Let's CHAT & grow the CREATIVE GENIUS inside all of us! 💐🌺🌷🌸🌹🌻🌼

Inside ALL of us, there's a Creative Genius who's dying to grow & bask in the sun!

Inside ALL of us, there’s a Creative Genius who’s dying to grow & bask in the sun!

I often ask myself, “Why are you getting in your own way?”

I often tell myself, “It’s imperative that you STOP ignoring your true, Authentic Self!”

And it’s not only me.

I want to scream at the top of my lungs, to absolutely anyone & everyone who’s willing to listen, “The WORLD needs MORE of the real, authentic, & CREATIVE you. Yes, YOU!”

ALL of our minds, bodies, & spirits are dying to grow our creativity!

Don’t believe me?

Then, I dare you to see if this resonates:

It’s a recent Note, written by Kate McBride, a fellow Substacker who writes the Bone Fire Newsletter.

(And can we please admire her handle “@ poutdracula”? As a lover of all things spooky, I just love that ♥️🧛‍♀️!)

But, I digress…back to her Note:

Check out the # of Likes: 421.

Check out the # of Restacks: 53.

Check out the date Kate posted it: August 8, 2025.

Do you get what I’m trying to show you?

Do you see what I’m trying to say?

It’s now August 22, 2025, and this Note is still being commented on, shared, and loved.

By ALL THESE PEOPLE!

Why?

Because we are all STARVING for Creativity!

Me included!

I Liked, Commented, and Shared Kate’s Note, with the following Restack:

Why is this sooo incredibly soothing to me?

The idea that an artist took the time to document the creation of all these colors in such an intricate way, with so much love and care is so amazingly beautiful.

Especially when seen from the perspective of our hectic, relentlessly achievement-obsessed, go-go-go world.

Yet here we see what happens when we slow the fuck down and learn to appreciate beauty.

To see it so clearly we can reproduce it.

To savor each color’s ingredients, like a delicious recipe.

Artists really are blessings to the world.

They bring out the beauty in everything, even color.

Don’t YOU want to experience that kind of devotion to LIFE, in all of its technicolor glory for yourself?

Not as an Onlooker who can only admire art from afar, but as The Artist who gets to freakin’ CREATE it?!

Don’t you want to be The Artist, to feel that creative spark, to embody the experience of creating from your own imagination, and sense that miraculous connection with the deepest parts, buried inside yourself?

I know I do!

When WE are the Artist, we get to express your own Creativity, to give birth to it.

It’s why I do my creative writing, and publish my own science fiction series, The Obsidian Chronicles.

Making art is the glorious embodiment of BEING IN LOVE WITH LIFE itself!

But it takes more than a passing appreciation to make this happen.

It takes devotion.

It takes time.

And it takes more than a fertile mind. It takes so much love and care.

Because…

There are weeds in the dirt, in the muck of our lives.

There’s the doubt, the inner criticism, the imposter syndrome, the plethora of False Evidence Appearing Real — the F.E.A.R.s — that have to be yanked out of our hearts, minds, and emotions until they’re gone from our spiritual soil, so we can allow our uninhibited, Creative Self to pierce through the muck, to grow onwards and upwards, to finally SHINE IN THE SUN!

But, even then, we know the FEARs are gone only temporarily.

Until the next variant of weeds pops up.

Until the other pests descend.

What hope do we have if we try to do this alone?

What hope do we gain if we do it together?

It’s a slow & steady seeding that I plan to plant — to grow not only my single solitary garden, but a worldwide Creative Garden, full of every color imaginable — so full of creativity that it can bloom and blossom in ALL of our hearts.

That’s why I’m devoted to exploring all the different methods for fostering our Creativity.

Yes, I’m willing to look everywhere for anything that can help us to open our minds and broaden the scope of what we think is possible.

I want us to see our creativity so clearly that even the blues are no longer named a simple “blue,” but take on such different hues, tints, and tones, that we can name them by their distinct names, like the Russians have two distinct names for “light blue” and “dark blue.”

Like, the Inuits of the North American Artic have 52 distinct names for all the variations of snow and ice that they can see.

Yes, their sight can teach us.

This is the wisdom I’ve gained, from studying them, culturally:

1. When you change how you see,

what you see changes; and,

2. How you see changes not only who you are,

but who you could choose to become.

Don’t you want that, to have that kind of miraculous transformation, in how you see YOURSELF?

I do.

I want to discover what I am truly capable of.

But that can be scary.

We all know the immense amount of self-doubt we can have.

To create anything brings out the Inner Critic — in fact, mine are so numerous, I call mine “wraiths.”

Do you think I want to battle them alone?

Nope.

Lucky for me, I don’t have to!

And neither do you!

Starting next week, I will be using my CHAT to host a group for Writers, Artists, & Creatives like us, to go deep & unearth our truest, most Authentic Selves.

This will be an on-going, free opportunity for us to come together as a community, to explore ALL the methods we can use to honor our creativity, in a supportive and caring environment.

Let’s learn to see differently, so what we’re capable of seeing can evolve.

It doesn’t have to take years. It can happen in a moment. In a flash of inspiration. In an epiphany.

Having said that, it can also be daunting.

Even with a Growth Mindset.

Even with an open willingness to try.

Because it requires us to sit with ourselves.

To start, we will build a private journaling practice.

The goal is to do this, even imperfectly.

To spew whatever words are forming the thoughts in our minds each and every day.

Like daily brain-dumps.

Sometimes it’ll be uncomfortable. Confronting, even.

Other times, it’ll feel miraculous.

The choice is ours: It can break our spirit. Or break our soul wide open.

The only way we get to find out, is to do the damn work.

This Community’s Built for that.

For support.

For accountability.

For us to cheer each other on, so we keep doing The Work, even…

• When life happens and gets in our way.

• When doubt rears its ugly head and gets in our way.

• When depression, anxiety, and, yes, boredom get in our way.

• When WE get in our own damned way!

These are the times when we must come together as a community to support each other in this most hallowed of practices:

To learn how to see ourselves clearly.

This will develop our creative skills — whether that’s writing, music, art, sculpting, building by hand, or even coding like a computer science engineer — all types of Creativity are welcome and will be celebrated here.

No matter the creative goal we choose to accomplish individually, we can all use this practice to go inward.

To give ourselves time for true reflection. To journal with ourselves. In private. So that we can learn to listen, to hear what our Creative Spirit actually has to say.

Then, when we are ready, we can come to the Chat to share our triumphs, tribulations, and hurdles with each other, in a supportive and welcoming environment.

Just keep in mind, this will NOT be some uber-serious, stuffy exercise.

Yes, there will be deep conversations.

But, I'm also a firm believer in using fun & humor to build sustainable habits, so I propose that we focus on:

• Having fun together;

• Sharing our triumphs;

• Venting from time to time — we're human after all! — and,

• Taking a lighthearted approach to journaling & going on Artist Dates!

With no pressure to perform or pretend to be farther along when we’re not.

• That means sharing drafts, if we’re comfortable.

• Sharing unfinished, imperfect work.

• Whatever we feel we need to share, we can share, to be supported by other Creatives who “get it.”

And, when it’s finally finished, we can share our final Posts, Notes, Music, Art, whatever we’re proud of, so that we can Like, Comment, and/or Restack each others’ work.

This is how we can come together, to grow through our own individual efforts, and feel the support of a kind & supportive Creative Community, too.

If that sounds good to you, then please join us & say hello!

Because No Creative should struggle alone!

It’s just not necessary in this day and age. It’s needless suffering.

And I know how pointless it is, because I’ve suffered in silence for far too long, pretending to be happy when I was really fracturing my Self.

Really. Read my Bio. It’s my manifesto. It screams, “I’m DONE with that!”

I want YOU to be done with suffering solo, too!

Keeping our struggles to ourselves is a huge reason why there’s an epidemic of loneliness, depression, and anxiety in our society — despite our being the most technologically-connected humans in history.

It’s why we’re so addicted to our phones and apps and TV. We’re just numbing ourselves.

Because it’s too fucking sad to know that, deep down, we’re killing our dreams.

Nah! Not me.

I’m determined to try whatever methods I can to grow the Creative Garden of my dreams.

I want YOU to garden alongside me.

So come join us!

We got this!

This is the Creative CHAT for you.

The Creative Gardener in me honors & respects the Creative Gardener in each of you,

Marisa

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Together, we’ll explore all the ways that we can 10x our life — mind, body, & soul.

We’ll learn the scientific, physiological, and psychological reasons why we are the way that we are. And…

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Since I’ve started my Attorney-to-Creative Journey, I’ve learned that you have to be brave to go after your Dreams. But you don’t have to climb the mountain all by yourself. That’s why I’m building my own Mindset & Meditation (M&M) Community, so we can all invest in our truest, most Authentic Self.

I hope you’ll join me, so we can go on this Journey together! I can’t wait to see how much we can learn, grow, and gain!

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The Writer in me honors & respects the Reader in each of you,

Marisa