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Podcast: Wildly Creative Life with Brooke Schultz
Episode: Creativity in Winter: How to Embrace the Fertile Darkness ep 238
Description: The creative process is often painted as eternal bloom; we see only the polished, finished work in carefully curated highlight reels in an endless scroll. But the incubation and quiet that has to accumulate over a seed before the bloom is just as vital to its growth as the vibrant blossoming. Often, in talking to creators, they say things in winter like, "I'm burnt out", "I don't know what I'm doing anymore" "All my photos are crap" or "I'm just not inspired or motivated." These experiences can feel like a crisis, a shameful problem that requires us t...