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For years I meditated on returning my body to its original blueprint. Then I realized — that blueprint was corrupted by inherited trauma.So I updated the meditation:Instead of healing back to baseline, I'm mutating my DNA toward the truest resonance of love my body can be, hold, and become.It's already cooperating.I'm reversing astigmatism. Healing autoimmune patterns. Becoming mushroom, seaweed, and beet. (Literally eating things I swore I hated.)But beyond healing — which frankly, I find dull and tedious at this point — I'm interested in mutation.What could I become if I were beyond needing to repair?I recorded a meditation for anyone ready to shift from maintenance mode to evolution mode.Your cells are listening. Your DNA is responsive. The mutation is already underway.Trust the becoming.✨ Explore more:@arielgracefull🪐 CreativelyFree.Substack.com🎬 @CreativelyFreeStudios

This week’s Tea Talk is a little different — it’s just you and me, heart to heart.No guest, no script — just some honest reflections on community, creativity, and the ever-evolving dance between the two. I’ve been thinking about how community has changed for me — not as a social construct, but as a creative act. As something we build with our voices, our stories, and our willingness to be seen. I want to hear from you — the creators, the visionaries, the quiet dreamers — and connect more deeply. I’m also sharing a glimpse into my latest creative act: a cozy sci-fi story born from the intersection of imagination and belonging — where art and soul activism meet stardust and hearthlight. This episode is an offering — a reminder that soul activism isn’t just protest; it’s creation. Every time we choose to live and make from love, we shift the collective frequency a little higher.  Explore more of my work: Join me on insta: @arielgracefull💌 Join the Journey: Creatively Free Email🪐 Substack: CreativelyFree.Substack.com🎬 Entertainment Studio: CreativelyFreeStudios.com @CreativelyFreeStudios✨ The Eura Trilogy book 1 Launch 2025: Entwined Dimensions book 1 of the @EuraTrilogy or EntwinedDimensions.com (The episode art is a picture of me as a kid, being the storyteller I always was meant to be then, too!)

I’m beyond grateful to share today’s episode with my guest Akashka, so grab your tea and get ready for a sip of soul activism. We’re diving into what it truly means to reclaim the sacred — not as a trend, not something you can Google, but as a deeply personal, private act of truth. Akashka is a longtime health therapist who has spent recent years in deep reverence with nature, honoring the seer and channel she is — one who is in love with the soul of the Earth, Gaya. Her upcoming book is a devotion to the sacred: a breath of true love and life’s deepest invitation. It’s written for those who’ve never felt at home in systems that suppress their natural beauty. This Tea Talk is a co-creative portal — a love poem that doesn’t aim to rewrite the stars, but to awaken the star codes we already carry in our DNA. Codes of love that don’t need to be named, categorized, or explained. Just felt. This is about reclaiming our being as Art — and how beauty, when rooted in discernment and our connection to nature, becomes its own quiet revolution. For those who feel too much, see too deeply, and still choose to create — this one’s for you. ✨ Explore her work at akashka.com or connect with her on Instagram @akashkalove 🎧 LISTEN: http://bit.ly/CreativelyFreePodcast 💌 Join the journey: http://bit.ly/CreativelyFreeEmail Substack: https://substack.com/@creativelyfree Work with Ariel: CreativelyFree.Live Entertainment studio: CreativelyFreeStudios.com

Emotions aren’t meant to be shut away — they’re keys to healing ourselves and, ripple by ripple, softening violence in the world. This month in this solo episode, we’re exploring how to turn big, wild feelings into artful activism and deepen our relationship with ourselves. I dive into:🌸 How to gently observe your emotions without judgment, like watching clouds drift by🌸 Relating to your feelings through a Jungian lens — seeing them as wise messengers from your inner depths🌸 The invitation to become endlessly curious about your feelings and learn to embrace them, even the messy ones🌸 The metaphor of fire — how emotions can burn, illuminate, transform, and ultimately warm us when tended with care And so much more soul-nourishing magic. WATCH OR LISTEN: http://bit.ly/CreativelyFreePodcast To work with Ariel or collaborate visit http://creativelyfree.live

✨ What if the missing link to your soul’s truth… was the part of you that still believes in magic, talks to trees, and dances for no reason at all? Yep — your inner child knows the way home. She (he or they) remembers who you are beneath the noise.And this meditation? It’s a love note to that remembering. With healing binaural beats woven through 🎧, it gently guides your nervous system into rest… so the old stories, the hidden aches, the quiet wounds can rise —and release through softness, through witnessing, through care.Because true healing happens when we meet ourselves with tenderness. 🎧 WATCH: CreativelyFreeTV 💌 Join the journey: CreativelyFree Email💫 Work with Ariel: CreativelyFree.Live🎬 Our studio: CreativelyFreeStudios.com

Creatively Free — Season 3: Tea Talks A soul-led season of cozy, unfiltered conversations. No spotlights, just warm tea, creative musings, and blooming ideas. Think of it as the anti-TED Talk — for mystical minds, sensitive creators, and nature-loving disruptors. ✨ New episodes dropping organically. 🎧 WATCH: http://bit.ly/CreativelyFreeTV  💌 Join the journey: http://bit.ly/CreativelyFreeEmail Work with Ariel: CreativelyFree.Live Entertainment studio: CreativelyFreeStudios.com

This month’s magic from Creatively Free is all about overcoming overwhelm and creating systems as an artist. My guest is Stephanie Porcello. Stephanie is a multi-passionate artist, author, speaker, and mental health advocate. Before finding her creative voice, Stephanie was an audiologist. While recovering from a concussion, she discovered painting released the emotions trapped inside her that she couldn’t describe with words. Stephanie’s abstract paintings are beautiful disasters, teetering between areas of messy chaos and calming deep breaths. She paints visual songs that offer a moment of rest to remind you that you are not alone when you are struggling. They are designed to inspire people to keep reaching for beauty and hope, even when all feels lost. She continues to share her compassionate spirit through her public speaking and classes. She empowers others to re-think negative perspectives and nurture their favorite selves. Instagram: @StephaniePorcelloArt Website: StephaniePorcelloArt.com  Highlights include: 🌸 How did you end up as a best selling author, an artist and teacher? 🌸 Her art and music and how they work together with her senses 🌸 Being highly sensitive  🌸 The idea of “visual songs” and your health issues, how painting has become a voice 🌸 How she creates systems to overcome overwhelm and stay productive as a creator And so much more!! For more magic from Creatively Free visit CreativelyFreeStudios.com

What is the tie to personal transformation and living creatively free? Tune in to this month’s episode of Creatively Free with my guest Linda (Shekinah) Fischer, a beacon of transformation and empowerment. With an insatiable thirst for knowledge and a relentless drive to understand the core of human motivation, Linda has dedicated the past four decades to fostering sustainable change within herself and others. Her remarkable recovery from addiction ignited her passion and purpose, leading her to a life of fulfillment and pleasure. As an Ontological Coach trained by Newfield Network, as well as an accomplished author and educator, Linda empowers individuals to discover their inner brilliance and realize their potential. Her unwavering commitment is to inspire and support people worldwide in achieving a fulfilling life, regardless of their circumstances, and to assure them that they are not alone on their journey. Her book, "From Hell to Heaven: 16 Lessons & Blessing to Inspire Your Journey Beyond Recovery" is now available at lindalfischer.com. Highlights include: 🌸 Where her name has evolved, what it means, and how it impacts her creativity 🌸 Her journey to becoming a memoir author as she overcame a Near Death Experience (NDE) and recovered from trauma and addiciton  🌸 How she views the human experience as a spiritual being and the opportunity that creativity offers us And so much more! Tune in! For more magic from Creatively Free or to work with Ariel, visit http://www.CreativelyFree.live.

This month’s magic from Creatively Free is about Embodied Movement &  Multidimensional Art with the incredible artist / performer / poet / dancer Nadja Haas. She is also an incredible multidimensional healer who introduced me to the space of family constellation healing. Nadja Haas' work is based on several original versions; She examines the tension between performance dance and traditional texts/images, structures and processes. She constantly develops new tactics to achieve an expanded concept of performance. It treats conceptual fields as impermanence. She is part of the ‚freie Szene‘ Berlin since 2011. She holds a BA in Fine Arts Multimedia/Painting, Kingston University, Surrey GB  Diploma, Performing Arts Dance / Choreography, Holborn Performing Arts Centre, London, UK MA Master Slade School of Fine Art. Visit her at www.nadjadances.com She’s on insta @nadjadances Dance insta groups she referenced during the podcast:  Dreamscapers dasbridging.world nosotrosenelcuerpo Highlights include: 🌸 How she developed her artistic way and the variety of how her art changed as she learned new languages and traveled  🌸 How her illness gave her a new pathway to creative expression 🌸 How she loves to work with collaborative art as the primary format for her creative expression 🌸Multidimensional, interdisciplinary, cross industry artistic projects she is participating in research, art and AI 🌸 How movement helps us to embody and experience the truth of the human form And so much more!! For more magic from Creatively Free or to work with Ariel, visit http://www.CreativelyFree.live.

“If you’re ever lost, your inner child will help you with your self expression.” This month’s magic from Creatively Free is about the soulful expression through our style with the incredible Holly Chayes. Holly Chayes is a personal style coach and consultant focusing on everyday genuine style and helping you build and wear the wardrobe you love. (Even when you’re running late, fighting a cold, and it's laundry day.) Because our lives are lived between monumental milestone moments. She has a background in costume design & wardrobe for theater, knitwear design & pattern writing for hand knitters, and building & running marketing and operations systems for creative businesses. She is the host of Talking About Clothes with Holly Chayes, a podcast where she talks about clothes with the people who wear them, and the writer behind Who Wears Who? A website devoted to helping you reclaim your closet. Find out more and get started reconnecting with your style at WhoWearsWho.com  She’s on insta @whowearswho  Highlights include: 🌸 Her background in costume design and how it evolved 🌸 How she helps people discover their latest soulful way through their garmets 🌸 How she helps clients work with topics like body image, creativity and options that you may not have know were available to you! 🌸 How to be gentle with yourself no matter where you are in your self expression journey 🌸 Sustainable ways of wearing For more magic from Creatively Free or to work with Ariel, visit http://www.CreativelyFree.live.

In this riveting episode of Creatively Free with the legendary photographer and mixed media artist Warwick Saint, we explore living in the questions and discovering innovation at the creative edge - and how truly great art is an expression of divinity that is hard to define but is truly timeless. You don’t want to miss this, its electric! As a painter, award-winning photographer, and mixed media artist from South Africa, Saint has reimagined the role of lighting in film shoots with his adaptive techniques. Brands such as Nike, Puma, and Diesel have published global campaigns using Saint’s unaltered images, and he has shot album covers for icons such as Lady Gaga, Alicia Keys, Missy Elliot, JLo, and Whitney Houston, as well as countless iconic celebrity portraits and campaigns. In 2018, Saint moved beyond traditional photography and began exploring his work through painting—an inquiry into beauty, identity, celebrity, and the resulting psychological complexities of self-perception in our time. Saint's new creative process, which he calls "Lumadynamic Decomposition," is the result of challenging his own photography. To learn more and engage with Warwick, visit @warwicksaint and warwicksaint.com. Highlights include: 🌸 His evolution of his artistic journey 🌸 How he uses the void to discover true creative expression and innovation in art 🌸 How he relates to his vulnerability in discovering what to explore with a medium next 🌸 How he blends mediums to discover what is new and hasn't been explored 🌸 His interest in exploring creative tension and polarity in artistic expression 🌸 What beauty is to him and how he evaluates his art 🌸 How he values and dives into the art of marketing and creating an audience For more magic from Creatively Free or to work with Ariel, visit http://www.CreativelyFree.live.

What is being creatively disruptive? How does that tie to feeling truly creatively free? We contemplate these questions and more in this month’s episode of Creatively Free! If you’re curious about the secrets of fulfilled creative living, then ask Lauren Spangler. As a creativity coach she helps artists bridge the gap between their boldest visions and their everyday reality. A painter, writer, and musician herself, as well as a wife and mom of two, Lauren’s mission is to empower artists to enjoy the creative freedom they crave without giving up the financial stability they depend upon. She has helped hundreds of professionals set and achieve their goals, and now she’s here to help you unblock your inner artist and take big steps toward your biggest dreams. Take the free "Spark or Sputter?" Self-Assessment at www.laurenspangler.com/spark and connect with Lauren on Instagram at @laurenspangler. Highlights include: How Lauren navigated success and failures being a professional artist and musician Balancing the many urges of creativity and how to narrow in on what is alive now What being a ‘creative disruptor’ really is about and how it ties to artistic activism For more magic from Creatively Free or to work with Ariel visit http://www.CreativelyFree.live  We are delighted to be recognized by FeedSpot’s top 40 Creativity Podcast https://podcasts.feedspot.com/creativity_podcasts/

It’s here! The much anticipated intuition and creativity eepisode of Creatively Free where we dive into the realms of the creative spark, the source of your inuitive gifts and all things creative nudge related! Mallory Meyer is a Leadership & Neurocoach, Healer, Educator and International Speaker. As a former Corporate Human Resources professional and multiple six-figure entrepreneur, Mallory understands the complexities of navigating the world of business and corporate leadership and uses her unique approach of combining multiple modalities to now guide and support founders, executives and visionaries in achieving heightened levels of performance, profit, and productivity in a way that does not compromise their well-being with neurofitness solutions.  Trauma Sensitive, Leadership & Neurocoach Certified EFT, TIME, Hypnosis, Polyvagal-Informed and NLP Practitioner, Master Reiki Healer @leadermindshift www.whitewolfreiki.ca Highlights include: How she has found and developed her own intuition and how she uses it in her business and day to day life How intuition is directly tied to creativity How to explore your creative impulses with becoming a greater observer of your internal compass and intuitive process The nuances in developing your intuition and your spiritual gifts overall and what might block people from exploring them How to know if you are listening to your intuition and not some other influence For more magic from Creatively Free or to work wtih Ariel visit http://www.CreativelyFree.live

Where do ideas go, does it matter if we ™ them as ours and is it okay if we don’t finish them? These questions and more we explore in this month’s episode of Creatively Free. My guest, Eryc Eyl is a speaker, coach, and consultant with more than 30 years of experience in making work more human in a variety of industries and organizations. He believes in a world in which work is more than just a four-letter word, but part of path to greater satisfaction, fulfillment, self-actualization, and flourishing. Eryc is also a storyteller, playwright, and DJ. His first book, Stop Engaging Employees: Start Making Work More Human, was published in January 2024. Check out his work at: https://www.eryceyl.com  Highlights include: 🌸 How creative expression showed up for Eryc throughout his life and morphed into different formats 🌸 How he views intellectual capital and individuality versus collective good with ideas and content 🌸 What is great about being a starter? What other types are there in terms of seeing ideas through to completion?  🌸 How he finished his book (Finally) when he is more of a “starter” type 🌸 Ways to be in both vision and lean creation mode so that we actually birth our big ideas and allow for the natural unfolding of what’s next  For more magic from Creatively Free or to work wtih Ariel visit http://www.CreativelyFree.live  We are delighted to be recognized by FeedSpot’s top 40 Creativity Podcast https://podcasts.feedspot.com/creativity_podcasts/

In this episode of Creatively Free dive into the real and raw space of transforming your emotions with art and crafting a creative career that gives you the space you need to pursue your new creative urges!  My guest Corri Lynne is a children’s book author and illustrator living in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania with her husband and little dog, Peanut. She is passionate about living authentically and sharing openly about past trauma, addiction, and recovery, to challenge the stigma society still holds for these issues.  She is a lover of all things creative and believes in the power of art to heal and transform.  Corrilynne.com  Corri Lynne Dockum  on insta Amazon.com: Peanut's Bedtime Adventures Highlights include: 🌸 Her transformational journey of overcoming PTSD and trauma by allowing herself to unblock her creativity and receive support and therapy 🌸 Her creative career as a multi-passionate creative practicing as a stylist and gradually pivoting to deepening her artistic exploration with mindfulness children’s books as author and illustrator 🌸 How art can help us see our inner critic more clearly and overcome it 🌸 Why art does not need to only be beautiful and sellable  🌸 What the responses have been from children and schools around the books and mindfulness practices For more magic from Creatively Free or to work wtih Ariel visit http://www.CreativelyFree.live  We are delighted to be recognized by FeedSpot’s top 40 Creativity Podcast https://podcasts.feedspot.com/creativity_podcasts/