When You Feel Like You Don’t Belong: Healing From External Validation with Xenia Viray of Myths of Creation
10/23/24 • 55 min
Do you feel like you’re different and don’t belong? Have you had different kinds of jobs or businesses or side hustles and still can’t find a good fit? Do you tend to seek external validation to see if you’re on the “right” path?
In this Moonbeaming episode, host Sarah Faith Gottesdiener invites Xenia Marie Ross Viray, an imagination healer and frequency artist, and they talk about what to do when you don’t feel like you belong, how to create your own language and opportunities, and simply, how to listen to your heart.
This week, you’ll learn:
- The use of imagination as a healing tool for psychological wounds
- Saturn’s supporting role in activating your dreams and creative processes
- Differences between visions and fantasies
- How self-acceptance unlocks all creativity
If you are insecure about not fitting in and want to create your own vision... this episode is for you.
Moonbeaming listeners, save 40% this fall at www.quarto.com/campaign/witchcraft.
About Our Guest
Xenia Marie Ross Viray (she/they) is an imagination healer, frequency artist, and creativity catalyst with a focus on experiential learning containers and writing. She is the eldest of three sisters, and her name means kindness to strangers. Born as a brick-and-mortar fashion business, Myths of Creation is a container for experiments, art, writing, and gatherings at the intersection of creativity, spirituality, and meaning-making. Xenia's offerings are designed to support spirited innovators bring their natural genius into form and include Create Your Cosmology, a course in authentic belief systems, Imaginal Temple, a creative mystical mentorship, the Garden of the Imaginal Substack, and an evolving cornucopia of courses, workshops, and 1:1 sessions which you can find at MythsofCreation.com and @mythsofcreation on IG.
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Do you feel like you’re different and don’t belong? Have you had different kinds of jobs or businesses or side hustles and still can’t find a good fit? Do you tend to seek external validation to see if you’re on the “right” path?
In this Moonbeaming episode, host Sarah Faith Gottesdiener invites Xenia Marie Ross Viray, an imagination healer and frequency artist, and they talk about what to do when you don’t feel like you belong, how to create your own language and opportunities, and simply, how to listen to your heart.
This week, you’ll learn:
- The use of imagination as a healing tool for psychological wounds
- Saturn’s supporting role in activating your dreams and creative processes
- Differences between visions and fantasies
- How self-acceptance unlocks all creativity
If you are insecure about not fitting in and want to create your own vision... this episode is for you.
Moonbeaming listeners, save 40% this fall at www.quarto.com/campaign/witchcraft.
About Our Guest
Xenia Marie Ross Viray (she/they) is an imagination healer, frequency artist, and creativity catalyst with a focus on experiential learning containers and writing. She is the eldest of three sisters, and her name means kindness to strangers. Born as a brick-and-mortar fashion business, Myths of Creation is a container for experiments, art, writing, and gatherings at the intersection of creativity, spirituality, and meaning-making. Xenia's offerings are designed to support spirited innovators bring their natural genius into form and include Create Your Cosmology, a course in authentic belief systems, Imaginal Temple, a creative mystical mentorship, the Garden of the Imaginal Substack, and an evolving cornucopia of courses, workshops, and 1:1 sessions which you can find at MythsofCreation.com and @mythsofcreation on IG.
MOONBEAMING LINKS:
Join the Moon Studio Patreon.
Buy the 2025 Many Moons Lunar Planner.
Subscribe to our newsletter.
Find Sarah on Instagram.
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