Sue Bulmer - Cycles
04/23/24 • 70 min
Sue Bulmer is an artist, educator, Art Psychotherapist and Inspiration Facilitator. Her expressive, energetic and colourful work is inspired by landscape and seasonal alignment. Sue believes we are all creative souls and is a passionate advocate for the well-being benefits of living a more creative life. She has a deep understanding, stemming from personal experience, of the many benefits of living a more creative life and the barriers and beliefs that stop us. We chat about paying attention to when it’s time to rest, confronting the fear that tries to keep you small and safe, being stuck and what happens when you stop fighting it, putting yourself out there even though it can be scary, the payoff is worth it!
Takeaways:
- Make art just for you.
- Nature takes a rest during the year. Why don’t we?
- Categorizing things help us understand things, but they come with rules and those rules can be limiting.
- It’s in the spaces that the ideas come.
- “Stress is caused by being here and wanting to be there.”
- It’s never too late.
Sustain Your Creativity through Autumn & Winter, A free guide from Sue Bulmer
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative, Florence Williams
Environmental Arts Therapy and the Tree of Life, Ian Siddons Heginworth
Rick Rubin on Feel Better Live More
Sue’s Creative Soul Sketchbooks course
Sue Bulmer is an artist, educator, Art Psychotherapist and Inspiration Facilitator. Her expressive, energetic and colourful work is inspired by landscape and seasonal alignment. Sue believes we are all creative souls and is a passionate advocate for the well-being benefits of living a more creative life. She has a deep understanding, stemming from personal experience, of the many benefits of living a more creative life and the barriers and beliefs that stop us. We chat about paying attention to when it’s time to rest, confronting the fear that tries to keep you small and safe, being stuck and what happens when you stop fighting it, putting yourself out there even though it can be scary, the payoff is worth it!
Takeaways:
- Make art just for you.
- Nature takes a rest during the year. Why don’t we?
- Categorizing things help us understand things, but they come with rules and those rules can be limiting.
- It’s in the spaces that the ideas come.
- “Stress is caused by being here and wanting to be there.”
- It’s never too late.
Sustain Your Creativity through Autumn & Winter, A free guide from Sue Bulmer
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative, Florence Williams
Environmental Arts Therapy and the Tree of Life, Ian Siddons Heginworth
Rick Rubin on Feel Better Live More
Sue’s Creative Soul Sketchbooks course
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Key Takeaways:
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- Find the magic in the unknown.
- Allow yourself to be seen so that others can be seen. The more story we know about you the more connected we feel.
- Art is a very self forward profession.
- Find ways to accumulate more moments of joy.
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Key takeaways
- Pay attention and notice when fear needs to be conquered and when it is our intuition giving us a warning.
- Don’t beat yourself up when you find yourself going down the path of thinking you’re not doing enough. But if you try and notice when it happens, those feelings might lessen.
- You don’t have to EARN your rest.
- “We are not meant to understand it all. We are not meant to grasp it. We are meant to make guesses about it.”
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