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Kat Short
A creative spark in a podcast. The encouragement, truth-telling and motivation you need to cultivate a creative practice and live your joyful, exquisite, wonder-filled life.
CONGRATULATIONS!!! You've completed the 45-day Radiance Rituals! This is no small thing. You have chosen to create a practice around creativity in your life and give time to what gives you time, presence, and joy back.
Today's prompt: Create a written 'treasure chest' of all you have noticed, gleaned, and grown from these days of making.
Today you are going to brainstorm your daily creative undertaking moving forward, after the Radiance Rituals conclude tomorrow
Prompt: Look back on a few of your past entries from this 45 day experience. What strikes you from what you've read? Do you notice any themes, symbols, opportunities for deeper exploration? Write what it feels like for the you of today to read of the you of yesterday.
Excerpt by Grant Petersen
Prompt inspired by Austin Kleon
In honor of Women's History Month you are going to spend today's creative time writing a poem, letter, wish or offering to a woman in your life.
Today you're going to choose a younger version of you and listen to her favorite song from that time frame. What came up while you were listening?
Today you are going to refresh your creative space! Rearrange, add flowers or other beautiful things, clear and clean. The goal is to make this space feel renewed and refreshed
This one is a quirky one... come up with a weird and wacky Halloween costume idea!
Bonus points for actually making it happen next Halloween:)
Treat yourself today! Spend your creative time doing something special for yourself, just because :)
Take a walk around your neighborhood and challenge yourself to snap photos of subjects you wouldn't typically notice. See what beauty you can find when you look a little closer and get creative with lighting and angles.
Prompt: How did this walk change the way that you feel about your surroundings? What did you notice that surprised / delighted you?
Prompt: Choose a common cliche´ and write a poem, vignette, memory inspired by this common phrase
Phrases:
- Money doesn't grow on trees
- Garbage in, garbage out
- Cat got your tongue
- You know what they say
- Cry me a river
Poem By: J. Sullivan called 'Color & heat'
Prompt: Where has writing taken you both in the world and in yourself?
- Write a list of 3-5 things that you're feeling curiosity around
- Choose one of the things on your list and spend your creative time exploring it
- Optional reflection: What came from your exploration?
Turn on a song and let yourself move in whatever way feels good. Once you are complete, pull out your journal and let what wants to come out come out.
If you need a little prompt, here is one:
What's moving through me is...
Here is a movement playlist should you need some ideas!
Prompts (choose one or all):
I am being uplifted by...
I would like to release...
I wish I could...
I forgive myself for...
I am looking forward to...
I am excited by...
Prompt: Write about your relationships with recurring sighs and symbols in your life. What do they mean to you? Have you looked into their archetypal meaning? If so, what surfaced?
Book Mentioned:
Signs : The Secret Language of the Universe
By: Laura Lynne Jackson
Take a trip down memory lane and write about a trip or experience from the last 24 months that impacted and influenced you most.
Today you're going to play travel guide to your own state, town or neighborhood. Write your own special guide to the place that you live. Bonus points for sharing your guide with friends and family!
It's a rest day :) I encourage you to take yourself somewhere completely new or do something that you have never done and relish the experience of possibility and delight
Reading Emily Dickenson's timeless poem today:
“Hope” is the thing with feathers
BY EMILY DICKINSON
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -
I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.
Prompt: Use her first line and create a writing of your own... 'Hope is the thing with feathers'
Today you are going to tap into your creativity and express yourself through your personal style! Choose an item that brings you joy and wear it today. If you'd like to write about the experience, you can use the prompt below:
Wearing _____ today made me feel...
Today you're going to spend your creative time playing with mind-mapping! If you need some inspiration, here is a good example of a mind map
If you need a word to go off of, here is one: REGAL
Parts are the different personas that exist within us - examples: the artist, the nerd, the athlete, etc...
Today you're going to have a written conversation with one of your parts that needs some care and attention
Today you are going to check in with yourself and bring non-judgmental awareness to how you are spending your time and energy. Are you spending your time in a way that feels good? Are you carving out time to nourish your creativity and self-connection?
In this episode, I read a beautiful poem by Rupi Kaur from her book 'the sun and her flowers'
Prompt: Begin your writing with the words... this is the recipe of life
Today you are going to share appreciation for the specific wonders of your life. Number a page from 1-20 (or more if you like!) and write down 20 specific and personal things that you are grateful for.
Did you know that spacious rest is a crucial part of the creative process? Well, it is! Today you're going to rest and reset in whatever way that looks like for you: a long walk, a bath, a solo dance in the kitchen, wandering through a beloved bookstore.
Let yourself release any feelings of needing to do and simply...be.
Today you're going to be writing about an identity that intrigues you but is one that you are resisting stepping into. At the top of the page, name the identity (I am a writer. I am a mother. I am in process.) And let yourself free write what your life looks like when you claim that identity.
Prompt:
What would your life look like without the flavor of fear?
What would you cultivate in the place of fear?
Today we are one week in!
Prompt: What are 3 things you can let go of before bedtime tonight? How does it feel to let them go? What is created in the spaciousness?
Find a book, magazine, cookbook, newspaper that is close to you and open intuitively to a page and read the first thing you see (a word, sentence, paragraph). Let this inform your writing today.
For this writing exercise, you're going to get quiet and ask yourself 'What is most meaningful to me?'
Today we're writing about HOME.
Grab your journal and make a list of 10-20 places, experiences, smells, songs, people who feel like home in the world.
Welcome to Day 1 of the Winter Radiance Rituals!
These are daily creative activations that you can do in 30 minutes or less. Think of it as a writing retreat in a podcast :)
Today's prompt is a check in:
I am...
I feel...
I desire...
I release...
Date the journal page so that you can look back to this first day and see how far you've come!
For your walk today, you are going to soak up the generous abundance that is all around you. Let yourself be filled to the brim with every step.
A 15-minute fire session about the relationship between creativity and abundance. This session will provoke and prompt you to think about your relationship to creativity, flow and distraction!
Today, you're going to take yourself on a 20-30 minute walk with the intention of delighting in curiosity. This is an opportunity to see with new eyes and feel the wonderful humility and perspective that comes with beginner's mind. If you'd like, after your walk, you can write to the prompt: Something I've never noticed before is...
Welcome to the 5-day Walk with Wonder series! Today is Day 1 and we'll be focusing on sensation. Put on some comfy clothes and shoes, pop in your headphones and let's go for a walk!
Welcome to the Cafe Radiance Podcast! This is the first episode and I'm so excited you're here. We'll talk about what creativity really is and what you can expect from the podcast as a whole! Today's Prompt: What makes me feel the most alive in my day? What does this aliveness feel like in my body?