Artistic Spirit

Hello, I’m Katie Moran an author, poet, advocate, creativity coach, and social entrepreneur. This is the Artistic Spirit Podcast, your place for art, mental health, and spirituality. This is Artistic Spirit’s most powerful episode. I’m here with Sharon Valenti- a serial entrepreneur, coach, and trainer. She is the founder of Sharon’s.club

Sharon discusses overcoming limiting beliefs and sexual abuse as well as trauma recovery. She talks about how abuse cycles and patterns are conditioned and how you can heal from them.

You can become the person you need. You can give yourself the love you deserve. You can heal and form new beliefs about yourself that empower you and reframe the limiting self-beliefs formed from traumatic experiences or abuse. You can accept yourself the way you are.

Here are reminders from Sharon

• You create your reality
• Take full responsibility for your life and what happens
• Let go of beliefs about yourself you formed from traumatic experiences
• You can accept what happens in your life by living in the moment
• Show up as you

If you are struggling with self-confidence and limiting beliefs, look in the mirror, affirm yourself, and watch what comes up for you. Reframe any negativity that comes up with courage. Lift yourself up.

If you are suicidal now, please call an emergency suicide prevention line in your area for help. If you are looking for reasons not to kill yourself watch my suicide prevention video here.

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I’m Katie Moran- an author, poet, advocate, creativity coach, and social entrepreneur. I am a sexual assault survivor and have PTSD from the experience. This is the Artistic Spirit Podcast, your place for art, mental health, and spirituality. This episode is with Leah Jones- an author, poet, and mental health advocate. Her first book was a collection of poetry on mental health titled “Semi Colon;: Poetry To Take You Through a Journey Through Mental Health Awareness” and her second book on mental health awareness and workplace stress titled “Listen!”

Leah started writing poetry as an outlet for healing. She recommends writing poetry or a gratitude list as a healthy coping mechanism and to overcome self-harm.

“I really do think that my poetry saved my life. And I want it to save other people's lives.” -Leah Jones

Here are some reminders from Leah:

• Your mental health and well-being are your priority
• Don’t compare yourself to edited photos on social media
• Point out the things you love about yourself
• Know the signs of when someone needs help and don’t be afraid to ask if someone you love is suicidal
• No job is worth your mental health
• Speak up when you are being bullied

If you have a goal to self-publish on Amazon, Leah suggests finding a supportive community, looking for instructions on Amazon, and googling any questions you have.

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I’m Katie Moran- an author, poet, advocate, creativity coach, and social entrepreneur. I am a sexual assault survivor and have PTSD from the experience. This is the Artistic Spirit Podcast, your place for art, mental health, and spirituality. Arame Ndoye is a podcaster, a life coach trained in Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT), an author, holistic healer, and speaker. She has found healing from a history of sexual trauma and now coaches other survivors to their own path of healing. Arame has reminders for anyone who has experienced feelings of worthlessness due to past trauma.

Arame’s reminders for you:

• Know feelings of worthlessness are not true
• Change your own inner dialogue- tell yourself you are worthy
• Intentionally escape negative feelings that are overwhelming
• Boundaries come with practice: have self-compassion
• Know what your boundaries are and then communicate them
• Boundaries come from the place of deciding what’s right for you
• You don’t need anybody’s permission to take your power back

Arame makes it very clear that if you are healing from feeling unworthy from experiencing trauma, that your inner dialogue matters and feelings are worthlessness are not true. You are inherently worthy of healthy experiences and self-protection through boundaries. Arame recommends for anyone feeling emotional pain to ask yourself: “where do I feel this in my body,” to have more compassion with yourself; this practice was life-changing for me. This allows for you to reframe your negative self-talk. You have the power within yourself to reignite feelings of safety, because you are worthy of feeling safe inside your own body.

Arame’s tips for putting yourself out there online:

• Post even with the fear of putting yourself out there
• Change your narrative about putting yourself out there- you will get what you think
• Tell yourself you are excited instead of nervous
• Just start, even if it’s small
• Don’t wait for everything to be perfect
• Make it an intention to post consistently with a frequency that is right for you

Connect with Arame here:

https://linktr.ee/aramendoye

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I’m Katie Moran- an author, advocate, poet, creativity coach, and social entrepreneur. This is the Artistic Spirit Podcast- your place for art, mental health, and spirituality. I’m here today with Kerri Van Kirk. Kerri Van Kirk is a Human Design Catalyst, Coach, Healer and founder of GUMPTIONTM Method. As a creative, she’s a poet, storyteller, podcaster and singer/songwriter.

In terms of finding the right people for your content, offerings, and art- Kerri reminds us that we’re not for everyone. She believes there are people you are meant to connect with and resonate with them on a deeper level.

“There's something about when you put yourself out there, the people that are meant for you will find you.” -Kerri Van Kirk

Kerri describes Universal Health Principles (UHP) as a practice that recognizes the validity in all ways in which people see the world. UHP tunes into the energetic body, emotional body, physical body and environment. Kerri also founded the GUMPTIONTM Method, a technique that brings awareness and courage. She streams the GUMPTIONTM warmup on Live Warm-up Platform. This method brings full connection and presence.

Reminders from Kerri:

• You don’t have to be fully healed or perfect to find love
• When you feel “not okay” tell someone
• Love requires you to know when you deserve more

If you are looking for a way to set a goal or intention, Kerri discusses setting intentions at the new moon and observing your growth or manifestation through the moon cycle. She describes her method as a way to make goals stick.

Connect with Kerri Van Kirk here:

https://kerrivankirk.com/

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Welcome, I’m Katie Moran an author, poet, advocate, speaker, creativity coach and social entrepreneur. This is the Artistic Spirit Podcast, your place to understand artistry. I’m here with MJ Coppola! MJ is an author, poet. creative warrioress coach, and podcaster. She hosts the podcast Mirrored Wellness.

We are hosting a 30 day creative sprint in our discord community, Creativille. MJ discusses how her first poetry book came out of the momentum she gained during a creative sprint. She credits her writing momentum to the first sprint she was a part of. If you are looking to gain momentum in your writing, we’d love to have you join our 30 day here.

MJ has been on an AI art journey. She utlizes it as a technique to hold space and prompt writing on the projects she is exploring. You can find her AI images on her social media accounts where she shares these prompts with the world. She calls this process a way of exploring and honoring her inspiration. You can find the software she mentions here.

MJ and I run a RNTKY: Suicide Prevention discord server and host a mental health Twitter Space every Saturday 12pm EST. It’s a community that’s a safe space for mindful mental health, gratitude, and self-discovery. If you are looking to find more gratitude and a supportive community, you can join here.

“...I’ve realized just showing up means a lot” -MJ Coppola

MJ shows up to her writing session where she holds space every Saturday from 10:30am-11:30am EST. It’s a silent coworking session. I attend on Saturdays and write with her for that hour. It’s on google meet. I like to describe the energy as the feeling of a warm hug. To me, it feels like sacred time and sacred space to create. You can learn more by joining her Facebook group: Well-Rounded Writing Support and Accountability Group..

We talk about the importance of taking action on your dreams today and not waiting for “that thing” to happen to begin. Do it today! It starts with small action and that’s what shows you that your dream is possible. Learn skills today that will help you tomorrow. The only thing impractical about dreams, is if you wait to take action on them.

Here’s your reminder: momentum is contagious. The momentum you build for yourself can be shared with others. Being around a community of people focused on building momentum is powerful and contagious!

Here are three reasons to join our creative sprint on discord:

1. To be in community with people who share your interests
2. You’ll find pieces of yourself and your creativity that’s dormant
3. Explore creativity in a safe space with other people

You can connect with MJ here.

This episode is brought to you by Equanimity Boutique- an online boutique of t-shirts with uplifting messages: Products — Equanimity Boutique. You can find my Amazon author page here: Amazon.com: Katie Moran: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle. Connect with MJ Coppola and our community of creatives: Creativille.