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Molly Rose Freeman is an artist and designer weaving vibrant color and organic patterns into the spaces where we live, work, and dream.

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Molly Rose Freeman is an artist and designer weaving vibrant colors and organic patterns into the spaces where we live, work, and dream.

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🌟 FIND THE LIGHT 🌟
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I think about seeds a lot: how they spend days, weeks, months of their life in darkness and cold. And then one day, they decide it’s time to get a move on in the work of becoming their full selves. They begin in darkness, and yet somehow, encoded into their DNA, is one simple message: Find the light.
Keep going.
Keep growing.
And find the light.
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If someone asked me, what is your greatest inspiration, it may be this—the seed. And not just the seeds that grow oak trees and sunflowers and tomatoes, I’m also talking about the seeds that we work with every day: the seeds of ideas. I think sometimes we forget how brave we humans can be, how much courage it takes to bring an idea to life, no matter how small. We take something that only exists in the darkness of our minds and we water, nurture, and protect it so that it can break through the surface and enter the world. Every single human has that ability, every single human can make something real where only potential existed before.
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So nurture your seeds! They are our future, and they need all the devoted, imaginative, supportive caretakers they can get.
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I have a seed of my own, a new project that’s been germinating for awhile now, and I hope that *soon* it will be finding its light. 🌟If you want to be the first to hear when I share it, sign up for my newsletter on the site (link in bio.) ~
#seedsofthefuture #tendtothefuture #findingthelight

💎 YOUR GIFTS ARE YOURS 💎
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When you are creative for a living, you can start to feel like you are always using your creativity in service of others: how can I make something that will move people? How can I do something my community/audience/customers will love? How can I use my gifts to lift up others? As someone who has worked in public art for almost ten years, these are things I’ve thought about a lot—and I consider it a real honor to be of service in this way.
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Sometimes, though, I forget where it all started. I forget that my creative practice is what helped me make sense of a world that felt chaotic and hard and disconnected. It gave me a voice after I’d been a shy kid for a long time. It gave me confidence that I had something to share with the world. It gave me a community of people who let me be myself when I’d always felt different.
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My creative practice—whether it took the form of painting or drawing or writing—helped me feel like I was a part of something big, intricately connected, and ever-evolving. It saved me, and it made me. •
That’s where it all started, doing this practice—whatever form it took—in service to myself. And tonight, I remembered that. I had an overwhelming day, so I came into the studio, and for ten hours I sat at my work table and made shapes out of beads and thread. While I worked, I felt like I was stitching my emotions into new patterns, weaving my thoughts into new stories. I felt my inner world coming out through my hands, taking form, and releasing.
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Tonight, I remembered that your gifts don’t always have to be for other people. Sometimes they are just for you, and that is more than enough.
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#creativity #creativepractice #creativegifts #creativeselfcare

🦋 PHASE FOUR: REBUILDING 🦋
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(Continued from previous posts, “the Four R’s of Creative Metamorphosis.”)
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Phase 4: Rebuilding
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Rebuilding is the time for action! In this final phase of the metamorphosis, you get to create new systems within your life that support the next era in your evolution. Maybe it's a new way of structuring your time so you have more freedom, or a financial system that helps you reach a new goal. Maybe it's a physical reorganization of your space, or a recommitment to a certain practice. Maybe it's the decision to leave your job and go wandering for a bit, OR the decision to stop wandering and commit to a job you really want.
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Whatever it is, I hope that after going through this process, you're able to build some structures that support what's right for you and help bring your voice into the world with strength, integrity, and joy.
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Remember that there is no set time frame for this process—it will take as long as it takes, and you may feel that the movement between these phases is more cyclical than linear. That's fine, just keep going.
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Do you know how a butterfly finally emerges from its chrysalis? After it has gone through its transformation and reformed into its new self, it takes one huge, deep breath, and expands until it bursts free from its confinements. So when you've done the work, and it's time for you to break free from your chrysalis, you can do just the same: take one big breath, and get ready to spread your wings.
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#metamorphosis #creativemetamorphosis #creativelifecycle #cyclesofcreativity #bigtransformation #rebuilding

🦋 PHASE THREE: RE-EVALUATION 🦋
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(Continued from previous posts: the Four R’s of Creative Metamorphosis)
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Phase Three: Re-evaluation
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Reevaluation is a time for inquiry into what it is that you actually want in the next phase of your journey. Here are some questions that may be helpful:
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What do you desire?
What are you passionate about?
What are you curious about?
What do you enjoy doing?
What do you despise doing?
What sparks your imagination?
What are you attracted to?
What drains you?
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If you find yourself getting too intellectual about this process and feeling like you don't know what it is that you really want (which is way more common than you'd imagine!) then you can try an exercise I use a lot, which I call “Expansion or Contraction.”
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This exercise uses the wisdom of your body to bypass any mental trickery and bring you into clarity about what feels right (expansive) and what feels wrong (contractive.) For example, when I ask myself “What kind of workspace do I desire?” two different images may come into my mind. So I'll tune into my body and literally feel them out. When I imagine Option A, working in a studio space with lots of big windows and a view of the forest, I feel my physical body start to expand and lighten. When I imagine Option B, working in a co-working space in a building in the city, I feel my body start to contract and feel tight. So my answer here is clear: what I really want is Option A, even if my mind wants to choose the potentially more practical Option B. It's an effective tool for getting to the heart of the matter: what is right for you?
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It's also a good way to notice anywhere that you're enacting a “should”: “I'm doing this because I should,” which generally translates to, “I think that other people expect this of me, and I'm doing this because I don't want to upset or disappoint them.” “Shoulds” are a sure-fire sign that you're allowing external factors to guide you, rather than your own internal guide (hello intuition!)
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This phase of reevaluation is a time to be clear and incisive. If you love lists, this is your chance to go nuts! For example.... ~
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