A frustrating side effect of pregnancy for me is not being able to work very well in the studio. I can sit in there for an hour and not think of a thing to go on with. The flow is absent and it feels like an essential part of who I am is missing. I miss the burst of the really big projects.
All I can do is continue to show up. Dry creative spells always drive me nuts.
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How I understand you! the first months of my second pregnancy, I lost interest in everything, and everything would make sick didn't take pictures and didn't blog for months! But then it passed and everything came back to normal..
Aww I'm sorry that you are going through a dry spell...hopefully that will go away soon and you'll be back to creating anything and everything!
I have had those creative lulls even when I'm not pregnant. Often when I finish a project I have only a brief period of feeling accomplished before I get a quesy feeling of... what if I can't ever make anything again?! I know it comes without as much anxiety for most, but I always attribute it to being in a creative field. It's so rewarding but also emotionally exhausting.
Your creative energy will come back!
it's like a tide,,, high and low; but it's always there!
make little projects. your stitches look lovely!
it'll come sweet pea, i promise it will. <3
every pregnancy is different and i was completely unmotivated and uninterested with my second child. even the thought of making jewelry or browsing the internet made me wanna puke. i'm sure things will change once the little one is born. :)
ahhh yes...the ebb and flow of a creative life. i have to remind myself this frequently when i'm in a dry spell but it does pass.
Yes, I do know that feeling....it can be beyond frustrating but when the creativity pushes it's way back it's that much more sweet!
xo
cortnie
But you do have a project going on, a really big one! And your are being creative in a very literal sense, you are creating life. Be gentle with yourself, your energy and creativity is needed for the little one at the moment.
Brooke,
From a pre-mama at the end of the line I can promise you with all my heart that one day you will be inundated with ideas and it will surprise and delight you AND bring its own conundrums.
For now, aren't you kinda working on the ultimate creative project, really? ;)
xoxoxox,
A
mariella ~ that's heartening to hear! thank you. :)
anita ~ me too ~ thank you! x
mama smith ~ that's exactly what it always feels like. It's really the worst side effect of working creatively!
san d ~ true. :) thank you.
brit ~ :)
barbara ~ that made me laugh! I don't think it's as bad as that for me, so I feel fortunate! Just...waiting for ideas that grip me...
kristin ~ it's such a bummer when you're in the thick of it, you know? It shall pass, and I wish it'd hurry up...
cortnie ~ hopefully, soon. :)
langsam leben ~ thank you :)
sunny ~ I can't wait for that flood of ideas to come and delight! :) Growing a baby feels all about my body and my work is so often intellectual or conceptual and the gap is frustrating. I'm still navigating that balance.
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