Ep 10 - How Therapy Can Help You Become a Better Storyteller

The Creative Cut Up

In this episode, it got real with Felicia, Dria, and Georgette having a vulnerable discussion around navigating their personal sh*t in therapy and how our mental wellbeing is connected to our art-making. We’re clear that sitting with the uncomfortable emotions helps with the work we create, but that the self-work ain’t easy. We cut about our entry points into therapeutic practices and how therapy helped give us a deeper perspective.
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A breakdown of our chat:
(00:04:53) Felicia’s entry point into therapy
(00:09:31) How life and therapy opened Georgette up as an artist
(00:13:44) The ability to sit in our emotions and feelings to transfer it to the page
(00:14:10) Dria’s experience seeing the importance and connection between therapy and art
(00:14:23) Writing from your scars and not your wounds
(00:15:53) How Felicia channeled the relationship with her father in her work
(00:18:44) How therapy helps to give us different perspectives and context
(00:21:13) How self-work made us sensitive and appreciative of other artists’ work
(00:22:36) Self work making us hypersensitive to other people’s sh**
(00:23:53) Needing to refine tools that were formed during a time of trauma
(00:25:58) The amount of vulnerability in the writer’s room
(00:26:43) Being able to work through shame and traumatic experiences
(00:28:10) Artists being put on a pedestal and disrespected at the same time
(00:29:15) New tools we’re using to increase groundedness and be more embodied
(00:33:14) Knowing when there’s a break in the healing work
(00:34:19) Our How We Create segment where Felicia, Dria, and Georgette share things inspiring them this week
HOW WE CREATE Recommendations
Felicia: Percival Everett + his visual artistry (also author of Erasure, the novel in which the film American Fiction was based)
Dria: DJ sets
Georgette: Synthesis drag performance show in Brooklyn
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This podcast is a production of The Create Daily. It was produced by Georgette Pierre and executive produced by Felicia Pride. It was edited by Wize Grazette of the Indie Creative Network.
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