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Have you been feeling a quiet shift in your creativity lately?
Like the way you’ve always created suddenly feels too tight, too familiar, or no longer fully “you”?
This episode is for the season when your creative identity begins to evolve — long before you have the words for it.

💛 Three Beautiful Reasons to Listen

1. You’ll understand why your old style or process may suddenly feel “too small” — and why that’s a powerful sign of growth.
2. You’ll learn the four core pillars that support true creative evolution — permission, curiosity, playful expression, and identity work.
3. You’ll discover how to reconnect with a creative flow that feels timeless, limitless, and deeply aligned with who you are now.

• Why your creative identity naturally evolves over time
• Signs you’ve outgrown your current creative identity
• How soulful art-making mirrors inner transformation
• Reconnecting with your creative heart after burnout or stagnation
• Creative empowerment for women through intuitive expression
• How permission and curiosity open your next creative chapter
• Why playful exploration matters more than perfect technique
• How to align your art with your current emotional truth
• Spiritual awakening for midlife women through creativity
• Healing through art and creativity during life transitions

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What happens when creativity becomes a living myth, a spiritual practice, and a portal into something bigger than you? In this powerful conversation, singer songwriter and multidisciplinary artist Monelise shares how she wrote 100 songs in a year, created her own musical oracle deck, and uses ritual and spirituality to stay connected, grounded, and wildly inspired.

Benefits of listening

• Learn how creativity and spiritual awakening are deeply intertwined in a practical, accessible way
• Hear the behind the scenes of writing 100 songs in a year, and what actually happens during the messy middle
• Discover how ritual, intention and personal storytelling can strengthen your creative empowerment journey

Key takeaways

• Creativity as a spiritual practice for healing, empowerment and resilience
• The feminine energy of creativity and why it matters for women
• How ritual, grounding and intention support artistic expression
• Understanding the messy middle of creative work and why consistency matters more than inspiration
• The role of storytelling and archetypes in creative empowerment for women
• Why witnessing your own art is just as powerful as sharing it
• Using creativity as a portal for personal transformation
• How to connect to your soul through creativity and everyday rituals

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A love letter to the wise centre within. This minisode invites you to rest, listen, and remember the quiet truth that blooms even in life’s weeds.

3 benefits of listening

• Feel soothed and steady as you reconnect with your inner heart space.
• Hear the gentle signals of your heart and let them guide simple, loving boundaries.
• Receive a poetic reminder that you are already worthy, already connected to purpose.

Episode summary
This piece honours the way the heart blooms in the mess and the mundane, not only in polished moments. It reminds us the heart never asks for perfection. It whispers us back to what is real and steadies the nervous system with a soft, moonlit calm. From that calm, the centre becomes a seedbed for desire and dream, the first spark of creative fire.

The poem also frames the heart as compass and sanctuary. Rest and courage live side by side. Whispers can become sudden clarity that moves us into action. At its core, this is about rightful belonging. Meaning, love, and service are named as birthright. Rooted in heart wisdom, our lives become an honest bloom, grown in real soil, guided by inner light.

Reflection question
Which part of your heart’s bloom is most alive right now — the soft petals of rest, the wild spark of courage, the tender seeds of desire, or the gentle boundary that keeps the bugs at bay — and what one small action today will honour it?

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When life feels heavy, you do not need to do more. You need a softer way to come home. This gentle invitation guides you to make a tiny visual poem that honours rest and lets your heart lead again.

3 benefits of listening

• Create steadiness with a simple, soothing art ritual you can finish in one sitting.
• Hear your heart’s quiet truth and honour it with a kind, clear boundary.
• Reduce overwhelm by choosing one small action that supports real rest.

Episode summary
This month we lean into rest and reducing the load. Sam shares how a tender family season has called her to do less, soften plans, and let the heart be the compass. From that place she invites you to create a tiny visual poem — a soft circle with gentle marks and a single whispered line — as a personal sanctuary on paper.

You will be guided to move slowly, add a few simple symbols, and write one honest line like “Today I choose less” or “It is safe to follow my heart.” To close, you will reflect on what you can cancel this week and one small action that truly supports your energy now.

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When life feels heavy, you don’t need to push harder — you need a softer way home. This gentle soul activation guides you to root into the earth, return to the luminous centre of your heart, and let that sanctuary spill into your home.

3 benefits of listening

• Soothe your nervous system with slow grounding and breath, so your body feels safe and steady.
• Hear your heart’s quiet desires beneath the noise, and honour them with simple, loving boundaries.
• Reimagine your home as a haven that supports rest, clarity, and the season you are in.

Episode summary
This guided meditation is an invitation to reduce the load and meet yourself with care. You’ll be led to imagine ancient roots anchoring you into the earth, then to the soft inner sanctuary of your heart where self-love grows in presence, not perfection. From there, you’ll ask your heart what it truly desires and allow the answers to arrive as images, feelings, or a deep knowing.

The practice closes by extending that inner calm into your physical spaces — bedroom, kitchen, favourite corners — so your home becomes an honest reflection of what you need now. It’s a tender reset for times when you or your family are carrying a lot, reminding you that rest is allowed and you are already worthy.

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This episode is part of a new format I’m trying out.

I want to make this space more about soulful, real-time creative connection.

So in addition to a monthly guest episode, each month, we'll be exploring a soulful theme and guiding you through a mini soulful creative Ritual, featuring 3 components:

• starting with a soul activation meditation,
• an invitation for you to try a soulful art-based prompt
• and a poetry minisode.

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Genius isn’t a label you earn, it’s a practice you live today. In this conversation with Genius Lab founder and Everyday Genius Show host Taryn Voget, we explore how creativity becomes the fuel for everyday genius, real confidence, and meaningful purpose you choose for yourself.

3 reasons to listen

• Discover Taryn’s simple genius formula and how to apply it in daily life to unlock ideas and momentum.
• Learn how creative action builds genuine confidence and helps you channel better work with less strain.
• Reframe “purpose” so you stop waiting for a cosmic memo and start living what lights you up now.

Key takeaways

• Genius is a practice: passion + strategy + channelling.
• Follow curiosity; passion lifts your state and ideas.
• Iterate your strategy; small experiments compound.
• Trust flow moments; take the next clear step.
• Confidence grows from creative reps and small wins.
• Purpose is chosen; live what lights you up now.
• Creativity connects you to something bigger (flow/“quantum field”)
• Balancing the masculine bias with intentional feminine creativity

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What happens inside us when we silence our truth? In this poetry minisode, I share an original poem, Truth’s Hollow, and reflect on how it feels in the body when we betray our inner knowing — and the courage it takes to honour it.

3 Benefits of Listening

• Experience a heartfelt original poem exploring the weight of silenced truth.
• Reflect on how disconnection from your inner truth shows up in your own life.
• Receive a powerful reflection question to help you take one small step towards honouring your truth.

Reflection for You
Where in your life do you notice the hollow feeling of holding back your truth, and what would it look like to give your soul’s true voice a little more space today?

Key Takeaways

• Ignoring or suppressing truth creates a hollow, restless feeling within.
• The body often reveals when we are out of alignment with our soul.
• Courage and honesty are required to reclaim integrity with ourselves.
• Poetry can be a powerful mirror for the soul’s quiet voice.
• Reflection is the first step toward honouring and expressing your truth.

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When life feels busy and self-doubt creeps in, it’s easy to lose touch with what’s deeply true. In this episode, I invite you to reconnect with your inner truth through the nurturing container of soulful art-making.

3 Benefits of Listening

• Explore how soulful creativity can help you safely honour and express your inner truth.
• Learn how I used intentional creativity to reconnect to my soul's truth
• Receive an invitation to create your own soulful artwork that honours the truth calling you forward in this season.

Reflection for You

What shape or symbol best represents your soul truth right now, and how might you give it more space in your life?

Key Takeaways

• Soulful art is a safe, nurturing way to connect to and express inner truth.
• Creativity becomes a mirror for soul values, such as courage, patience, and trust.
• Honouring truth through art doesn’t require perfection, only presence and willingness.
• You are invited to share your artwork inside the free Soul-led Creative Community

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This episode is part of a new format I’m trying out.

I want to make this space more about soulful, real-time creative connection.

So each month, we'll be exploring a soulful theme and guiding you through a mini soulful creative Ritual, featuring 3 components:

• starting with a soul activation meditation,
• an invitation for you to try a soulful art-based prompt
• and a poetry minisode.

FOR EPISODE LINKS & MORE INFO VISIT: https://samhorton.co/blog/ep87

🎁 Join the conversation! Connect with like-minded souls and access FREE resources, when you join the Soul-led Creative Community for FREE - Visit https://samhorton.co/community

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The themes and practices in this episode are glimpses of tools we explore deeply in my new online program, Empowered Creative Soul. For more info and VIP access when doors open, please join the waitlist at https://samhorton.co/ECS-waitlist