I’m going to talk about Experimental Threshold Crossings (ETC’s) as one tool or practice to support change and to play with living your authentic voice. It’s about nudges - little actions - taken from the standpoint of your vision self. Little nudges every day will shift and build up over time. It’s a practice.

Ever since my first breakdown back in 2016 (the one with herniated discs from chronic stress), I’ve worked to - what I thought at the time - heal myself. As this self-work evolved, now I see our role is really to whole and rewild.

Part of the quest was 4 days of solo fasting (only water to drink) time. I knew that would be challenging all on its own. Combine that with torrential mountain thunderstorms, hail, swaying old trees surrounding me to really place the inner fears smack out in front to be faced.

One year ago, I quit higher ed because I was fatigued of the constant deconstruction mode. The tearing apart of mind, body, and soul. I was ready to reimagine a paradigm shift beyond the fear and shame. My journey had placed me back at home within myself.

I stepped back a little in my blogging and outreach this past month because I’ve been preparing for BIG transformation. When I’m in that space, I step inward. I even start organizing and purging the house — I imagine that’s an outward manifestation of what’s happening inside.

Routines can give you back your sanity, time, and spaciousness for your creativity. And even more than that, routines train your brain - when you have a creative routine you are prepping your neural pathways for the work. Creativity needs the support of some variation of routine and discipline/commitment.

The topic of practices to unblock creativity is closely tied to the previous one on creative rest and to the next one on routines. I’m a big fan of framing activities - especially the ones on this list - as practices because every day and time will be different based on mood, energy, context, time, space and more.