September 3, 2025 • 40 mins
After three months of our 12-month creative journey, we’re pausing to celebrate the progress, the setbacks, and the surprising growth along the way. In this conversation, we open up about the fears that almost kept us from starting, the personal healing that’s already happening, and why even imperfect steps matter. From journaling breakthroughs to watercolor discoveries, we’re learning that creativity isn’t just about making—it’s about becoming. Join us as we share lessons from the first quarter and set intentions for the next.
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SPEAKER_01 (00:03):
Welcome to the Art Peace Experiment.
We're your hosts, two artistsand friends.
I'm Tasha.
And I'm Brianna.
At the end of 2024, we decidedwe wanted to cultivate more
safety, peace, love, alignment,and excitement through our art
and our art practices.
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So here we are sharing ourjourney with you.
And we're so excited you'rehere.
We hope you enjoy ourconversations.
They're honest, raw, just justtwo friends talking to each
other about the realities oflife and creativity.
We're so excited for you to joinus and be along with us for the
journey.
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First quarter check-in.
We made it three months into theart piece experiment.
We did it.
Way to go.
Yay.
I feel like celebrating.
How are you feeling?
How has it gone for you?
I want to hear, I want to hearall about it.
It's gone really well.
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You know, I was thinking aboutit earlier this morning and I
was thinking this, I mean, notto get too personal, but this
like time of life for me isreally really difficult and we
started the experiment at thesame time that all the difficult
started right and so it's beenreally interesting because the
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the experiment has really hasreally helped it's been like
really hard but then also reallyamazing with the experiment and
yeah those two going on at thesame time and so it's it's been
I guess kind of like a testamentto me that you you know, like
reinforced to me that ourcreativity and tapping into that
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part of ourselves is soimportant and it makes such a
huge difference.
No matter like what we're goingthrough, it is so important and
it just, it really, reallyhelps.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So we have the three phases,right?
Create, align, and connect.
The three phases, rhythms, partsof the experiment.
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Yeah.
Really wanted to design it tojust work together and to get
really intentional about lettingit be a boost or yeah something
grounding or yeah like workingwith our natural flows of life
and not against it not to addanything extra you know but to
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be a source of a source of likerelease and and flow and and
peace and connection withyourself and with others and to
be a help in life and notanother task.
Right, right.
It's interesting because I lookback at the– I mean, the art
(03:00):
that I created in the past andthe growth, like the emotional
growth and healing andeverything that I've had, you
know, through, you know, thetime of creating those pieces
and the impact that it had.
And like, it definitely helped.
Like it was definitely asupport, but then what a
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difference it's made with reallyusing it intentionally.
Yeah.
I think, Yeah.
I was kind of journaling aboutthis yesterday and I think, you
know, we were doing thisintuitively a little bit just
because we could feel that itwas, you know, we were feeling
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drawn to it.
We were feeling drawn tocreation and, and, and, you
know, that was something that weneeded, but it really has made a
huge difference with doing itwith the intentionality, like
you said, and doing it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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Like it doesn't happen everytime for me, but that's the
goal.
That's what we're trying for.
And so aiming for that and goinginto creating with that
intentional practice.
And then also, you know,throughout the days, if even if
I'm not creating, having thatmindset of wanting to check in
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with myself and wanting to dothings that help me feel better.
Right.
And help me feel connected tomyself.
And, and to others like that'sbeen huge.
It's been so impactful.
Right.
Yeah.
I mean, I was just, I've beenthinking about it.
I mean, as we're leading up tothe quarter check-in, I've been
really like just taking time toponder about it and, and, you
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know, throughout this whole, youknow, three months through this
process, we just realized like,I don't know how, Yeah, all of
the things.
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there is something reallyencouraging and special about
having a friend.
Yeah.
Like cheer me on and be like,no, you're amazing.
You could totally do this.
And like, it's something you'vebeen wanting to do and just
having that nurturing andsupport.
Yeah.
Was amazing.
really impactful and really madea huge difference.
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And having that built in to thisexperiment helped me be brave.
Yes.
I love that.
Yeah.
Which is really cool.
And then another layer on top ofthat, I needed that gentle
support to get started.
Yeah.
Right.
But then what really helped keepme going, I took the first
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little steps of actually doingit.
And then I had that kind ofreward of like oh my gosh you're
amazing you did so good this iswonderful from you and then on
top of that with the journalingand realizing just a deeper
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layer and connection to myselfbecause I've been letting myself
just draw what I want to drawand what I feel like interested
in, connected in or connectedto.
And then, um, would sit downand, you know, pick, pick a
sketch.
Like I would just have a coupleready to go and then pick a
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sketch on one of my paintingdays and, and get to work on it.
And then I would, you know, lookup the symbolism of what I was
painting and the why and, um andlike why I like combined certain
elements together and realizedjust how on top of it my
intuition was of like oh this isactually a story of what I'm
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personally going through rightnow yeah and it was like oh this
is cool like it felt like
SPEAKER_03 (07:52):
magic yeah
SPEAKER_01 (07:54):
I think that was cool and that was just another
layer of it um like wanting tokeep going Yeah, because it did
it did feel like a little bit ofmagic.
(08:17):
Like, yeah, it was reallyinteresting.
in that moment, right?
Right.
It's powerful.
And I think we all have thatability.
We all have that inside of usbecause we all have intuition,
(08:40):
right?
Right.
Our bodies and our subconsciousand like we know what we need
even if we can't consciouslytell what we need in the moment,
right?
Right.
But if we lean into those littlefeelings and those little
whispers of, you know, of ourintuition, then it like it
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always leads leads us to theright place it always leads us
into more alignment withourselves
SPEAKER_00 (09:07):
mm-hmm
SPEAKER_01 (09:09):
mm-hmm and I think that's what this experiment is
really showing us you knowpersonally like it's yeah it's
it's been really great in thatway already and it's only three
months so it's only I know itfeels like it went by so quickly
you know it feels like we juststarted when we first started it
felt like we would never gethere it was like will we will we
(09:31):
keep showing up for ourselvesyeah will we keep showing up for
each other right well you knowlike there was a there was a lot
of a lot of doubt you're indoubt yeah I think for both of
us yeah I mean part of it isbecause that we were like trying
to you know not show each otherright it's like yeah of course
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we're gonna do this but you knowI mean life like you said there
are different behind the sceneslike things going on that it's
like can we handle at all.
Yeah.
Can we, like, can I keep showingup for myself?
Can we add this to the list ofthings to do?
Right.
And on top of our load already.
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But the crazy thing is it hasn'treally felt like, I mean, some
days it has, I guess, but likewhen we're, when, okay, I'll
speak for myself.
When I have been in that placeof, I'm just going to let go and
do this.
It has not felt Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
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week to week getting togetherand do this.
And I feel like this part of itwas just another layer of like,
this is scary and this is hard.
And we do this, let alone showup for the art every week.
You know, can we, can we show upthis way?
And I'm really proud of us.
I am too.
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I mean, it's, it's cool becauseboth of us are very, quiet
introverted and shy yesintroverted you know get us out
into the public into the wildworld and you know I'm kind of a
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wallflower and kind of likebehind the scenes you know like
get together with a group ofpeople and I'm just going to
listen to the conversationrather than really add to it and
like a year ago if someone toldme that I would be working on
recording a podcast I'd be likethat is the most ridiculous
thing I have ever heard I wouldnever do that that's too scary
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yeah that's just ridiculous notsomething I would ever feel
comfortable with yeah and I knowyou're the same way same so I
like I don't know I think it'scool that we're like you know
what our voice matters yeah andwhat we have to say and what we
think and and all of that likeLike it has its place.
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Yeah.
And we believe so deeply inthis.
Yeah.
That we're going to show up eventhough we're a little scared,
you know, like through the fear.
Through the fear.
And through the doubts,self-doubts and all of it.
And I think that's reallystrengthened as we, you know,
through the doing, right?
That's where confidence comes isthrough the doing and showing
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up.
And showing up scared anyways.
Yeah.
And then I feel like givingourselves that permission to,
um, that was, that was whathappened.
Like we gave ourselves thatpermission and we're like, you
know what, we're just going todo it and we're going to do it
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messy and imperfectly andscared, but we're going to try
and let, let go and just havefun with it.
Yeah.
And it has been fun.
Yeah.
And it really has.
And, and it's great.
Yeah.
That's been, that's been fun.
Yeah.
So any other revelations orinteresting things happened with
you know creating or like tellme a little bit more about the I
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guess maybe just like the actualart making yeah tell me more
about how that's that's kind ofimpacted you yeah so I I haven't
been as consistent as I waswanting to be with the actual
art making just because ofwhat's going on but I Mm-hmm.
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Right.
Right.
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I think frozen with fear ofeverybody else's perceptions,
right?
Total people pleaser over here.
Yeah.
That's hard.
It's hard to get through.
And so there's been a lot oflike internal work happening,
right?
Yes.
But with the art making, yeah, Ihave definitely been trying to
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be intentional and not worryabout what other people might
think
SPEAKER_00 (15:17):
about it
SPEAKER_01 (15:17):
and just do the things that I feel really drawn
to and that light me up.
up and that I'm delighted with.
SPEAKER_00 (15:23):
Yeah.
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (15:24):
And so following that, that delight, following my
intuition, leaning into what Ifeel drawn to, like those are my
main goals with all of this andwith the art making.
And it's been so much morejoyful and so much more freeing
when I actually do sit, youknow, have the time to sit down
and create and, or make the timeI, I should say, but yeah, yeah,
(15:47):
it's been, it's been reallygood.
Oh, good.
I love that.
I love, I'm so glad that sharedthat thanks because it's so
relatable especially you knowstarting out because that's a
lot of what this is is gettingpast the limitations and the
blocks and the you know gettingto the root of why is it so hard
(16:10):
to show up for the things thatexciting and fun to me yeah you
know like why is it hard to showup for something that is that
brings me joy yeah um and youknow a lot of this is about that
um you know rewiring the nervoussystem and yeah and and being
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able to cultivate that safetyand a lot of it is in that those
like mindset blocks and thosethere's a lot of I mean, it's
kind of, it's often small, likesmall trauma is what they call
(17:05):
it, right?
Yeah.
But just...
add up and getting past that ishuge.
And it's a constant, a constantwork in progress.
(17:26):
Yeah.
You know, I was actuallyjournaling.
This was what I was journalingabout yesterday, which is so
funny, but I, I was reflectingon that a lot and where I was
like seven years ago, you know,when I really first started
this, this journey of comingback to Myself, I guess, and,
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and connecting with my creativeside.
And I was writing about, I waswriting about the nervous system
and, and those limiting beliefsand how important it is to like
how we are wired for connectionwith,
SPEAKER_00 (18:09):
with
SPEAKER_01 (18:09):
people.
And so any sort of rejection ofthe things that we like or
things that we resonate with,it, it feels like a rejection of
ourselves, right?
Of us.
And because when we, when weconnect with something, when we
love something, when we resonatewith something, it's kind of a
reflection of our soul, like ofus, you know, our inner world,
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our inner workings and, and whatmakes us unique and what makes
us us, right?
Ourselves.
And so when, when that isrejected or somebody doesn't
like it, or, you know, just notcelebrated.
Yeah, exactly.
Then it, it can Right.
Right.
(18:54):
Right.
(19:17):
walls come up and um so often uhif we've had that often enough
right if that has happenedthat's what we learned that's
our new our new way of offunctioning and you know right
and it's not always a consciousexactly either it's just what
lives in your body yeah and sothat's why so often i mean this
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happened for me you know i wouldlook at something that i felt
drawn to that i really youreally did want to do like
making art you know likepainting and I'd be like oh but
that's for somebody else or oh Ican't do that it would just be
an automatic you know automaticimmediate shutdown
SPEAKER_00 (20:01):
with some
SPEAKER_01 (20:02):
excuse limiting or sometimes even it would be like
resentment you know yeah or it'dbe like oh that's for this kind
of person and I'm not you knowlike jealousy right exactly and
so So it's been reallyinteresting going through this,
(20:22):
you know, years, these pastyears of slow, slow, slow
progress
SPEAKER_00 (20:29):
and
SPEAKER_01 (20:29):
baby steps towards where I am now with recognizing
this because it's hard torecognize.
Yeah.
like really build in that safetythat we haven't had before.
(20:53):
Yeah.
And it's taking that time to belike, I am gifting this to
myself because I am worthy of itand I deserve it.
And, you know, the world needsthe best version of me, you
know, and my daughter needs thebest version of me.
And I, I deserve to be able toshow up for myself that way too.
(21:18):
Yeah.
And you know, I'm talking aboutthis as like I and me, but
anybody.
Yeah.
Like you listening to this, theworld deserves, you know, the
best version of you and youdeserve the best version of you.
Yeah.
This was something that I wroteyesterday and I'm, you know,
paraphrasing from memory, butit, when we tap into our
creativity, that is when we areour fullest self and our fullest
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self is our best self.
Right.
And so it's, it's more than justpicking up a paintbrush or, you
know, getting out your old tapshoes or, you know, it's more
than the thing that you'redoing.
Yeah.
It's the becoming.
Yeah.
Right.
It's the way you're bringing toit.
Exactly.
Yeah, exactly.
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I love that.
Yeah.
I, it's, it's interesting causeI, um, Through this process, I
really wanted to open myself upto this, like, limitless energy.
And just, like, I don't want tohold myself back in fear
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anymore.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
(23:02):
of like, oh, maybe I can dothis.
Yeah, something you've beenwanting to for a long time and
looking at from far away.
And like admiring from, yeah, inthe distance and like admiring
other artists who could.
Yeah.
You know, and then just beinglike, oh, but I can't.
I'm like, no, no more of that.
No more, like there's a reasonI'm drawn to this.
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You know, like it seems fun.
It seems interesting and cool tome.
There's a spider on my wall andI just keep looking.
looking at it like oh okay sorryspeaking of fear oh my gosh
really being so brave test herethank you it's luckily a little
one yeah if it was a big one wemight have to pause take it take
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care of it oh my gosh that's sofunny uh yeah so anyways showing
up showing up with that likelimitless energy of you know I
and it just it takes just Yeah,right.
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I think is beautiful and what Iget excited about seeing and
what I want, you know, in myhome and, and then, you know,
talking about the things thatare important to me and, you
know, just showing up in all ofthese different ways.
And then what's reallyinteresting that happened is
through this process, I had thisexperience, which again is very
personal.
(24:52):
I'm not going to share exactlywhat happened,
SPEAKER_00 (24:54):
but
SPEAKER_01 (24:55):
the idea of it.
is you know working on thisprocess I had a a memory and
like realization come to me oflike a past trauma that I had
completely suppressed yeah anddidn't even like realize and so
I've been able to start workingthrough that and it's something
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that I didn't consciouslyrealize and yet it's been
holding me back in reallysignificant ways for years and
years and like it It's been sopowerful to be able to actually
start.
releasing that and healing fromit and working through it.
And it's going to be a process.
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It's going to take some time,but just having that start
because I gave myself thepermission of, you know what?
I'm strong and I'm capable and Ican handle the scary things and
I can grow and I'm ready to, youknow, it's just, ah, I love
that.
That is powerful.
(25:56):
Right.
And who would have thought justfrom sitting down and painting
every week that it can have thatYeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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Yeah, that is, that's amazing.
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And, um, I have not wanted to doit, you know, I'll sit down and
it's like, Ooh, but, um, butyesterday, like the last couple
of weeks, it's been, it's beenwarming up, right.
As we've been using our voicesin this way in the podcast and
we've been talking more and Idon't know, just like through
the process.
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Um, then yesterday I was able tofinally sit down and I wrote
like five pages.
What?
Yeah.
It felt like that release.
And so it's, yeah, like yousaid, it's a process, right?
It's a process.
It's not all at once and we'renot going to get it just because
we have the idea or the goal tobe here where, you know, it's
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going to take practice and it'sgoing to take time, which is
absolutely fine.
You know, that's absolutely theway that it's supposed to be.
Yeah.
Because if we just like had thethought, Hmm, I want to be this
way.
And then we were that way.
Right.
Right.
It would just, that's notrealistic.
no it's not I mean we had theidea for this back in November
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right right and it's May now andwe're like okay you know kick
off the year the new yearrunning like we're gonna start
January 1st this is gonna be athing and then it came to
January 1st and we were notready yeah like it took some
prep work to just be likegetting to the place of showing
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up yeah to be able to do thisinternally yeah internal prep
work yeah so we didn't end upstarting in Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
(28:51):
get to a place that we reallygot started yeah right um yeah
and how sad would it have beenif it's like well i didn't start
on this like self-imposeddeadline and i didn't get going
and like you know it's so easyat least past me it would have
been like oh i'm a failure yeahlike oh it's not like i just i
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can't stick to my goals i can'tyou know i would remember it us
being like oh no we didn't do ityou know and we're like taking
so long but really I mean threethree months from conception to
starting that's not that's notit's really you know like when
you look back it's like ohactually it's not that big of a
deal right yeah yeah I mean Ifeel like so often yeah in the
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moment we're like oh no you knowwe missed the week oh no we
missed and now you know we'rethree months into it we haven't
shared anything on social mediaright you know but it's it
really is that matter of okaywe're taking it one thing at a
time right like okay we startstarted actually creating the
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like we we took those like prepmonths of what what really do we
want this to be and can we beshowing up you know to create
the art and can we journal andlike yeah it took some time to
figure out for us yeah and toget a little more clarity on
what this thing was to be yeahwhat do we want to do to do with
it yeah because we knew wewanted to do an art um like
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challenge basically and we kindof had that goal of We didn't
really have the consciousthought and clarity of wanting
to build safety in the artpractice.
It was one of those things thatit was inside of us, and that
was where our intuition wasleading us.
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That was the core of it.
But it wasn't conscious yet.
Yeah, it took some time to–Yeah, it took some time to get
there.
And then when we got there, itwas more settled of like, oh,
this is what we're doing.
This is what we're wanting.
Exactly.
But again, clarity andconfidence only came by doing,
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by taking steps.
And we're going towards it,right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because I mean, we say weofficially started the last week
of February, but throughJanuary, we weren't necessarily
showing up consistently week toweek.
But we were starting thatprocess of showing up, getting
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together.
Yeah.
Do the things that we said wewere going to do.
Yeah.
It's like I had built up alittle bit of the, you know,
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just like a little bit of thatresilience, a little bit of that
courage.
And it was like, okay, I'm goingto actually like, you know,
break out the nice paper.
Yeah.
This week.
But it wasn't, it would beunfair to say that we just
started from scratch that week.
Yeah.
Because I don't think that's,well, I guess that's not how I
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operate.
Yeah, no.
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Right.
That's essential.
You can't skip that part.
every week we did show up forourselves in some way towards
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this goal.
And now looking back at it all,it's like, wow, look at what we
did.
Look at what we did.
And, and just how I feel aboutmyself.
Yeah.
Complete change in the pastthree months.
That's really the most likeimportant part of this.
It's not about what we did.
Right.
It's about how we have changedas people.
SPEAKER_00 (33:25):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (33:26):
As individuals and how we've grown because we're,
we're going to That's what itis.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So interesting.
And I, I, the thing that Ididn't do very much of was the
journaling.
Yeah.
I did some of it.
Well, good.
I'm glad that makes me feelvalidated.
Yeah.
Like I, I didn't show up like ahundred percent.
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I didn't create art every weekand journal every week.
And we did show up for therecording every week.
We did.
Well, actually not even thatbecause we had some weeks where
we didn't, and then we like madeup, you know, some, some
episodes.
We made her work with the crazyschedules.
But even then, you know, it waslike, it wasn't every Friday,
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you know, at this, likesometimes life just doesn't
always work on schedule andthat's okay.
And that's, that's what thewhole thing about this is, is
how do we, how do we still showup amidst craziness and life and
imperfection and, and still moveforward.
Right.
In the direction that we want togo.
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Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (34:29):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (34:30):
It's flexibility.
Right.
Resiliency and just.
Yeah.
And gumption, that was the wordthat came to mind.
Gumption, yeah.
Well, it's interesting.
Continuing, you know, keepgoing.
Yeah, I didn't journal everyweek, but I did have that
introspection every week.
Partially because I felt alittle forced to because we were
going to get together and talkabout it.
Yeah, yeah, same.
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I was like, oh, I have to havesomething interesting to say to
Brianna when she comes over.
I got to think about what'shappening.
But that's been helpful.
It has, yeah.
No, I didn't actually put pen topaper.
There were some times where itwas a little overwhelming.
It was like, oh.
no but it actually ended upbeing really helpful and really
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good yeah just really reallypositive yeah okay so second
quarter the next three months isthere anything you're hoping to
do differently or I don't reallywant to say better but like show
up more of in certain ways yeahsaying that like what are you
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what are you hoping for what doyou I mean we are going into
summer for us yeah we're goinginto summer so I think the main
hope for me is to just keep keepgoing you know like stay on the
course that I have been on yeahand keep showing up um and just
looking for the spider sorry Ihad to check it was it was over
(35:53):
me and like I asked you aquestion and then I'm like wait
where is it it's fine we're okayuh yeah no it's okay so keep
keep showing up that's that's mymain goal Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Same here.
Same here.
And I'm hoping to get mydaughter involved.
Yeah.
I was just going to say that.
I was like– and, you know, itwould be really, really good to
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kind of, you know, involve mypeople, right?
Like the people that I'm with.
So if you don't have kids, youknow, that's okay.
Like– maybe if it feels safe andif you want to incorporating
the, the people that you arearound and that you love and
into what you, into what you'redoing and what lights you up,
(36:36):
that's, I think that there'spower in that, especially if
they're, when they're a safeperson.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (36:43):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (36:44):
So, but yeah, incorporating, figuring out how
to incorporate it with, withparenting time and, you know,
like parent being, you know,Right.
Yeah.
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our full self.
Yeah, and shifting away fromthat checklist mentality and
just...
to the present yeah yeah I lovethat I guess one of my goals on
top of that which I love is I dowant to try to journal a little
bit more yeah because I didnotice a difference when I when
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I actually you know sat down andworked on that yeah I've been
thinking a lot about the artistway by Julia Beck I believe is
her name I forget her name but Iknow what you're talking about
it's Julia Julia something Ialways want to say Julia Child
and I'm like she's not that'swrong Julia but yeah Julia Beck
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anyways I've been thinking a lotabout that because I read that
like seven years ago
SPEAKER_00 (38:15):
at the beginning
SPEAKER_01 (38:15):
of my journey and I'm wanting to revisit it again
now in this mindset yeah and shetalks about doing morning pages
which is journaling first thingin the morning and just like
getting it out the timingdoesn't always that doesn't work
for me and so But I still wantto kind of incorporate that idea
(38:39):
and journal and just like braindump, get it out, right?
I think I'm feeling more readyto release some of that.
Yay, I'm so happy for you.
That's exciting.
Thank you.
I mean, I know that's a bigdeal.
It is.
Yeah, it's been hard.
I'm so glad.
I'm so glad that this hasactually been helpful for both
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of us.
Me too.
It would have been kind ofdisappointing if it was like,
Never mind.
Maybe this wasn't a good idea.
No, this has actually madeprofound differences and impact.
More than we even thought itwould or realized that it could.
So cool.
So cool.
We're excited to keep going andwe're excited that you're
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joining us and here along thejourney.
We love having you here.
We love having more community.
I mean, we haven't even sharedanything yet.
So we're just hoping thatthere's gonna be somebody
listening and there's somecommunity here yeah maybe it's
our three month marker threemonths to prep to start it three
months to do it and then threemonths to share I don't know I
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guess we'll start sharing soonthat's the big goal though is to
actually start sharingconsistently yeah yeah so stay
tuned we're gonna start sharing
SPEAKER_03 (39:53):
yeah
SPEAKER_01 (39:54):
you're listening to this we've done it we we did it
yay so if you haven't alreadymake sure you subscribe so you
can keep hearing ourconversations and follow along
our journey and we want tocelebrate you too that's right
and and we'll see you next timethat's it for today friend
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thanks for spending this timewith us we hope you're leaving
with a little more light alittle more peace and maybe even
a nudge to go be creative justbecause it brings a little more
joy to your life if anything inthis episode spoke to your heart
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encouragement too.
And remember your creativitymatters.
Your voice matters.
You matter.
We're cheering you on alwaysuntil next time.
Keep making, keep softening andkeep showing up as your whole
beautiful self.
Welcome to the Art Peace Experiment.
We're your hosts, two artistsand friends.
I'm Tasha.
And I'm Brianna.
At the end of 2024, we decidedwe wanted to cultivate more
safety, peace, love, alignment,and excitement through our art
and our art practices.
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So here we are sharing ourjourney with you.
And we're so excited you'rehere.
We hope you enjoy ourconversations.
They're honest, raw, just justtwo friends talking to each
other about the realities oflife and creativity.
We're so excited for you to joinus and be along with us for the
journey.
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First quarter check-in.
We made it three months into theart piece experiment.
We did it.
Way to go.
Yay.
I feel like celebrating.
How are you feeling?
How has it gone for you?
I want to hear, I want to hearall about it.
It's gone really well.
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You know, I was thinking aboutit earlier this morning and I
was thinking this, I mean, notto get too personal, but this
like time of life for me isreally really difficult and we
started the experiment at thesame time that all the difficult
started right and so it's beenreally interesting because the
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the experiment has really hasreally helped it's been like
really hard but then also reallyamazing with the experiment and
yeah those two going on at thesame time and so it's it's been
I guess kind of like a testamentto me that you you know, like
reinforced to me that ourcreativity and tapping into that
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part of ourselves is soimportant and it makes such a
huge difference.
No matter like what we're goingthrough, it is so important and
it just, it really, reallyhelps.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So we have the three phases,right?
Create, align, and connect.
The three phases, rhythms, partsof the experiment.
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Yeah.
Really wanted to design it tojust work together and to get
really intentional about lettingit be a boost or yeah something
grounding or yeah like workingwith our natural flows of life
and not against it not to addanything extra you know but to
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be a source of a source of likerelease and and flow and and
peace and connection withyourself and with others and to
be a help in life and notanother task.
Right, right.
It's interesting because I lookback at the– I mean, the art
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that I created in the past andthe growth, like the emotional
growth and healing andeverything that I've had, you
know, through, you know, thetime of creating those pieces
and the impact that it had.
And like, it definitely helped.
Like it was definitely asupport, but then what a
(03:22):
difference it's made with reallyusing it intentionally.
Yeah.
I think, Yeah.
I was kind of journaling aboutthis yesterday and I think, you
know, we were doing thisintuitively a little bit just
because we could feel that itwas, you know, we were feeling
(03:42):
drawn to it.
We were feeling drawn tocreation and, and, and, you
know, that was something that weneeded, but it really has made a
huge difference with doing itwith the intentionality, like
you said, and doing it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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Like it doesn't happen everytime for me, but that's the
goal.
That's what we're trying for.
And so aiming for that and goinginto creating with that
intentional practice.
And then also, you know,throughout the days, if even if
I'm not creating, having thatmindset of wanting to check in
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with myself and wanting to dothings that help me feel better.
Right.
And help me feel connected tomyself.
And, and to others like that'sbeen huge.
It's been so impactful.
Right.
Yeah.
I mean, I was just, I've beenthinking about it.
I mean, as we're leading up tothe quarter check-in, I've been
really like just taking time toponder about it and, and, you
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know, throughout this whole, youknow, three months through this
process, we just realized like,I don't know how, Yeah, all of
the things.
(05:54):
there is something reallyencouraging and special about
having a friend.
Yeah.
Like cheer me on and be like,no, you're amazing.
You could totally do this.
And like, it's something you'vebeen wanting to do and just
having that nurturing andsupport.
Yeah.
Was amazing.
really impactful and really madea huge difference.
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And having that built in to thisexperiment helped me be brave.
Yes.
I love that.
Yeah.
Which is really cool.
And then another layer on top ofthat, I needed that gentle
support to get started.
Yeah.
Right.
But then what really helped keepme going, I took the first
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little steps of actually doingit.
And then I had that kind ofreward of like oh my gosh you're
amazing you did so good this iswonderful from you and then on
top of that with the journalingand realizing just a deeper
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layer and connection to myselfbecause I've been letting myself
just draw what I want to drawand what I feel like interested
in, connected in or connectedto.
And then, um, would sit downand, you know, pick, pick a
sketch.
Like I would just have a coupleready to go and then pick a
(07:23):
sketch on one of my paintingdays and, and get to work on it.
And then I would, you know, lookup the symbolism of what I was
painting and the why and, um andlike why I like combined certain
elements together and realizedjust how on top of it my
intuition was of like oh this isactually a story of what I'm
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personally going through rightnow yeah and it was like oh this
is cool like it felt like
SPEAKER_03 (07:52):
magic yeah
SPEAKER_01 (07:54):
I think that was cool and that was just another
layer of it um like wanting tokeep going Yeah, because it did
it did feel like a little bit ofmagic.
(08:17):
Like, yeah, it was reallyinteresting.
in that moment, right?
Right.
It's powerful.
And I think we all have thatability.
We all have that inside of usbecause we all have intuition,
(08:40):
right?
Right.
Our bodies and our subconsciousand like we know what we need
even if we can't consciouslytell what we need in the moment,
right?
Right.
But if we lean into those littlefeelings and those little
whispers of, you know, of ourintuition, then it like it
(09:00):
always leads leads us to theright place it always leads us
into more alignment withourselves
SPEAKER_00 (09:07):
mm-hmm
SPEAKER_01 (09:09):
mm-hmm and I think that's what this experiment is
really showing us you knowpersonally like it's yeah it's
it's been really great in thatway already and it's only three
months so it's only I know itfeels like it went by so quickly
you know it feels like we juststarted when we first started it
felt like we would never gethere it was like will we will we
(09:31):
keep showing up for ourselvesyeah will we keep showing up for
each other right well you knowlike there was a there was a lot
of a lot of doubt you're indoubt yeah I think for both of
us yeah I mean part of it isbecause that we were like trying
to you know not show each otherright it's like yeah of course
(09:51):
we're gonna do this but you knowI mean life like you said there
are different behind the sceneslike things going on that it's
like can we handle at all.
Yeah.
Can we, like, can I keep showingup for myself?
Can we add this to the list ofthings to do?
Right.
And on top of our load already.
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But the crazy thing is it hasn'treally felt like, I mean, some
days it has, I guess, but likewhen we're, when, okay, I'll
speak for myself.
When I have been in that placeof, I'm just going to let go and
do this.
It has not felt Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
(10:34):
Yeah.
Yeah.
(11:01):
week to week getting togetherand do this.
And I feel like this part of itwas just another layer of like,
this is scary and this is hard.
And we do this, let alone showup for the art every week.
You know, can we, can we show upthis way?
And I'm really proud of us.
I am too.
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I mean, it's, it's cool becauseboth of us are very, quiet
introverted and shy yesintroverted you know get us out
into the public into the wildworld and you know I'm kind of a
(11:43):
wallflower and kind of likebehind the scenes you know like
get together with a group ofpeople and I'm just going to
listen to the conversationrather than really add to it and
like a year ago if someone toldme that I would be working on
recording a podcast I'd be likethat is the most ridiculous
thing I have ever heard I wouldnever do that that's too scary
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yeah that's just ridiculous notsomething I would ever feel
comfortable with yeah and I knowyou're the same way same so I
like I don't know I think it'scool that we're like you know
what our voice matters yeah andwhat we have to say and what we
think and and all of that likeLike it has its place.
(12:31):
Yeah.
And we believe so deeply inthis.
Yeah.
That we're going to show up eventhough we're a little scared,
you know, like through the fear.
Through the fear.
And through the doubts,self-doubts and all of it.
And I think that's reallystrengthened as we, you know,
through the doing, right?
That's where confidence comes isthrough the doing and showing
(12:54):
up.
And showing up scared anyways.
Yeah.
And then I feel like givingourselves that permission to,
um, that was, that was whathappened.
Like we gave ourselves thatpermission and we're like, you
know what, we're just going todo it and we're going to do it
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messy and imperfectly andscared, but we're going to try
and let, let go and just havefun with it.
Yeah.
And it has been fun.
Yeah.
And it really has.
And, and it's great.
Yeah.
That's been, that's been fun.
Yeah.
So any other revelations orinteresting things happened with
you know creating or like tellme a little bit more about the I
(13:40):
guess maybe just like the actualart making yeah tell me more
about how that's that's kind ofimpacted you yeah so I I haven't
been as consistent as I waswanting to be with the actual
art making just because ofwhat's going on but I Mm-hmm.
(14:31):
Right.
Right.
(14:51):
I think frozen with fear ofeverybody else's perceptions,
right?
Total people pleaser over here.
Yeah.
That's hard.
It's hard to get through.
And so there's been a lot oflike internal work happening,
right?
Yes.
But with the art making, yeah, Ihave definitely been trying to
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be intentional and not worryabout what other people might
think
SPEAKER_00 (15:17):
about it
SPEAKER_01 (15:17):
and just do the things that I feel really drawn
to and that light me up.
up and that I'm delighted with.
SPEAKER_00 (15:23):
Yeah.
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (15:24):
And so following that, that delight, following my
intuition, leaning into what Ifeel drawn to, like those are my
main goals with all of this andwith the art making.
And it's been so much morejoyful and so much more freeing
when I actually do sit, youknow, have the time to sit down
and create and, or make the timeI, I should say, but yeah, yeah,
(15:47):
it's been, it's been reallygood.
Oh, good.
I love that.
I love, I'm so glad that sharedthat thanks because it's so
relatable especially you knowstarting out because that's a
lot of what this is is gettingpast the limitations and the
blocks and the you know gettingto the root of why is it so hard
(16:10):
to show up for the things thatexciting and fun to me yeah you
know like why is it hard to showup for something that is that
brings me joy yeah um and youknow a lot of this is about that
um you know rewiring the nervoussystem and yeah and and being
(16:33):
able to cultivate that safetyand a lot of it is in that those
like mindset blocks and thosethere's a lot of I mean, it's
kind of, it's often small, likesmall trauma is what they call
(17:05):
it, right?
Yeah.
But just...
add up and getting past that ishuge.
And it's a constant, a constantwork in progress.
(17:26):
Yeah.
You know, I was actuallyjournaling.
This was what I was journalingabout yesterday, which is so
funny, but I, I was reflectingon that a lot and where I was
like seven years ago, you know,when I really first started
this, this journey of comingback to Myself, I guess, and,
(17:49):
and connecting with my creativeside.
And I was writing about, I waswriting about the nervous system
and, and those limiting beliefsand how important it is to like
how we are wired for connectionwith,
SPEAKER_00 (18:09):
with
SPEAKER_01 (18:09):
people.
And so any sort of rejection ofthe things that we like or
things that we resonate with,it, it feels like a rejection of
ourselves, right?
Of us.
And because when we, when weconnect with something, when we
love something, when we resonatewith something, it's kind of a
reflection of our soul, like ofus, you know, our inner world,
(18:32):
our inner workings and, and whatmakes us unique and what makes
us us, right?
Ourselves.
And so when, when that isrejected or somebody doesn't
like it, or, you know, just notcelebrated.
Yeah, exactly.
Then it, it can Right.
Right.
(18:54):
Right.
(19:17):
walls come up and um so often uhif we've had that often enough
right if that has happenedthat's what we learned that's
our new our new way of offunctioning and you know right
and it's not always a consciousexactly either it's just what
lives in your body yeah and sothat's why so often i mean this
(19:42):
happened for me you know i wouldlook at something that i felt
drawn to that i really youreally did want to do like
making art you know likepainting and I'd be like oh but
that's for somebody else or oh Ican't do that it would just be
an automatic you know automaticimmediate shutdown
SPEAKER_00 (20:01):
with some
SPEAKER_01 (20:02):
excuse limiting or sometimes even it would be like
resentment you know yeah or it'dbe like oh that's for this kind
of person and I'm not you knowlike jealousy right exactly and
so So it's been reallyinteresting going through this,
(20:22):
you know, years, these pastyears of slow, slow, slow
progress
SPEAKER_00 (20:29):
and
SPEAKER_01 (20:29):
baby steps towards where I am now with recognizing
this because it's hard torecognize.
Yeah.
like really build in that safetythat we haven't had before.
(20:53):
Yeah.
And it's taking that time to belike, I am gifting this to
myself because I am worthy of itand I deserve it.
And, you know, the world needsthe best version of me, you
know, and my daughter needs thebest version of me.
And I, I deserve to be able toshow up for myself that way too.
(21:18):
Yeah.
And you know, I'm talking aboutthis as like I and me, but
anybody.
Yeah.
Like you listening to this, theworld deserves, you know, the
best version of you and youdeserve the best version of you.
Yeah.
This was something that I wroteyesterday and I'm, you know,
paraphrasing from memory, butit, when we tap into our
creativity, that is when we areour fullest self and our fullest
(21:43):
self is our best self.
Right.
And so it's, it's more than justpicking up a paintbrush or, you
know, getting out your old tapshoes or, you know, it's more
than the thing that you'redoing.
Yeah.
It's the becoming.
Yeah.
Right.
It's the way you're bringing toit.
Exactly.
Yeah, exactly.
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I love that.
Yeah.
I, it's, it's interesting causeI, um, Through this process, I
really wanted to open myself upto this, like, limitless energy.
And just, like, I don't want tohold myself back in fear
(22:27):
anymore.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
(23:02):
of like, oh, maybe I can dothis.
Yeah, something you've beenwanting to for a long time and
looking at from far away.
And like admiring from, yeah, inthe distance and like admiring
other artists who could.
Yeah.
You know, and then just beinglike, oh, but I can't.
I'm like, no, no more of that.
No more, like there's a reasonI'm drawn to this.
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You know, like it seems fun.
It seems interesting and cool tome.
There's a spider on my wall andI just keep looking.
looking at it like oh okay sorryspeaking of fear oh my gosh
really being so brave test herethank you it's luckily a little
one yeah if it was a big one wemight have to pause take it take
(23:47):
care of it oh my gosh that's sofunny uh yeah so anyways showing
up showing up with that likelimitless energy of you know I
and it just it takes just Yeah,right.
(24:32):
I think is beautiful and what Iget excited about seeing and
what I want, you know, in myhome and, and then, you know,
talking about the things thatare important to me and, you
know, just showing up in all ofthese different ways.
And then what's reallyinteresting that happened is
through this process, I had thisexperience, which again is very
personal.
(24:52):
I'm not going to share exactlywhat happened,
SPEAKER_00 (24:54):
but
SPEAKER_01 (24:55):
the idea of it.
is you know working on thisprocess I had a a memory and
like realization come to me oflike a past trauma that I had
completely suppressed yeah anddidn't even like realize and so
I've been able to start workingthrough that and it's something
(25:15):
that I didn't consciouslyrealize and yet it's been
holding me back in reallysignificant ways for years and
years and like it It's been sopowerful to be able to actually
start.
releasing that and healing fromit and working through it.
And it's going to be a process.
(25:35):
It's going to take some time,but just having that start
because I gave myself thepermission of, you know what?
I'm strong and I'm capable and Ican handle the scary things and
I can grow and I'm ready to, youknow, it's just, ah, I love
that.
That is powerful.
(25:56):
Right.
And who would have thought justfrom sitting down and painting
every week that it can have thatYeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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Yeah, that is, that's amazing.
(26:51):
And, um, I have not wanted to doit, you know, I'll sit down and
it's like, Ooh, but, um, butyesterday, like the last couple
of weeks, it's been, it's beenwarming up, right.
As we've been using our voicesin this way in the podcast and
we've been talking more and Idon't know, just like through
the process.
(27:11):
Um, then yesterday I was able tofinally sit down and I wrote
like five pages.
What?
Yeah.
It felt like that release.
And so it's, yeah, like yousaid, it's a process, right?
It's a process.
It's not all at once and we'renot going to get it just because
we have the idea or the goal tobe here where, you know, it's
(27:33):
going to take practice and it'sgoing to take time, which is
absolutely fine.
You know, that's absolutely theway that it's supposed to be.
Yeah.
Because if we just like had thethought, Hmm, I want to be this
way.
And then we were that way.
Right.
Right.
It would just, that's notrealistic.
no it's not I mean we had theidea for this back in November
(27:54):
right right and it's May now andwe're like okay you know kick
off the year the new yearrunning like we're gonna start
January 1st this is gonna be athing and then it came to
January 1st and we were notready yeah like it took some
prep work to just be likegetting to the place of showing
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up yeah to be able to do thisinternally yeah internal prep
work yeah so we didn't end upstarting in Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
(28:51):
get to a place that we reallygot started yeah right um yeah
and how sad would it have beenif it's like well i didn't start
on this like self-imposeddeadline and i didn't get going
and like you know it's so easyat least past me it would have
been like oh i'm a failure yeahlike oh it's not like i just i
(29:13):
can't stick to my goals i can'tyou know i would remember it us
being like oh no we didn't do ityou know and we're like taking
so long but really I mean threethree months from conception to
starting that's not that's notit's really you know like when
you look back it's like ohactually it's not that big of a
deal right yeah yeah I mean Ifeel like so often yeah in the
(29:33):
moment we're like oh no you knowwe missed the week oh no we
missed and now you know we'rethree months into it we haven't
shared anything on social mediaright you know but it's it
really is that matter of okaywe're taking it one thing at a
time right like okay we startstarted actually creating the
(29:54):
like we we took those like prepmonths of what what really do we
want this to be and can we beshowing up you know to create
the art and can we journal andlike yeah it took some time to
figure out for us yeah and toget a little more clarity on
what this thing was to be yeahwhat do we want to do to do with
it yeah because we knew wewanted to do an art um like
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challenge basically and we kindof had that goal of We didn't
really have the consciousthought and clarity of wanting
to build safety in the artpractice.
It was one of those things thatit was inside of us, and that
was where our intuition wasleading us.
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That was the core of it.
But it wasn't conscious yet.
Yeah, it took some time to–Yeah, it took some time to get
there.
And then when we got there, itwas more settled of like, oh,
this is what we're doing.
This is what we're wanting.
Exactly.
But again, clarity andconfidence only came by doing,
(30:58):
by taking steps.
And we're going towards it,right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because I mean, we say weofficially started the last week
of February, but throughJanuary, we weren't necessarily
showing up consistently week toweek.
But we were starting thatprocess of showing up, getting
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together.
Yeah.
Do the things that we said wewere going to do.
Yeah.
It's like I had built up alittle bit of the, you know,
(31:52):
just like a little bit of thatresilience, a little bit of that
courage.
And it was like, okay, I'm goingto actually like, you know,
break out the nice paper.
Yeah.
This week.
But it wasn't, it would beunfair to say that we just
started from scratch that week.
Yeah.
Because I don't think that's,well, I guess that's not how I
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operate.
Yeah, no.
(32:42):
Right.
That's essential.
You can't skip that part.
every week we did show up forourselves in some way towards
(33:05):
this goal.
And now looking back at it all,it's like, wow, look at what we
did.
Look at what we did.
And, and just how I feel aboutmyself.
Yeah.
Complete change in the pastthree months.
That's really the most likeimportant part of this.
It's not about what we did.
Right.
It's about how we have changedas people.
SPEAKER_00 (33:25):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (33:26):
As individuals and how we've grown because we're,
we're going to That's what itis.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So interesting.
And I, I, the thing that Ididn't do very much of was the
journaling.
Yeah.
I did some of it.
Well, good.
I'm glad that makes me feelvalidated.
Yeah.
Like I, I didn't show up like ahundred percent.
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I didn't create art every weekand journal every week.
And we did show up for therecording every week.
We did.
Well, actually not even thatbecause we had some weeks where
we didn't, and then we like madeup, you know, some, some
episodes.
We made her work with the crazyschedules.
But even then, you know, it waslike, it wasn't every Friday,
(34:08):
you know, at this, likesometimes life just doesn't
always work on schedule andthat's okay.
And that's, that's what thewhole thing about this is, is
how do we, how do we still showup amidst craziness and life and
imperfection and, and still moveforward.
Right.
In the direction that we want togo.
(34:29):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (34:29):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (34:30):
It's flexibility.
Right.
Resiliency and just.
Yeah.
And gumption, that was the wordthat came to mind.
Gumption, yeah.
Well, it's interesting.
Continuing, you know, keepgoing.
Yeah, I didn't journal everyweek, but I did have that
introspection every week.
Partially because I felt alittle forced to because we were
going to get together and talkabout it.
Yeah, yeah, same.
(34:50):
I was like, oh, I have to havesomething interesting to say to
Brianna when she comes over.
I got to think about what'shappening.
But that's been helpful.
It has, yeah.
No, I didn't actually put pen topaper.
There were some times where itwas a little overwhelming.
It was like, oh.
no but it actually ended upbeing really helpful and really
(35:11):
good yeah just really reallypositive yeah okay so second
quarter the next three months isthere anything you're hoping to
do differently or I don't reallywant to say better but like show
up more of in certain ways yeahsaying that like what are you
(35:32):
what are you hoping for what doyou I mean we are going into
summer for us yeah we're goinginto summer so I think the main
hope for me is to just keep keepgoing you know like stay on the
course that I have been on yeahand keep showing up um and just
looking for the spider sorry Ihad to check it was it was over
(35:53):
me and like I asked you aquestion and then I'm like wait
where is it it's fine we're okayuh yeah no it's okay so keep
keep showing up that's that's mymain goal Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Same here.
Same here.
And I'm hoping to get mydaughter involved.
Yeah.
I was just going to say that.
I was like– and, you know, itwould be really, really good to
(36:15):
kind of, you know, involve mypeople, right?
Like the people that I'm with.
So if you don't have kids, youknow, that's okay.
Like– maybe if it feels safe andif you want to incorporating
the, the people that you arearound and that you love and
into what you, into what you'redoing and what lights you up,
(36:36):
that's, I think that there'spower in that, especially if
they're, when they're a safeperson.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (36:43):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (36:44):
So, but yeah, incorporating, figuring out how
to incorporate it with, withparenting time and, you know,
like parent being, you know,Right.
Yeah.
(37:26):
our full self.
Yeah, and shifting away fromthat checklist mentality and
just...
to the present yeah yeah I lovethat I guess one of my goals on
top of that which I love is I dowant to try to journal a little
bit more yeah because I didnotice a difference when I when
(37:48):
I actually you know sat down andworked on that yeah I've been
thinking a lot about the artistway by Julia Beck I believe is
her name I forget her name but Iknow what you're talking about
it's Julia Julia something Ialways want to say Julia Child
and I'm like she's not that'swrong Julia but yeah Julia Beck
(38:10):
anyways I've been thinking a lotabout that because I read that
like seven years ago
SPEAKER_00 (38:15):
at the beginning
SPEAKER_01 (38:15):
of my journey and I'm wanting to revisit it again
now in this mindset yeah and shetalks about doing morning pages
which is journaling first thingin the morning and just like
getting it out the timingdoesn't always that doesn't work
for me and so But I still wantto kind of incorporate that idea
(38:39):
and journal and just like braindump, get it out, right?
I think I'm feeling more readyto release some of that.
Yay, I'm so happy for you.
That's exciting.
Thank you.
I mean, I know that's a bigdeal.
It is.
Yeah, it's been hard.
I'm so glad.
I'm so glad that this hasactually been helpful for both
(38:59):
of us.
Me too.
It would have been kind ofdisappointing if it was like,
Never mind.
Maybe this wasn't a good idea.
No, this has actually madeprofound differences and impact.
More than we even thought itwould or realized that it could.
So cool.
So cool.
We're excited to keep going andwe're excited that you're
(39:23):
joining us and here along thejourney.
We love having you here.
We love having more community.
I mean, we haven't even sharedanything yet.
So we're just hoping thatthere's gonna be somebody
listening and there's somecommunity here yeah maybe it's
our three month marker threemonths to prep to start it three
months to do it and then threemonths to share I don't know I
(39:45):
guess we'll start sharing soonthat's the big goal though is to
actually start sharingconsistently yeah yeah so stay
tuned we're gonna start sharing
SPEAKER_03 (39:53):
yeah
SPEAKER_01 (39:54):
you're listening to this we've done it we we did it
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can keep hearing ourconversations and follow along
our journey and we want tocelebrate you too that's right
and and we'll see you next timethat's it for today friend
(40:19):
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with a little more light alittle more peace and maybe even
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encouragement too.
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