Being A Whole Person

A very special episode to celebrate my 40th birthday, in which I am interviewed by my friend Lynn O’Brien about some exciting changes to my business and this podcast! We get reflective, and I share what’s in store for my new decade in my coaching and music work. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

I still love the practice of choosing a theme word for the year, to help guide new year intentions and goals. It can be a wonderful filter for what feels intuitively right to do and create, whether in place of or along with more structured planning and goal setting. In this episode I share about my intentions for my 2022 word PLAY, how it turned out in practice, why I’m excited about my new word for 2023, and some tips for choosing your own word of the year. Did you pick a word for 2023, or previous years? What’s been your experience with it? Tag me on Instagram @rebecca_hass (or send me an email), and we can share ideas! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

We don’t have to expect ourselves to constantly be actively producing creative work - creative projects have seasonal cycles, too. But even in the dormancy of winter (literal or metaphorical), you can still feed your creativity, and this phase is just as important as the others. In this episode I share many ways that you can consume, digest, and “fertilize the soil” to pave the way for your next project. What’s feeding your creativity right now? What’s inspiring you? Tag me on Instagram @rebecca_hass, and we can share ideas! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Join us in COMPASSIONATE CREATIVITY COWORKING CLUB: A membership with weekly coworking sessions where you can get a ton done, with the camaraderie of like-minded creative people! Make time to focus on your most important creative work (or get that annoying admin stuff done) - let's practice compassionate productivity together. If you're not ready to commit yet, try your first session for free! Details at coachingforcreativewellness.com/creative-coworking ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ MORE FROM

For many of us, the winter (and holiday) season comes with lower energy but higher expectations, and the dissonance of that can be really challenging. In this episode I invite you to question your assumptions about how much you have to get done, how many priorities you need to have, and how you treat yourself around that. Listen in to learn some tangible ways to do less that don’t involve throwing everything out, and are easy to try! What does doing less look like for you in this season? What’s nourishing you? Tag me on Instagram @rebecca_hass and we can share ideas! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Join us in COMPASSIONATE CREATIVITY COWORKING CLUB: A membership with weekly coworking sessions where you can get a ton done, with the camaraderie of like-minded creative people! Make time to focus on your most important creative work (or get that annoying admin stuff done) - let's practice compassionate productivity together. If you're not ready to commit yet, try your first session for free! Details at coachingforcreativewellness.com

The idea of slowness can be hard to embrace when there are so many outside factors encouraging us to act more urgently, at odds with the creative process and your ability to connect with your own intuition and inner guidance. In this episode I explain why this happens, share some of my experiences and struggles with slowing down, and provide tips and ideas for embracing a slower pace, if that’s what you’re craving. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

As artists, we are constantly practicing and growing, whether we feel negatively or positively about it, or bouncing between both! It can be tricky to continually pursue personal and artistic growth while also believing that you are enough as you are. I share about my journey with self improvement, from reading all the self help books to trusting my inner guidance and everywhere in between, along with tips for embracing incremental and sustainable change and trusting your own wisdom. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

Sharing your art can be nerve-wracking, but it can also be really fun! I talk about some common reasons you might hesitate to share, many great reasons to share, and provide encouragement to make it easier to do. If there's a creative project that you've been on the fence about sharing, I hope this episode gives you the courage to step up and do it! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Speaking of which… CREATIVE SHOW + TELL IS BACK! On Thurs. 11/17 at 2pm PST, I’m hosting a creative show and tell (online) for you to share your works in progress and get feedback and encouragement - it’s free to join and all are welcome!

It can be devastating to experience failures, rejection, and criticism in your creative career, but they don’t have to haunt you forever. I share my favorite practices and journaling prompts to compassionately reframe these difficulties into learning and growth experiences, so you can confidently move forward with your big dreamy creative goals! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ CREATIVE SHOW + TELL IS BACK! On Thurs. 11/17 at 2pm PST, I’m hosting a creative show and tell (online) for you to share your works in progress and get feedback and encouragement - it’s free to join and all are welcome!

Having an experimental mindset in your creative process can be such a helpful tool for inspiring new ideas, supporting you when you get stuck, and persevering through perfectionism. Bringing curiosity to the process also makes it more fun! I share some reflection questions you can ask yourself and some different types of creative experiments to try. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ CREATIVE SHOW + TELL IS BACK! On Thurs. 11/17 at 2pm PST, I’m hosting a creative show and tell (online) for you to share your works in progress and get feedback and encouragement - it’s free to join and all are welcome!

I had a delightful conversation with Megan Ihnen, a mezzo-soprano and “new music force of nature” who wears many hats as a performer, educator, coach/consultant for musicians, and also in arts admin. With these many roles, she is an amazing connector and natural community builder. Tune in to hear us chat about creative placemaking, authentic community building, balancing many roles and having lots of work variety, burnout, being a musician during the pandemic, routines, harmful ideas around “hard work”, and how we can bring our very favorite selves to our creative work. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

When life gets extra busy, it can be hard to stay connected to yourself and your creativity, and to stay rooted in what’s really important to you. I share the practices, journal prompts, and schedule parameters that I’m experimenting with in this busier season, to make sure I’m fueling my energy and creativity in a self-compassionate way. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

There are so many reasons why you might not prioritize creativity, even when it’s really important to you. (Zero judgment here!) I share 10 common obstacles to putting your creative practice first, along with tips and prompts to overcome each one, in a way that works within your full, busy life - let’s embrace the small steps forward! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

If you’ve ever been frustrated by the pressure to “choose one thing” in your creative work, this episode is for you! I had a lovely chat with D'Ana Joi Spencer, a multi-passionate, educator, community builder, and content creator who believes having many passions is a gift, not a burden. She teaches creatives how to make friends with focus, overcome overwhelm, and step into their Multi-Passionate Mastery, a message that I really resonate with. We share a passion for relaxation as the way to restore your creative spark, and celebrating all of the beautiful ways that our various experiences come together to make us who we are, make our creative work what it is, and enable us to support others - the important stuff. As a fellow multi-passionate musician and creative person, I felt really validated by this conversation, and I hope that you will, too! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

I answer a listener's question about why panic, stress, and self-hatred can crop up just as you’re right before the deadline trying to finish a creative project - a familiar scenario for many of us. I give my best tips for understanding why this happens (it’s not because there’s something wrong with you!) and how to work through it with self-compassion. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

I’m hosting another Creative Show + Tell on 7/27 (usually only part of the Compassionate Creativity Club Creator Lab membership), and you’re invited to join in for free! Come and share what you're working on, big or small! ⁣ Especially if it's small, if it’s not finished, if you're feeling like it's not worth sharing yet - that's exactly what I want you to share, because sharing the small stuff is how we build the courage to share the big stuff when it's done!⁣ We often like to share our creations when they're finished, because we tend to feel more proud, like they’re more ready for the world then.⁣ Creator Lab and this Show + Tell will be a safe spot to:⁣ Share how things are going⁣ Get some feedback from me and a small group of friendly folks⁣ Get some encouragement so that you can keep moving forward with excitement! ⁣ Show and Tell was always one of my favorite days in elementary school, and it’ll be happening monthly in Compassionate Creativity Club! ⁣ It’s like a garden, a playground, and a magica

It can feel impossible to carve out time for creative rituals, gathering ideas, and big-picture thinking, when they’re important, but not urgent, and you have a million other things to accomplish. Following your curiosity and sense of wonder is not a waste of time! Listen in to hear about my most important habit that supports my creativity, how I fit it into my schedule without feeling unproductive, and how you can spark more creativity in your art and life. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

Have you ever taken a break from your creative practice and had a hard time getting back in the habit again? Whether you've taken a long or short break, if it's feeling tough to restart again, or to regain creative momentum, it’s not hopeless! In this episode you’ll learn some easy ways to get unstuck from the resistance and self-compassionately begin again (and again) as many times as needed. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

If you’re tired of feeling stuck, spinning your wheels, and not moving forward with that creative project you've been planning on starting forever, this episode is for you. Often we wait for “just the right time” to start, which can actually defer the project further, but we can create that fresh start anytime we decide to! Listen in for some tips on how to get started, so you can get that creative momentum going in a supportive and self-compassionate way. Also, if you need some encouragement, you can always send me a note. I'm always here for little pep talks, and I'm rooting for you! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

We often hear people talk about trusting the creative process, but leaning into trust can benefit us in so many interconnected ways besides just when we’re in active creation mode. In this episode I explore all of the ways where trust can benefit our creativity, help you feel like a whole person, and offer tips to help you cultivate trust in yourself. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

Procrastination can hold us back from doing the creative work we’re most passionate about, but it’s not just laziness or a time management problem. In this episode I talk about my history with procrastination, how I learned to be more self-compassionate when it happens, and share helpful tips to help you use self-compassion to overcome procrastination. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ JOIN US FOR CREATIVE SHOW + TELL! On Thurs. May 26 at 4pm, I’m hosting a creative show and tell (online) for you to share your works in progress and get feedback and encouragement - it’s free to join and all are welcome!