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Have you ever been told that in order to survive and get on in this world, you need to develop a thick skin? Maybe you've been led to believe that softness is weakness (and not in a good way), and that to be soft is to be less-than. Well I don't think so! What if, in order to grow into our creativity and our relationships with more freedom, softness was the way forward? Join me today as I explore why I don't think that the process of softening isn't stupidity. In today's episode I reference Braving The Wilderness by Brené Brown, a great book, well worth reading. Support the showIf you would like to support the podcast, you can do so here! To hear more from me, head over to cassiehubert.com or check out my linktree And you can also click here to sign up to my newsletter Connect, Create & Resonate Original Artwork - Eleanor Oliver & Cassie Hubert Original Music - Cassie Hubert.

How often do you find that you have big plans or ideas, but then fail to be able to execute them because of... well... Life? Perhaps you long to fulfill a big project, but it's slow going due to ongoing health needs, or family commitments or because you simply cannot maintain the pace? You are not alone. This is where embracing the 'Stop/Start' way of pursuing what matters will get you further than nowhere. Because even showing up in small ways, as and when you can, is better than not showing up at all! Allow me to encourage you to embrace where you are right now with kindness, and allow you to see that it won't render you obsolete. That Deep Work - my poem on doing the deep, inner work for ourselves. Support the showIf you would like to support the podcast, you can do so here! To hear more from me, head over to cassiehubert.com or check out my linktree And you can also click here to sign up to my newsletter Connect, Create & Resonate Original Artwork - Eleanor Oliver & Cassie Hubert Original Music - Cassie Hubert.

Making art requires connection to our emotions and physical sensations... the more connected we are, the better able we are to create work that resonates. However, we can mistake this need to be in touch with our feelings with a sense that we should reside in that feeling space, when by nature, a bubble of Feeeeelings is just that, a fixed bubble of stasis. So how can we treasure those feelings without needing to be stuck within them in order to feel truly alive? Support the showIf you would like to support the podcast, you can do so here! To hear more from me, head over to cassiehubert.com or check out my linktree And you can also click here to sign up to my newsletter Connect, Create & Resonate Original Artwork - Eleanor Oliver & Cassie Hubert Original Music - Cassie Hubert.

When you can't see what's happening below the surface, it can cause us to worry whether anything is actually happening at all - whether we are discussing personal growth or creative development. Yet what if the deepest work, that gets us to the point where we see progress on the surface, actually benefits from happening out of sight? Learning to trust our instincts, particularly when we feel wobbly about our progress, is a really valuable practice to cultivate. Support the showIf you would like to support the podcast, you can do so here! To hear more from me, head over to cassiehubert.com or check out my linktree And you can also click here to sign up to my newsletter Connect, Create & Resonate Original Artwork - Eleanor Oliver & Cassie Hubert Original Music - Cassie Hubert.

When making creative work (and also being in healthy relationships) a lot of value is placed on being able to be present. You can't actually make something that is in the past - it has already passed us by. Neither can we create something in the future, if we don't begin the process now. Yet how many of us spend much of our thought and feeling life time-travelling between past and future? I know I do! So what helps us to stay present - getting more connected to our bodies. Join me as I explore the concepts of embodiment and time travel in the areas of creativity and relationships. Support the showIf you would like to support the podcast, you can do so here! To hear more from me, head over to cassiehubert.com or check out my linktree And you can also click here to sign up to my newsletter Connect, Create & Resonate Original Artwork - Eleanor Oliver & Cassie Hubert Original Music - Cassie Hubert.

We all have moments of self doubt, and when we are pursuing a path that is more off the beaten track, it can feel really hard, and sometimes lonely, when we doubt our choices. Yet if we see our creative and personal lives as being part of a quest, an ongoing journey in pursuit of something meaningful, rather than something we will live out to the letter, it has the capacity to free us up to trust the journey, and hopefully connect with the experiences and scenery along the way. Support the showIf you would like to support the podcast, you can do so here! To hear more from me, head over to cassiehubert.com or check out my linktree And you can also click here to sign up to my newsletter Connect, Create & Resonate Original Artwork - Eleanor Oliver & Cassie Hubert Original Music - Cassie Hubert.

How often do you judge your ideas (or people - guilty here) too soon  and without the full picture?   For our creativity to thrive and our ideas to flow, we need to leave judgement at the door. Once we have got the idea or the work fully formed, then we are in a better position to apply critical thinking to the work, and make our adjustments, but too soon, and we'll probably kill it off. The same applies to the people in our lives. Join me as I chat through the nature of judgement and it's relationship to deeper connection. Support the showIf you would like to support the podcast, you can do so here! To hear more from me, head over to cassiehubert.com or check out my linktree And you can also click here to sign up to my newsletter Connect, Create & Resonate Original Artwork - Eleanor Oliver & Cassie Hubert Original Music - Cassie Hubert.

How often do we ignore the pull towards something, because we feel we should be doing something else right now? What if we were to be more responsive to those things which do draw us, trusting that we will come back to the shoulds more easily at a later point, and possibly with a greater energy and impetus, due to listening to the deeper parts of ourselves? Join me for today's episode as I explore this. Support the showIf you would like to support the podcast, you can do so here! To hear more from me, head over to cassiehubert.com or check out my linktree And you can also click here to sign up to my newsletter Connect, Create & Resonate Original Artwork - Eleanor Oliver & Cassie Hubert Original Music - Cassie Hubert.

** Welcome to season 6 of Connecting The Dots!*** After the darkest season of Winter, yet before Spring is sprung, join me as I deep dive into all things creativity, artistry, parenting, self-care, personal growth, relationships and EVERYTHING that helps us live more fully into our freedom as creative, vibrant beings - separate to, but not exclusive of our productivity. So this episode kicks off with a bit of reflection and planning around how we ebb and flow in our rhythms of life, and how that is not a bad thing, but all part of the process. I am also encouraging us to be intentional about noticing those patterns of ebb, where we repeatedly find ourselves running low on creative energy, and  plotting in down time in order to allow us to find our flow again, replenished and creatively vibrant. Support the showIf you would like to support the podcast, you can do so here! To hear more from me, head over to cassiehubert.com or check out my linktree And you can also click here to sign up to my newsletter Connect, Create & Resonate Original Artwork - Eleanor Oliver & Cassie Hubert Original Music - Cassie Hubert.

As the days get shorter and darker and we look forward to the coming of the lights of Christmas and hope for the light of new life and creativity in Spring, it can feel as though the waiting is forever. When a difficult season drags, it can be so tempting to give up hope that there will ever be a shift, but i am here to offer you some encouragement that this season is not forever, the wait is not for nothing, and it is not empty. Support the showIf you would like to support the podcast, you can do so here! To hear more from me, head over to cassiehubert.com or check out my linktree And you can also click here to sign up to my newsletter Connect, Create & Resonate Original Artwork - Eleanor Oliver & Cassie Hubert Original Music - Cassie Hubert.

Christmas is getting closer, and all the energy is ramping up as we prepare for the coming festivities, but as we enter the season of Advent, maybe we can take a little bit of time to gather inwards, with our thoughts and feelings and with our families in order to sit with the hiatus of the 'now and not yet', and reflect on where we are before we rush into the season, headlong. Support the showIf you would like to support the podcast, you can do so here! To hear more from me, head over to cassiehubert.com or check out my linktree And you can also click here to sign up to my newsletter Connect, Create & Resonate Original Artwork - Eleanor Oliver & Cassie Hubert Original Music - Cassie Hubert.

Stories are powerful ways of helping us make sense of the world and our own experiences. Even more so, our own personal stories and the way we engage with and express them. It's not about spin, but framing does matter,  because our stories matter. So allowing ourselves to connect with them with comfort and hope - and a good cuppa, is another way of honouring our voices and caring for ourselves. Support the showIf you would like to support the podcast, you can do so here! To hear more from me, head over to cassiehubert.com or check out my linktree And you can also click here to sign up to my newsletter Connect, Create & Resonate Original Artwork - Eleanor Oliver & Cassie Hubert Original Music - Cassie Hubert.