Creativity Connects Us to Hope

Let the Verse Flow: Personal Growth Thru a Creative Lens

Hope is an active state of mind that doesn’t negate the sadness, unjustness, or challenges of the world, but seeks to help us persevere to affect the world positively. One of the most important avenues for facilitating and cultivating hope is creativity.

Our creativity connects us to hope by offering a conduit to the special talents we have to offer the world as we connect (one person to another). When we give to ourselves through creative self-care we have enough optimism, emotional equilibrium, and energy to spread hope, and then move about the world to build a common experience of hope.

How are you cultivating and sharing your hope? Have you considered how creative self-care might be the engine and vehicle to do it? In this episode, I provide a list of creative self-care activities to spark your thoughts. I hope that whatever creative, innovative, loving project you explore will spread outward in a hopeful path to impact the world. I believe in the 1:1 connection – one person does make a difference.

Also, in this episode, learn about Harvard’s Flourishing Program and two practical ways to cultivate hope in your life, and find out how Amanda Gorman helps me stay hopeful for the future.

I’m feeling hopeful today, and have extra that I want to share. Welcome to my reflections from the bright side of the beat.

Want to reengage with yourself and put creative self-care back on your to-do list? Head over to my website: lettheverseflow.com and sign up for my free newsletter, the Me-Time Mixtape. Three times per month, I’ll send you 3 essential, hand-curated links/resources on creative self-care tips, tools, and strategies.

Poem: Ever Hopeful
Music: (My thanks to all the musicians who make incredible music and share it with the world. All music for my podcast is sourced and licensed for use via Soundstripe.)

Songs in this episode: Keeping You Close by Nu Alkemi$t; Slide by GEMM; Flash by Lunareh; Pyaar Kee Seemaen by Cast of Characters
Resources: Human Flourishing Program; Harvard University's Human Flourishing blog;
Amanda Gorman; What We Carry (poem recitation by Amanda Gorman, accompanied by cellist Jan Vogler

LTVF Season 2 Music Playlist: Check out the songs that inspire me, and connect with artists from many genres who add to our collective, human soundtrack.
Journal Prompts to Inspire Hopefulness:
1) How has a creative self-care activity helped inspire your feelings of hopefulness?

2) Write about a public figure or meaningful person in your life who inspires you to feel hopeful. What is it about them that makes you feel this way?

3) How can you pay your hopefulness forward? Write about 1 or 2 ways that you want to spread your hope to a person or organization, then go out and connect with them.

Prefer to read this episode? Read the complete episode in blog format here: https://www.lettheverseflow.com