How to Embrace Change: Using Nature as Your Guide
The Creatrix Journey
In this week's episode, I'm going be talking about embracing change and getting inspiration from nature. All of us face change at some time in our lives, it can be a difficult experience for many people. We are creatures of habit and tend to resist anything that disrupts our routine. However, change is absolutely necessary for growth and development. Without change, we would remain stagnant and unable to move on or progress. Change can take many forms, a major life event like job loss, breakup, divorce, or simply something like a change in routine. And many of us find it hard to cope and...
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Connecting to the Chakras of the Earth with Medicine Woman Louise Carron Harris
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In today’s episode, I am absolutely delighted to welcome an amazing guest Her name is Louise Carron Harris. She is a mentor, teacher, medicine woman and author of Awakening the Western Woman and Earth Chakra Shaman. We discuss Louise’s soul story, how AI is affecting our creativity and the chakras of the Earth. Here are the highlights: (01:14) What Louise is currently doing (04:48) Louise’s soul story (09:07) On being triggered when someone copies your work (16:33) The problem with AI-created content (23:05) Louise’s first book ‘Awakening in the Western Woman’ (25:12) The...
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Finding Your Own Creatrix Zone with Dawn Wright
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Today, Claire welcomes Dawn Wright to the Creatrix Journey podcast. Dawn is a yoga teacher, coach and mentor. She organises retreats and events and loves nature, walking and wild swimming. They discuss Dawn’s love of walking and how that has shaped her life. Dawn shares her favourite walk in Nepal and how getting outside can not only help ground you but can also ignite your creativity. Here are the highlights: (02:29) When Dawn first started to practice yoga (05:18) Dawn’s early love of swimming (06:29) Walking in France (11:46) Dawn’s favourite walk (15:19) How Daven...
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How the Spring Equinox can Inspire Creativity
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This week I'm going to be talking about the Spring Equinox. As a writer, I'm always on the lookout for inspiration and new ideas to fuel my creativity, and as I walked through the seasons and let them inspire my creativity, it has given me such a powerful connection to nature and its cycles on top of also doing moon journaling when it's New Moon and Full Moon. I've also got in touch with my own cycles of creativity and when I have high energy and low energy, which has really helped the creative process as well. So what better time to harness the power of the universe than during the...
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Why Women are Important Every Day of the Year
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This week, I'm going to be talking about International Women's Day, but also why I think women should be celebrated every day of the year. I’m going to explain a bit about the history behind International Women's Day and really why we still need it, but also really the theme running behind it that I think women need to support each other every single day. Here are the highlights: (01:39) When International Women’s Day was first celebrated and why (02:58) It will take 100 years to close the global gender wage gap (03:55) Gender inequality has a negative impact on society as a whole...
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The Power of Women’s Circles
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Women and men have been circling and sitting in circles for thousands of years. Women in particular would come together during certain Luna and menstrual cycles throughout the month or for special events throughout the year. Women's circles are a brilliant way to tap into the power of sisterhood and foster connection, and healing. And so this week I'm going to be talking about my own experience of creating circles. Here are the highlights: (02:17) Whatever happens in the circle, stays in the circle (03:48) It's been an honour and a gift to be able to host these spaces for people...
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How to Find Your Writing Voice
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This week, I'm going to be talking about finding your writing voice. This is something that's deeply fascinated me as a professional writer for over 20 years, how does that voice change as we progress and grow as humans? Also, how the skills that we need and the way we need to express ourselves change as our own businesses or the work that we do changes too.That's certainly been the case for me. So what is a writing voice? It's what keeps readers coming back. It's what makes you stand out from other writers, whether you are doing it for yourself or you are using it to share your words...
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Forest Immersion & Why It’s Good For You
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Today I'm going to be talking about the benefits of spending time in woodlands and forests. This could be called forest immersion, forest bathing or shinrin-yoku, which literally means forest bath. It was the Japanese who first coined this phrase in 1982, and it means bathing in the forest atmosphere or taking in the forest with all of your senses. If you are interested in nature connection and spending time in nature, you may have noticed a massive increase in people offering this as a form of therapy, ecotherapy, or simply just to take stressed-out people into nature to make them feel better...
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Why Journaling is Good for You and Your Writing
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I am a massive fan of journaling for a variety of reasons, it's really good for mental well-being, and it's a great writing practice to help improve your writing and also your general well-being and mood every day. Processing thoughts and feelings out of your head and onto paper can help you become more expressive in the way that you write. Journal writing is a form of self-expression and self-reflection. It's a way to organise and document your thoughts, feelings, and experiences. It can be a really creative practice and a powerful tool for self-discovery. Many people use journal writing as a...
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Writing with the Seasons & Unlock Your Creativity this Winter
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In this episode, I'm going be exploring writing with the seasons and how to unlock your creativity this winter. The winter season can be an inspiring and productive time for writers, whether you're a seasoned writer or just starting out. Writing with the seasons can help you really tap into your innate creativity. It can open your eyes to new possibilities and also help you explore different perspectives. Writing with the seasons can really improve your writing and also connect you back to nature and your true soul's calling. At this time of year, we have a special celebration, a...
info_outlineThis week, I'm going to be talking about how to find your inner storyteller. Anyone that's been listening to this podcast for a while knows that this is a topic I'm really passionate about. It’s the reason why I became a journalist in the first place. Being able to tell other people's stories has been really important to me and now it's really important to me that people find their own voice and share their powerful stories and words and wisdom with the world, which is what the Creatrix Journey is all about. One of the things we need to do as creatrixes is to step into our power by sharing powerful stories of transformation, and also the ups and downs of our lives. So that people get to understand the work that we do and why we are here, our mission at this time and how we can help other people.
Here are the highlights:
(01:35) Sometimes people get stuck in fear and procrastination
(02:43) Why is sharing my story important?
(03:26) What actions would you like people to take after they’ve listened to your story?
(04:17) Everyone loves a great story
(05:10) Personal anecdotes can be really powerful
(05:46) Use language which your readers will understand
(06:58) Do not be afraid to share your story
Connect with Claire:
To find out more about the Creatrix Journey go to:
The Six-week awaken the creatrix course: https://creatrixjourney.com/online-course-in-creative-writing/
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Meet the host:
Claire Winter is a journalist, ICF accredited coach, Nordic Walking instructor, speaker, and podcaster who loves being out in nature. She is passionate about sharing the healing medicine of walking and writing with people.
She wants to make an impact helping women to connect back to nature, ignite their creativity and share their stories and light with the world. She is on a mission to build a movement of women around the world who create the time and space to walk, write, journal, and create.
Studying Social Anthropology as her first degree Claire has always been fascinated by ritual and ceremony to mark important moments in life. Now a regular columnist for the Female CEO magazine, she started her career at ITN and has worked in radio, TV, online and in print.
Claire truly believes you can walk your way to happiness. She is a dedicated Earl Grey tea drinker and often spends her weekends going on long walks or paddle boarding with her family, friends and dog Leo.