005 Prioritising Art for Self Care Paint Rest Repeat

Welcome back to another episode of the Paint Rest Repeat Podcast.
This fortnight we are rewinding back in time to Pre-Christmas, when Ros was madly painting Christmas baubles and getting ready for the markets. Ros talks about how she is in a high energy phase in her art business by testing the market with new ideas for putting her art out into the world. 
Laura taking things a little bit slower for the silly season and sitting back and re-assessing her next steps forward in her creative business. She has come to realise that for her energy to be sustainable she needs big periods of rest after completing a big project. They both discuss taking time out in your business for reflection and journalling. Ros talks about being a mother, how she doesnt “stop” and rest lives within a “dreamspace” for her in her busy life. 
Laura talks about a really positive art therapy session that she recently did, and raises her desire to make more time to do art therapy for her own self care. Ros brings up scheduling time for both of their own personal art practice. Both Ros and Laura contemplate how they might prioritise time for themselves during their week to work on their own art. Ros talks about how she spends a lot of her energy and time in fostering creativity in others, because she has seen the benefits of art for herself that she is excited to share. 
Laura proposes they both make a commitment of 10 mins of art with no purpose in their week - for self care, fun, play and exploration. Ros jokes about how Laura has flipped her business around and explains how this discussion has led to allowing her to “give herself permission to paint” which is what Ros shares with her students. 
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