Creativity and Positive Psychology
Lizzie Larock is a photographer, a writer, and a positive-psychology based coach who runs the online creativity workshop called, The Life Feast. The Life Feast teaches people how to use photography and positive psychology to savor, swoon and sincerely fall in love with their life.
Connect with her here: https://www.larockstarcreative.com/
Show Notes:
“Laughter has been one of my most saving graces… a way to cope and remind my body that I am safe”
Friendship podcast: Connection, Community, and Friendship After Abortion
The Life Feast
“My pathway to flourishing is through creativity”
Sometimes we have to get out of feeling and thinking and go DO
5 walks to take to boost your creativity
Changing your perspective in your mind through the lens of a camera
“Being engaged is mindfulness without effort”
Opening creativity through your phone
IVF struggle before adoption of twins
“There’s art in the everyday, everywhere, even on the worst days”
Using creativity to figure out who you are
Art “Expressing what’s inside us that we can’t put the words too”
“Connect to what you can’t put to words” through poetry, song, creativity
“Creativity brings up a lot of shit in us”
“Be with that person who made that difficult choice”
“Connect and have compassion for all of us”
“Complexity and nuance of the whole beautiful mess of being human”
“The cracks are our connection points” cracks where the light comes in- Leonard Cohen
Came back to art after major losses
“Write and cry and laugh and express”
“Creativity as a self care method is not culturally accepted”
Addiction shame
Infertility shame
“Create beauty out of the things that aren’t thought of as beautiful”
“We are velcro for what’s shity and we are teflon for what’s good”
“Savoring what’s good in life”
3 Good Things practice
