32 min
1.07 - Self Care is Community Care, with author Jónína Kirton The Balanced Creative
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- Self-Improvement
What can author care look like by going back and looking at our lives before we embraced the creative world. What’s changed? What can we call back in? How can we truly take care of ourselves first? Join me and writer, Jónína Kirton as we spend some time with each other talking about our goals, our bodies, and what has helped us move forward as creators.
When you put yourself first, you can show up for others in your most authentic way. Care needs to be defined by you. No one else’s definition of care will make the cut. Spend time every single day unlearning and letting things go.
**Jónína Kirton** is an Icelandic and Red River Métis poet was born in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, the traditional lands of the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, Anishinaabeg and the Métis. She graduated from the Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio in 2007 and is currently an Adjunct Professor with the UBC Creative Writing Program. She released her first book, page as bone ~ ink as blood, in 2015 and she was sixty-one when she received the 2016 Vancouver’s Mayor’s Arts Award for an Emerging Artist in the Literary Arts category. Her second collection of poetry, An Honest Woman, was a finalist in the 2018 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her third book, Standing in a River of Time, released in 2022, merges poetry and lyrical memoir to take us on a journey exposing the intergenerational effects of colonization on her Métis family. She is a citizen of the Métis Nation of BC and currently lives in New Westminster BC, the unceded territory of the Halkomelem speaking peoples.
Visit https://www.breathingspacecreative.com/ to help you become a Balanced Creative
What can author care look like by going back and looking at our lives before we embraced the creative world. What’s changed? What can we call back in? How can we truly take care of ourselves first? Join me and writer, Jónína Kirton as we spend some time with each other talking about our goals, our bodies, and what has helped us move forward as creators.
When you put yourself first, you can show up for others in your most authentic way. Care needs to be defined by you. No one else’s definition of care will make the cut. Spend time every single day unlearning and letting things go.
**Jónína Kirton** is an Icelandic and Red River Métis poet was born in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, the traditional lands of the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, Anishinaabeg and the Métis. She graduated from the Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio in 2007 and is currently an Adjunct Professor with the UBC Creative Writing Program. She released her first book, page as bone ~ ink as blood, in 2015 and she was sixty-one when she received the 2016 Vancouver’s Mayor’s Arts Award for an Emerging Artist in the Literary Arts category. Her second collection of poetry, An Honest Woman, was a finalist in the 2018 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her third book, Standing in a River of Time, released in 2022, merges poetry and lyrical memoir to take us on a journey exposing the intergenerational effects of colonization on her Métis family. She is a citizen of the Métis Nation of BC and currently lives in New Westminster BC, the unceded territory of the Halkomelem speaking peoples.
Visit https://www.breathingspacecreative.com/ to help you become a Balanced Creative
32 min