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Larissa Russell, Founder and CEO Queer Voicez and Creative U Business

Today, my special guest is Larissa Russell. And she’ll be talking about how to use creativity to start the healing journey.

My name is Avil Beckford and I am the host of The One Problem podcast interview today. My guest is Larissa Russell. She's the Founder and President of Queer Voicez and Founder of Creative U. Most of the time, the people that I interview, I have some sort of relationship with them. I met Larissa on Lunchclub, and I decided to interview her. So the way it works, Larissa is going to present her problem, and then she's going to take six minutes to offer her solution. And it's simply a way for us to learn from each other. Over to you, Larissa.

Larissa Russell

Thank you Avil. And so my problem is about how to start our journey of healing with creativity. So there's a few different steps that I always recommend first off. And journaling is the number one that I always say because journaling starts to allow us to sort of tap into our inner energies. And allow us to start to explore what's going on within ourselves. And there's lots of different ways you can journal. We could go into that. That's a whole other thing altogether.

But just even starting, so finding a time during your day. I prefer the first thing in the morning. But maybe at night, maybe lunchtime, whatever, a few minutes you can carve out for yourself to start. Journaling is a great way to start that healing journey in a creative way. The second step for that is also our self-talk, right? So, adding affirmations to the way we speak to ourselves, adding positive ‘I am' statements. Even posting those sometimes really helps us sort of change the way we think about ourselves.

And it's a healing act in a creative way. I often ‘pretty’ them up, if you will. I paint them and post them around the house so that I have those positive affirmations, but also pretty messages around the house to remind myself. And I think that's really important.

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Larissa Russell

My third one is the Art Journal. And the Art Journal is a great way to create without judgment, because you don't have to share it with anyone. It's just a book, and it can be literally a book you pick up at the dollar store. It doesn't have to be anything special. It can have lines or not, but just allowing you to sketch and doodle and maybe throw some paint on the page, not trying to create anything in particular, not trying to create a finished picture, but just allowing that creativity out.

And it's amazing how much it's almost like a meditation, if you will. It allows you that downtime to really explore what's going on within you. And maybe looking at the colors you choose. I often include journaling with that. So going back to that first step, include journaling into the Art Journal. I do Art Journaling and then write about how that felt for you. So that's really important as well. And then the next one is intuition. And learning to tap into ourselves and learning how to really connect and listen to what we're being told because we have been conditioned to not listen to our intuition.

That's just part of our culture, right? And so we need to learn to tap into that. And there's so many different ways you can do that. But it's mostly about being silent for a moment and just listening. So sometimes what I'll do is I'll just step out on my balcony because I live in a condo downtown. So it's pretty busy, and I'll just step out of my balcony to breathe and centre myself and come back in. And the answer has come to me, and it can be that simple, right.

Larissa Russell

But we need to listen to that first answer or get an answer to be able to do that. And the next one is a discussion and sharing. And it doesn't seem like a creative act to discuss what's going on. But when we're sharing with other like-minded people, and I'm not talking about a bitching session or a complaint session if you need to edit that out.

The One Problem Interview With Larissa Russell:

Using Creativity to Heal

But just that, connecting with people who have similar issues. Or who are doing similar things. Finding a community or a group of people who are interested in the same things and just connecting in that way. It's really important for us to have those connections and have that discussion time for what's going on with us. And then the most important, I think, for our healing with creativity and finding a way to do that is to find what you're passionate about.

Find what you love to do, because ultimately, if you're forcing yourself to do something else, then you're not going to really get into that flow. But if you find something that you love to do, you will forget that flow and that healing energy going within you because it's all about centering yourself and finding your own true self. So I hope those things help. I hope I got it within the time limit that I felt like I was talking really badly. I'll turn it back over to you Avil.

Avil Beckford

You did it within the time frame. Yeah, I live by the highway, so I often just mute myself. So, anyway, that was good. Thank you so much.

Larissa Russell

Yes. Thank you.

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