Tara: Hello, welcome. I'm Tara, and I'm an embodied leadership and creativity guide for sensitive people. I also support authors through the writing and creative process.
My work centers on the idea that our creative power is what becomes available when our bodies feel safe enough to be fully expressed. So I guide people back into relationship with their body, their needs, their internal signals.
Then from that place, that opens you up to a different kind of creativity. One that feels more natural, more aligned, and more true to who you are. And that can ripple out into your life, your work, your own creative expression.
I'm gonna talk a little bit about the wisdom of the body and how deepening into relationship with that will support you creatively. And then the different ways that can show up in your life.
I just wanted to share my own story because I think it just makes it much more tangible and just shows, the journey that I know so many highly sensitive people go on. Firstly coming back to themselves and then opening up to this creative possibility and potential.
Like many highly sensitive people, I was very disconnected from my body, due to the world we live in. The system, the way the world is built, not at all, to deal with highly sensitive people. And I also had a trauma in my life at a very young age.
From there I just started to disconnect from my body, overriding its natural rhythms, its natural signals.
I was working in London for a number of years in a very busy office environment, commuting during rush hour and just found it incredibly overwhelming. All that stimulation, that pressure, holding myself together.
I started numbing, through drinking and eating mostly, but also lots of other habits and addictions and patterns and ways of numbing what I was feeling. Just to be able to cope and live in that kind of an environment.
My body was screaming at me the entire time. I started to get a number of health issues.
I was deeply unhappy and had mental health stuff going on as well, just because the way I was living wasn't sustainable for my body and how I was trying to cope and get through.
My body was really telling me it was time to stop and I had to do something, and so it got to a point where my health issues got so bad, I had to make a change.
Finding small simple self-care acts and ways to reconnect, things like boundaries, movement, what foods worked for my body. I had to stop drinking alcohol, for example.
Yin yoga was so nourishing and supportive. It helped me to find space within.
It was like something unlocked within. The remembering of my creative power, my connection to my intuition, why I'm so sensitive. How numbing everything wasn't the answer, but actually being able to receive so much and see so much and feel so much is a gift.
That's in a nutshell, what I went through.
But I wanna talk to you about how this can really support you.
We don't recognize sensitivity necessarily as a form of intelligence. If you are here, you probably do, and you're very aware of it, that's why you're here. You pick up on the subtle shifts in energy in a room. You know what someone's thinking before they even say it, or you read the undertone of it.
You can sense what's aligned. What's needed for wellbeing to flourish.
The gifts of your sensitivity, these natural things that you are able to pick up on are there for a reason.
But of course, we've had to use our sensitivity for other things. Firstly, we might have numbed and dulled it, as I did. We've used it to cope. Managing everything around us.
And oftentimes, the gifts of our sensitivity have gone towards supporting others rather than what they could be used for.
Ultimately it's about this turning inward and recognizing that some of the things that we feel in our bodies, whilst they can be incredibly impactful, and it's amazing to use 'em for others.
There's some power in actually getting to know it within yourself. Finding that alignment and the wisdom of these gifts within your body, and then how that can then extend into the world.
So it's just becoming more resourced in your awareness of yourself ultimately.
This can show up in very small ways. Recognizing when you need space. When you need to really honor your boundaries.
Rather than just going with the status quo and what everyone else is doing, it's coming back to what supports you to feel good, to nurture your being holistically, so that you start to recognize how good you can feel, and what works for you as a highly sensitive person in your body.
That's the baseline.
Once you have started to establish that it's like that's your power. That's creating your life in a way that works for you and not just going with what the world tells you. That will look different for everyone depending on what your lifestyle's like, your family, whether you have children to care for, et cetera.
Of course that will vary.
But what can you do for you to create a life that feels good in your body?
Listening to its wisdom, it will tell you when you are overdoing it. Sometimes you have to say no to certain things, prioritize other things.
It might be something like you start to move your body every day gently, or you create five minutes in the morning just to breathe.
These small things that you can do to support yourself in your body will start to show you your creative power.
That is your step one, your new baseline. As you start to settle into that, as you start to remember who you are, you get this new relationship with yourself ultimately.
That's when you can start to unlock creative power, which can be used for even more.
So from this new baseline. When you care even more for your body, it's like your intuition it heightens in all the ways. And you are able to read what might want to be created. You can feel into, oh, that would be an amazing idea because you can see a gap in the market or in your business or where you work.
You just have more energy. Capacity to feel into these things, to see these things, and then to bring them into the world. To create them. You realize a relationship that you have with the earth as well, and with living on earth. The more resourced and embodied you are in yourself, the more you can bring that into the world.
And deepening even further, you realize, tuning into the body and receiving guidance, receiving wisdom, receiving ideas, embracing the shadow parts of yourself. Forming such a deep, intimate relationship with all parts of you, which can feed your creativity in so many different ways.
It could feed a creative project, it could feed how you create your life, what you're calling in for yourself.
A lot of my books, and my oracle card deck, were created from actually just tuning into a different part of my body and, connecting to the wisdom there. Maybe gifts from my ancestors.
There are so many ways that we can work with our wisdom of our body when we're just not feeling so burnt out and exhausted by the demands of the world.
But it really starts with coming back to getting to know your body in those small moments, really honoring your gifts as a highly sensitive person. That then becomes a baseline from which it can flourish and grow in all these incredible magical ways.
What that can unfold for you is so powerful.
I hope that's given a brief overview of what your creative power is. The potential of it. When you embody the gifts of who you are as a highly sensitive person.
I have a free gift, which is called Claim Your Creativity.
A creative visibility experience, seven guided visualizations to enter the wisdom of your body. To feel it, and just to start to get to know it from a different perspective.
You can use it to help you to come up with new ideas and creations that come from the body that are totally yours.
There's a link to that and it's called Claim Your Creativity.
Thank you so much for being here, and I hope this supported you in some way.
