Resistance Rx 2:
Magic Mojo For Mucho Creative Momentum
You might be a procrastinator.
When it’s time to work on your creative dreams suddenly the dishes need washing and you’re struck with the urge to scroll through your Facebook feed again.
You might just be too busy.
You carefully carve out time to work on your creative dreams but find that time quickly gets filled up with more important things to do and you just can’t get to your creative dream.
You might be waiting for the right time.
After the kids start school. When your work is less crazy. When you have more money.
You might be telling yourself that you’re too lazy…
Maybe you have all the time you need you’re just not sitting down and getting to work and you don’t really have a reason.
We all have a lot of stories to explain why we’re not getting to work. But underneath all of this is the simple fact that it’s hard to get started.
Starting is brutal!
In 2012 my dear friend Andrea Schroeder was starting a new series of You Tube videos and got all tangled up in how hard it was to start. So she made this genius video about how hard it is to get started.
Getting started is brutal because there is this other step you have to take before you can step onto the path of joyful creative productivity. It’s called: facing your resistance.
Procrastination, busy-ness, waiting for the “right time” and laziness are all symptoms of avoiding your resistance.
It’s totally normal to want to avoid your resistance because your resistance contains all the hidden reasons you have for not starting, things like:
- What if I do my best and work my ass off and still fail at this?
- What if I find out I’m not good enough?
- What if it’s just too hard and I have to give up?
- What if I succeed beyond my wildest dreams and then it gets all stressful?
- What if I’m not really ready for success?
When you see how painful these questions can be, it makes sense to avoid starting so you can avoid that pain.
Except, of course, that means you leave those questions, unanswered and unresolved, floating around in your inner world.
HAVING these questions and fears is not a problem. We all HAVE them.
But LEAVING THEM UNRESOLVED does become a problem – this changes your perception of yourself and the world, dulls your possibilities and shrinks your dreams.
Your Creative Dream needs you to be brave.
It’s asking you to drop your story about why you’re not starting.
It’s asking you to face your fear and step onto the path.
I know – this is brutal. But you don’t have to do it alone.
Introducing Resistance Rx: Magic Mojo For Mucho Creative Momentum
My dearest and most AMAZINGLY brilliance personified and hugest heart ever creative friend Andrea Schroeder and I created Resistance Rx because we believe that the world needs people like to to be MORE engaged with your creative dreams. We believe that this is what will heal the world.
Here we are in Oakland, California last Spring on the morning of the first Resistance Rx:
How Resistance Rx:
Magic Mojo For Mucho Creative Momentum
will work:
We start with a live creative playdate where we share the Resistance Rx. This will be about an hour long.
Then you’ll have two hours to practice your Resistance Rx. You’ll do with helpful tips and ideas from us, plus during this time you can stay in touch with everyone in our private Facebook group. Chris and I will be there to answer your questions and cheer you on.
Then we’ll come back for another hour together to talk about how that went and coach you through any issues that came up as you practiced the Resistance Rx.
You’ll leave the party with a special guided journal and colouring book for meeting and working with your resistance so you can keep exploring all of this on your own.
Plus the Facebook group will stay open so you can connect with other Resistance Rx-ers.
In Resistance Rx we show you how to cure your resistance – with play and imagination and colour and love and gentleness and healing.
The cure means you’re going to stop letting your resistance have power over you.
Which means you stop stopping, when it comes to your creative dreams.
And you start starting to bring more creative projects and dreams to life.
But that’s not all!
The process of curing your resistance also shakes loose the gem that is hidden inside your resistance: a healing.
See, your resistance formed around a “thing that is asking for healing” and the process of curing your resistance brings you into a place of being able to bring healing to this part of you.
It’s so beautiful it makes the pain and annoyance of resistance seem worth it.
By the end you’ll probably actually thank your resistance for showing up and playing with you.
The Resistance Rx: cures all forms of resistance.
If you have a specific project you’re in resistance to starting – bring it and we’ll work with that.
If you have a more general issue like you know you procrastinate or you’ve been avoiding your creative dreams and you’re not sure why – then we’ll work with your overall relationship to resistance.
Either way the Resistance Rx will show you ways of working with resistance so you can get to the other side: gleeful creative flow.
The Resistance Rx can be taken as often as you like. No chance of overdose.
If you were a part of the first Resistance Rx then you know exactly how magic it is.
Well – there is more of that magic for you in Resistance Rx 2.
While the process will be the same as the first time, the experience will be different. You’ll be meeting your resistance on a new level, in a new way.
The more often you do this, the more gifts you find in it.
So this is what you get:
An inspiring and enlightening creative playdate where we share with you the secrets of the Resistance Rx so you can start curing your resistance, stop stopping yourself and get into that gleeful creative flow.
Two magical hours of practicing the Resistance Rx within the supportive atmosphere of the group so if you get stuck on anything we’ll be there with you to help you through it. (Plus you’ll learn so much from watching us help other people through their stuck places)
A helpful and healing creative playdate where we un-pack what happened for you as you practiced your Resistance Rx and coach you through any rough spots in your process. (We want to make sure you leave Resistance Rx knowing how to use the cure by yourself any time you need it)
A fun guided journal and coloring book for exploring your relationship with resistance so you can keep getting better at curing it.
(The playdates are recorded so you don’t have to be there live and you can use them again and again . The videos will be available for you to watch online for 2 months after our playdate)
About your guides for Resistance Rx:
Andrea Schroeder
Owner of Creative Dream Incubator
I mentor creative people with big (and little!) dreams.
I believe that your dream is your soul calling you into alignment with yourself.
I’ve devoted my life to helping brilliant creative geniuses (like you!) live gorgeously with their dreams — with spiritual practices & personal development techniques that feel like magic potions, tea parties and creative playdates.
You can read more about me right here.
Chris Zydel
Head Creative Goddess of Creative Juices Arts
Chris Zydel, AKA the Wild Heart Queen, is head creative goddess at Creative Juices Arts. She has over 38 years of experience as a compassionate creativity guide and an unshakeable faith in the power of creativity to heal hearts and change lives. She knows deep in her bones that everyone is deeply, wonderfully and gloriously creative and is on a relentlessly love-soaked mission to prove that to the world. She performs this magic by providing nurturing and joy-filled creative sanctuaries overflowing with encouragement, permission and trust in the sacred energy of play and creativity that lives inside of us all.
Learn all about Chris on her site, right here.
