BEST OF -Becoming More Creative Through Your Intuition with Esther Loopstra
Awakening With Grace — Creativity & Consciousness
Release Date: 03/14/2023
Spirituality Is Not Self-Improvement
Awakening With Grace — Creativity & Consciousness
What if spirituality isn't another self-improvement project? We live in a culture that tells us there's always something to fix, optimize, or improve about ourselves. But what if spirituality isn't about becoming a better version of yourself? What if it's about remembering who you've always been? In this episode, I explore why spirituality and self-improvement are not the same thing, how hustle culture has quietly shaped modern spiritual practice, and why my own journey has felt less like optimizing myself and more like remembering and reconnecting to my original nature. In this episode: •...
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Returning to Your Original Magic with Sylvia Wes
Awakening With Grace — Creativity & Consciousness
There comes a point on the spiritual path when hiding parts of yourself becomes more painful than the fear of letting people see who you really are. For Sylvia Wes, that meant bringing together two worlds she'd kept separate for years: a successful career as a science-based dog trainer and a lifelong spiritual practice of witchcraft centered on intuition, ritual, and magic. In this conversation, Sylvia shares the journey that led her to found Sisters of Alchemy and what it was like to step out of the "broom closet" and into a more authentic life. We explore intuition, ritual, energetic...
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Are You Seeing Yourself Clearly?
Awakening With Grace — Creativity & Consciousness
What if the way you see yourself isn't actually the truth? So much of how we see ourselves is shaped by our conditioning, our achievements, our fears, and the stories we've carried for years. But spiritual awakening isn't about becoming someone new. It's about expanding your awareness and learning to see yourself from a higher perspective. In this episode, we explore what awakening really means, why I believe we're here to integrate our human and spiritual selves, and how to see yourself more accurately by looking through the lens of higher consciousness. By the end of the episode, you'll have...
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How Face Reading Reveals Your Spirit with Dr. Jen Ng
Awakening With Grace — Creativity & Consciousness
What if your face is a map of your energy? In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Jennifer Ng, a doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine, facial acupuncturist, herbalist, and Chinese face reader. Dr. Jen blends her background in aesthetics with the deeper principles of Chinese medicine, helping people understand the connection between health, energy, and the face. Through practices like facial acupuncture, face reading, and other traditional healing modalities, her work focuses on treating internal imbalances first and helping people become the most aligned and vibrant version of themselves....
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Karma, Dharma, and the Creative Channel
Awakening With Grace — Creativity & Consciousness
What if karma isn't punishment? What if it's a curriculum? In this episode, we explore two spiritual concepts that often get flattened in modern culture: karma and dharma. We look at how the patterns we carry shape our lives, why the same lessons seem to repeat themselves, and what it means to move toward the fullest expression of who we are. We also explore the relationship between healing karma and creation, and how every pattern we clear opens the channel for creativity, expression, and meaningful work. Because karma and dharma aren't separate from creation. They are part of the path that...
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Fear Is the Portal to Awakening
Awakening With Grace — Creativity & Consciousness
Fear is often treated as something to overcome, avoid, or get rid of. But what if fear isn't a sign you're on the wrong path? What if fear is actually the portal to your transformation? In this episode, I share why nearly every major expansion in my life began with a decision that felt terrifying — from leaving science for art school, to starting a business, to stepping publicly into my spiritual work. Fear isn't the obstacle. It's the signal that you're standing at the edge of something that is truly meant for you. I talk about the difference between fear and true danger, how to recognize...
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Following the Breadcrumbs: A Spiritual Awakening
Awakening With Grace — Creativity & Consciousness
Have you ever looked back and realized that one small decision changed the entire direction of your life? In this episode, I'm sharing how my own awakening unfolded - one whisper, one breadcrumb, and one courageous choice at a time. I talk about what it looks like to start listening to yourself instead of everyone else's expectations, how the universe speaks through whispers and breadcrumbs, and why the thing you're most afraid to do is often where your next stage of growth is waiting. This is the story of how spirituality, intuition, and creativity came together to completely reshape my life...
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It's Always Been More Than Creativity
Awakening With Grace — Creativity & Consciousness
Welcome back. After three years away, I'm returning with a lot to share, including a new name for the show, an honest look at what I've been up to, and where we're headed from here. Here's what I know to be true: creativity and spirituality have always been the same thing. After 20 years of building a career as an animal photographer, author, and creator, I'm done keeping those two worlds separate. On Awakening With Grace, we're going all in on consciousness, creation, and the unseen world of energy, metaphysics and more. In this episode, I open up about the single scariest thing I've...
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Awakening With Grace — Creativity & Consciousness
Awakening With Grace — Creativity & Consciousness
Consciousness, Creation & Connection. Awakening With Grace is a show about the spiritual dimensions of creation, and what it means to bring your most meaningful work into the world. Hosted by energy intuitive, acclaimed animal photographer, and author Grace Chon, this podcast explores the intersection of creativity, spirituality, and the unseen. Through solo episodes and conversations with teachers, healers, and creators, you'll discover that the awakened life is also the creative one. Awaken and create. Transmit through delight. Leave life more fertile than you found it. If you've been...
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Lesson 84 - Faith, Love, and Developing Trust in Ourselves in the Creative Process with Esther Maloney
Awakening With Grace — Creativity & Consciousness
This week on Creativity School, I’m talking to Esther Maloney, a multidisciplinary artist, educator and mama. She’s the creator of award winning films, an author, a visual artist, and the founding director of Illumine Media as well as a founding member of the Creative Sovereignty Lab. Esther also facilitates The Vitality Collective and Making Sessions, two 10-week, online workshops offered for those ready to make powerful shifts in their creative work. Esther’s work is rooted in the belief that our creative life is inseparable from our spiritual life, and she shares how to begin...
info_outlineThis week’s episode is all about HOW TO BE MORE CREATIVE! How to tap into it, how to follow the creative process, and how to feed your creative spirit by listening to your intuition.
My guest today, Esther Loopstra, is a prolific artist and illustrator, specializing in food and travel, hand-lettering, and surface design. Her work has been used for print ads, editorials, books, stationery products, and textiles and her clients include Target, Frito Lay, Google, Jo Ann Fabrics, Eddie Bauer, and American Greetings.
Esther’s insatiable curiosity drew her to learn as much as she could about the creative process, eventually leading her to teach people how to discover their innate creativity. She believes everyone is creative and is passionate about helping others find and express the creativity that resides inside of them. In this episode, she shares all about her insights as a creativity expert and teacher.
Mentioned in this episode:
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How Esther became an illustrator, burned out, and eventually discovered her intuition
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How creativity has a whole range of pathways and is something innate in all of us
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Exercises to develop our intuition, trust it, and act on it
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How to quiet your inner critic
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Why we need to feed our creative spirit
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Overcoming the fear of what people are going to think and the fear of sharing our work
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Giving ourselves the freedom to make mistakes
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How to find your passion using your intuition
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Open mode and closed mode - the two modes we need for the creative process
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The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron
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