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Truly Kristi

Creative Alchemy by Kristi Casey

My mission: Help people be their best selves, do their best work, and live their best lives. I’m a creative alchemist, transmuting pain into the power to change.

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Are you keeping your stream clear?

Hey Reader! This morning began with an interview. A creativity explorer wanted to learn about my creative process. He peppered me with questions: But what is it mean to get unstuck? How does it feel? What is the benefit of this practice? I’d never thought about creativity in this way. I liked the challenge of figuring out how to articulate it. Creativity is bigger than ‘flow,’ because there is a constancy to it. It connects me to my source of inspiration. It moves through me, illuminating and...

3 days ago • 2 min read

Hey Reader! It’s so easy to get caught up in the rhythm of doing things at a pace that’s out of synch with our normal rhythms or require a drastic shift of priorities. Like when loved ones make plans without telling us . . . Family members fall ill . . . Kids forget to bring things they need at school . . . Bosses require reports on things we haven’t started . . . There are a million last-minute wrenches we may be asked to field during the course of a week. Saying ‘no’ to most of these...

10 days ago • 1 min read

Hey Reader! The jonquils and cherry blossoms triumphantly assure us an end to winter is near. They brave the fluctuating temperatures, and without letting frost or heavy rains diminish them, they punctuate the sky, asserting their will to live. So, too, do seeds we’ve planted burst forth. Just as we think we’ll never see a break in the storm, something vital emerges from the casing of our soul to reach skyward. As the creative sap rises within us, we birth beauty and joy. In this way, we...

17 days ago • 1 min read

Hey Reader! I think something must be in the air. If I gave chapters of my life titles, the past two weeks should be known as A Comedy of Errors. It all started when I lost the only key to my car. A kind neighbor drove me and my kid to school so they wouldn’t be late. Just in case I couldn’t find my keys before school ended, I packed their chorus clothes and arranged for a friend to drive them to their evening concert. When the keys failed to reveal themselves, she drove my kid home. The next...

24 days ago • 5 min read

Hey Reader! There’s a Rumi quote I love that goes, “As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.” Oftentimes, we delay doing things because we don’t know how we’ll achieve them. There isn’t a map or a plan. We get hung up on the ‘how.’ We let our uncertainty about the outcome keep us from trying. That’s how your whole life might pass by without you ever writing that book, or visiting that place, or . . . or . . . or . . . whatever that childhood dream you had was. Don’t die with...

about 1 month ago • 1 min read

Hey Reader! Last summer, I headed out for a hike only to derail it seconds later by painfully twisting my ankle. I did all the things you do to heal. Even so, it took months for the swelling to go down. Nearly a year later, the old hurt lets me know it's still there every time it rains. I can't imagine how long it would have taken to heal if I'd tried to ignore it. Yet, all the time, we expect things to heal by ignoring them. When hurts are ignored, they don't heal. They fester. On a micro...

about 1 month ago • 2 min read

Hey Reader! One of my favorite Shakespearean insults is in Twelfth Night. “Sell while you can,” Viola tells Olivia. “You are not for all markets.” I love it because of what happens next: Olivia falls deeper in love with Viola. Rather than getting angry at being told the truth, Olivia feels seen. It is in relationship with others that we experience the most growth. What we see mirrored back to us from others’ eyes informs our vision of who we are and what we can be. One thing we all are is...

about 1 month ago • 1 min read

Hey Reader! When you’re in a flow state, you’re in service to something: inspiration, physical ability, clarity of mind, or jubilation, to name a few. Being in flow, everything seems to connect at just the right time, in the right way, with the right people. It’s a magical state of being. And one that’s elusive. Sometimes becoming aware that you’re in flow is enough to knock you out of that graceful state. Flow states can be natural, assisted, or invoked. And they can be addictive. If there’s...

about 2 months ago • 1 min read

Hey Reader! When life squeezes you, music is the sound your soul makes. There's something about singing that can lift your spirits, even when you're sad. Music also has the power to elevate the audience to different states of being. Twice I felt music lift the scales of everyday experience off my body to let in something divine. Once was at a Bob Dylan concert in Rotterdam twenty years ago. The other time happened the first time I attended a service at Congregation Bet Haverim about ten years...

about 2 months ago • 2 min read

Hey Reader! It happens to the best of us: demands pile up, things get missed, tempers flare, and we feel we’re drowning under the weight of shoulds, woulds, and coulds. In that vulnerable space, when we give up control of our time and our schedule to other people’s demands, it’s easy to lose sight of ourselves. In order to be more efficient and get more done, we stay up too late, work too long, and find ourselves getting bitter. Because we don’t have time for anything we want to do. After a...

2 months ago • 1 min read
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