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The Art of Enough

By: Jay Sullivan
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  • Are you always climbing the highest mountains? Always putting yourself into stressful situations that require all of your skill, all of your determination, all of your energy just to get over the top and back down onto level ground? And when you get back to level ground, do you quickly start the anxiety provoking climb allover again? Are you a perfectionist in some area of your life? You're parenting, your relationships, your work, your art? Where no matter how hard you try, no matter how muchprogress you make, it just doesn't feel like you've done enough?The Art of Enough is a personal, transformative art making project. The process is much like my previous works where I used a multi-disciplinary, psychology driven creative process to become aware of, and then transcend, limiting patterns of emotions and behavior. Creative process is core of my work; it’s a place where I seek freedom and spontaneity through acting, movement, voice exercises, therapeutic photography, video techniques, writing explorations and mindfulness practices.The Art of Enough resulted in a series of podcasts, photographic artworks and personal psychological and emotional change. I have been able to slow down, stop a compulsive need to always “climb the highest mountains”, and most importantly been able to find moments when I consciously decide to say “no” in situations where I previously was subconsciously driven to say “yes”. In many ways, it was about becoming more present and making more conscious choices, instead of always reacting to situations around me based on some inner voice that commanded me to “do more” or to “be better”. I have done enough and now, in many cases, if I choose to do more it is because I believe it will result in more pleasure, more freedom and more connection with those around me. http://jsullivanartist.com/
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Episodes
  • Re-Remembered

    Re-Remembered
    May 9 2021

    Re-Remembered is a story about fathers and sons, baseball, and mental illness.  It is in the form of a one act play that describes how I used a creative, photographic process to reconnect with my estranged and long-deceased father.
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    40 mins
  • Directions to Enough

    Directions to Enough
    May 16 2019

    This podcast is an appendix of the previous four podcasts, containing over 20 simple guidelines that can help you in your life, art practice or in some cases, both.   

     This podcast is in two sections: 

     Section 1 – Good Enough Guidelines – For anyone, whether you are an artist or not, who wants to slow down, stop being an overachiever, and enjoy the moment instead of always climbing the highest mountains mountains.  

    Section 2 -  Creative Process Guidelines- For those who are interested in creative process and especially how it can facilitate psychological and emotional change. 

    Note that this podcast has titled chapters that can be accessed through the podcast player you might to look at those first and jump to the places that most interest you.  
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    30 mins
  • Tea with Demons

    Tea with Demons
    May 2 2019

    Tea with Demons explains how I use creative process to transcend the feeling of not being enough.  This podcast explains two steps:

    1) making peace with negative, inner voices 

    2) creating new, more empowering voices.     

    This podcast features interviews with playwright and author, Jean Claude Van Itallie and therapist, Bob Szita and the work of self-help author, Tony Robbins.
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    22 mins
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