vulnerability. So does just being ourselves in the world in an open and authentic way, especially when things feel risky or uncertain. In this episode, we address the challenges of “showing up naked” and being seen for who we are in life and how creative expression supports the practice of vulnerability by getting honest and up close with ourselves. Join hosts Jenny Hahn and Stephanie Gray for a raw and revealing conversation!Resources:Brené Brown’s TED talk: The Power of VulnerabilityJenny’s deck: Wisdom of the Shadow: Oracle for Self-Discovery, Soul Work & TransformationJoin our Soul Nectar Online Community! It's our new monthly membership with live Zoom gatherings, a private Facebook group, and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com (Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudioFollow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

What happens when we engage the creative process to reimagine the past or greet a difficult feeling in the moment with movement and color while creatively giving it what it needs? Transformation can occur when we show up for ourselves willing to co-regulate the tough stuff with the paintbrush or the pen. Join hosts Jenny Hahn and Stephanie Gray as they share thoughts and experiences of their own on this important topic. Join our Soul Nectar Online Community! It's our new monthly membership with live Zoom gatherings, a private Facebook group, and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com (Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudioFollow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

Heart wisdom is a deep intuitive knowing that goes beyond the limits of the rational mind and intellect. But how do we access the wisdom of the heart? How is creative expression a portal for moving into the heart space? And why is this so important right now? Join hosts Stephanie Gray and Jenny Hahn as they delve into a heartfelt conversation and offer tools and practices for tapping this inner wisdom through creativity. Resources:HeartMath InstituteArticle: “Thinking with the Heart”Article: “Heart Intelligence”Join our Soul Nectar Online Community! It's our new monthly membership with live Zoom gatherings, a private Facebook group, and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com (Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudioFollow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

When you receive creative guidance, ideas or inspiration, where exactly does it come from? Is the creative flow or spark something that is generated within or is it received from outside ourselves? How is the creative act related to channeling? Join Stephanie and Jenny as they share thoughts, stories, and dive deeply into this intriguing and thought-provoking topic. Resources:Book Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence by Jenny HahnBook Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth GilbertSteph’s Channeled Painting: GuidanceJoin our Soul Nectar Online Community! It's our new monthly membership with live Zoom gatherings, a private Facebook group, and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com (Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudioFollow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

Stepping into the unknown can be scary, but what if there was a way to make it easier? Can we use the creative process to help us trust what we don’t know or understand? Join Jenny and Stephanie as they discuss this possibility and share experiences where their studio experiences have spilled over into their daily lives, bringing magic and mystery to both the journey of creating and to life itself.Resources:Steph's blog post about allowing magicBook: Trust the Process: An Artist's Guide to Letting Go by Shaun McNiffBook: Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence by Jenny HahnYouTube video: Taoist concept of Wu WeiJoin our Soul Nectar Online Community! It's our new monthly membership with live Zoom gatherings, a private Facebook group, and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com (Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudioFollow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

What stories do you tell yourself about your creativity? Do you believe we are ALL creative? Join Stephanie and Jenny as they weigh in on this question and explore the way creativity is defined in western culture, how we often limit creativity and keep it in a box, and how fear, worry, and doubt can get in the way of creating the future we most want to see - even though engaging creativity is proven to increase happiness and wellbeing. Whether you identify as an artist or claim you don’t have a creative bone in your body, listen in on this thought provoking discussion and receive tips for engaging your curiosity and tapping your own inherent creative potential.Resources:Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, by Elizabeth Gilbert Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas, by Becky BladesJoin our Soul Nectar Online Community! It's our new monthly membership with live Zoom gatherings, a private Facebook group, and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com (Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudioFollow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

Sharing our truth and perspective while bumping up against another’s can feel uncomfortable and even a bit scary sometimes. The need for a change in how we communicate is necessary if we are to move forward into a life of diversity, harmony and inclusion. Is this even possible? Could the creative process retrain us to move from the heart even in the midst of difficult conversations? Join your hosts Jenny and Stephanie as they dive into this multilayered topic with creative insights and tools for moving into a new way of relating.Resources:“You can’t hate someone whose story you know” fromTurning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future by  Margaret J. WheatleyNon violent communicationAuthentic RelatingConscious Connections KC (Meet Up Group)Join our Soul Nectar Online Community! It's our new monthly membership with live Zoom gatherings, a private Facebook group, and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com (Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudioFollow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

The experience of anger or even rage can be uncomfortable, but when we don’t have an outlet it can project outward as violence or inward as self-destruction, helplessness and dis-ease. Sacred rage is a natural protective and expressive impulse that arises when we become aware of an injustice and feel compelled to take action - and creative expression can be a healthy outlet for meeting sacred rage and gaining clarity on what we’re most passionate about. Join your hosts Jenny and Stephanie  for a conversation and tools for working with your own sacred rage through creative expression. Resources:Jenny's painting titled Sacred RageJoin our Soul Nectar Online Community! It's our new monthly membership with live Zoom gatherings, a private Facebook group, and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com (Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudioFollow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

Is your nervous system overwhelmed? Chances are you’re familiar with some of the signs of a taxed nervous system - in fact, this may quickly be considered the “new normal”. So how do we counterbalance the effects of stressors in our lives using creativity? Jenny Hahn and Stephanie Gray dive into this topic and share their own stories of what it’s like to recalibrate their nervous systems with art making and more.Resources:The Nervous SystemThe Vagus Nerve and Soothing The Nervous System (article by Anna Mikhova) Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us (book by Ivy Ross and Susan Magsamen)Join our Soul Nectar Online Community! It's our new monthly membership with live Zoom gatherings, a private Facebook group, and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com (Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudioFollow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

Shadow work is a topic gaining more awareness in pop culture, but it's a process that can bring with it lots of fear and resistance. The shadow refers to the aspects of ourselves that are buried, forgotten, or still completely unconscious ~ and often get projected onto others. However, shadow work doesn't have to be scary! In this latest episode (released on Halloween day) we delve into stories of meeting our own shadows and how to use creativity to support your own shadow exploration and integration. Resources:Wisdom of the Shadow Oracle for Self-Discovery, Soul Work & TransformationJenny's brand new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy EssenceBook referenced by Pema Chodron: When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult TimesJoin our Soul Nectar Online Community! It's our new monthly membership with live Zoom gatherings, a private Facebook group, and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com (Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudioFollow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

How do you follow your own inner guidance when making decisions? Are you easily swayed by unexamined thoughts and assumptions – that might even belong to someone else? What does your “inner yes” look and feel like, and how do you receive input from the body as well as the mind? In this episode, Stephanie Gray and Jenny Hahn dig into the topic of cultivating your inner yes and how to follow your energy during the creative process as well as beyond the studio. Join Our Soul Nectar Online Community!Join our Soul Nectar Online Community! It's our new monthly membership with live Zoom gatherings, a private Facebook group, and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com (Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudioFollow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

Is it possible to use creativity to help in the process of forgiving ourselves? Self-forgiveness is a BIG and important topic that we meet head-on in this episode! Join hosts Stephanie Gray and Jenny Hahn as they share from the heart about their own self-forgiveness journeys and offer potent creative tools to help you navigate your own.Join our Soul Nectar Online Community! It's our new monthly membership with live Zoom gatherings, a private Facebook group, and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com (Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudioFollow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

Our world is changing rapidly and, as with any change, we can experience grief. How can we engage the creative process to help us feel and lean into our grief? And can that process also bring us into a place of hope and curiosity for building the new? Join hosts, Jenny Hahn and Stephanie Gray as they share their own experiences on this topic as well as some creative ways to meet the changing world.Join our Soul Nectar Online Community! It's our new monthly membership with live Zoom gatherings, a private Facebook group, and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com (Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudioFollow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

It’s perfectly natural to compare - our brains are wired for it. However, when we insert  value judgments into the mix, things can get messy. Comparing ourselves to another or others (creatively or otherwise) and believing we are somehow less than can dampen our creative spark  both inside and outside the studio. Join Jenny and Steph as they dive deeper into this topic and share stories and practices to help manage "comparison despair".Resources:Martha Graham quoteWild Geese poem by Mary OliverJoin our Soul Nectar Online Community! It's our new monthly membership with live Zoom gatherings, a private Facebook group, and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com (Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudioFollow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

To live authentically means to live in alignment with your deepest truth and to express from that place of inner connection and belonging. It goes beyond your social roles, obligations, and the masks we all wear to get by in the day-to-day world. Join Jenny and Stephanie as they share stories, prompts, and creative tools for discovering your truest self and creating space for new identities that are wanting to emerge. Resources:Wisdom of the Shadow oracle deckJoin our Soul Nectar Online Community! It's our new monthly membership with live Zoom gatherings, a private Facebook group, and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com (Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudioFollow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

What is joy and how can we bring more of it into our lives? How can creativity actually support us in cultivating more happiness and positive experiences, despite our evolutionary tendency to focus on the negative and what could go wrong? Join Steph and Jenny for reflections, personal stories and creative expression practices you can do to cultivate more joy in your own life. Join our Soul Nectar Online Community! It's our new monthly membership with live Zoom gatherings, a private Facebook group, and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com (Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudioFollow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

Grief can show up at unexpected times and take many forms, from the enduring sadness after a loss or death, to the emptiness of change and endings, to the pain of never having had something in life. Grief is natural, and it’s important to offer it a safe space when it arises. Join Steph and Jenny as they share stories of meeting grief and offer tools for working with it creatively. Additional Resources:Stephanie's article: The Big Squeeze, Grief and the Medicine of NowJoin our Soul Nectar Online Community! It's our new monthly membership with live Zoom gatherings, a private Facebook group, and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com (Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudioFollow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

How are you relating to the feeling of anger? What are your beliefs about anger in general, and how are you meeting it in your life? Join Steph and Jenny for a deep dive into anger, creativity and how creativity can not only help us process the feelings in a healthier way, but also how anger can fuel our creative process.Additional resources:How Anger Can Enhance CreativitySteph’s ArticleJoin our Soul Nectar Online Community! It's our new monthly membership with live Zoom gatherings, a private Facebook group, and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com (Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudioFollow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)

Have you ever missed out on an opportunity (creative or otherwise) or lived life in a smaller way because of fear? What would it be like if you were able to get curious about that fear and in some cases, even befriend it? Join Jenny and Steph as they discuss their own experiences with fear and how they were able to creatively meet it. They’ll also share some tools to help you when you encounter fear in your own life.Join our Soul Nectar Online Community! It's our new monthly membership with live Zoom gatherings, a private Facebook group, and resources for your creative self-discovery journey (hosted on Ko-fi.) More information at www.creativenectarstudio.com (Also reach out to us here with questions, topic requests, or just to send some love)Check out Jenny's new book! Creative Flow: Tap and Express Your Juicy Essence**If you love our show, PLEASE leave a rating &/or review through the platform you are listening. This helps us tremendously, and we are SO grateful 🙏**Discover more on Instagram - the podcast comes to life with stories, reels and images around today’s topic! @creativenectarstudioFollow our individual work: Jenny Hahn Art and Steph Gray Art(Intro and outro music by Tim Behrens)