On the creative journey, it's easy to get lost, but don't worry, you'll lift off.

Sometimes you just need a creative pep talk.

There is a lot of talk about the mental health benefits that come with being creative,

making art, making stuff.

But I haven't heard a lot of people talk about how creativity, when you have the wrong

relationship to it, can actually hurt your mental health.

It can be a net negative.

And if you have got to a place where your creativity and your relationship to it feels toxic,

like you can't remember why you used to love this, why it used to add joy and a meditative

practice and beauty to your life. And now it feels like a nag or it feels like it's just

mess with your identity. If you have lost the love of creating, today's episode, I think, will really help you. I am interviewing

Samantha, Dionne Baker, the author and illustrator of the book, Draw Your Adventures and Draw Your

Day. And we have a great chat. There's just so much to take from this one. And I think it will

help you find that joy and

relationship to your creativity that can make it more of a positive impact on your well-being,

not just in your personal life, but also in your professional relationship with your creativity,

if you've got that going on. We talk about falling in love with creativity. We talk about

having more ideas. We talk about how to create low stakes, low pressure creativity that allows

for your best ideas to come out. At the end, I'm going to come back. We talk about this at the

end of the chat. It's a creative call to adventure called the unchosen adventure, and I'll come back and just

kind of put a cap on that. But this idea, I feel is a real, not just creative game changer,

but a life changer. It is a way to embrace the difficult things in your life with your creativity, to create,

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