Consent + Creativity: an Unexpected Link

Every opportunity for self-expression is one worth taking.

Unblocked: Moving through creative blocks with a self-consent practice starts 5/15.

When I started intimacy coordinating back in 2019, I felt my life rapidly changing. Learning about consent drastically altered my relationship with myself and others, and deepened my relationship with my body. This all made sense to me. The most surprising shift, however, was my relationship with my creativity.

As I sat with friends over a potluck dinner this past week, at the home of my dog’s puppy’s human (my dog had puppies before I adopted her and I serendipitously found one of the puppies at the dog park last year), we all talked about our relationships to creativity and flow.

“For me, it has been about consent. Allowing my current self to say no to a past self that gave me a todo list. If I trust that the desire will come and stay open to feeling the creative impulse, then if it’s not there, I allow myself to say no,” I said.

Classes • Workbooks • Consulting • Merch

~ Just want access to this article? Venmo a donation to @sharetheload with your email address and the name of the article you want in the comment and I’ll send it to you ~