Creative by Nature Podcast with Jess Madenford

Jessica Madenford
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Because creativity isn’t something you do — it’s who you are. Creative by Nature blends self-expression, personal growth, and wellbeing in ways you can actually use. This podcast is for anyone ready to reconnect with their inner spark  — whether you’re deeply creative or someone who has never considered themselves “creative.”  You’ll hear stories and guidance for those moments when you pause and catch yourself thinking things like: “I used to have such a big imagination as a kid — what happened?” Or when you wonder, “Can I really trust myself?” Maybe you notice how often you’ve been silencing yourself just to fit in, or feel that surge of inspiration but don’t know where to begin.  Each episode meets you in those moments of doubt and “where do I even start?” feelings, helping you reconnect with your spark, trust yourself, and take simple, practical steps to express who you really are. Whether you want to feel more confident in your creativity, explore your intuition, or bring a little more mindful, inspired living into your day, Creative by Nature offers practical guidance, gentle support, and ideas you can experiment with right away. Subscribe now to reconnect with your imagination, explore self-expression, and cultivate a life of alignment, creativity, and joy. Visit thejourneytohere.net for free resources, guidance, and ways to connect with Jess. If this show resonates, share it with a friend and leave a review to help other creative souls discover a path to inspired living.

  1. 3d ago

    Creative Block or Burnout? The Real Reason Creativity Feels Hard

    Have you been telling yourself you're creatively blocked… when you're actually exhausted? So many creative, sensitive, and intuitive women assume something is wrong when inspiration disappears. We push harder, buy another course, wait for motivation, or criticize ourselves for not creating enough. But what if your creativity isn't missing? What if it's simply communicating something you've been too busy to hear? In this episode, we're exploring the difference between artist block and burnout—and why understanding that difference can completely change the way you care for yourself. If you've been wondering why creating feels harder than it used to, this conversation may help you stop asking, "What's wrong with me?" and begin asking a much gentler question instead. Listen in and discover what your creativity might be trying to tell you. Connect with me: Email me your thoughts at jessica@thejourneytohere.net thejourneytohere.net Creative by Nature Podcast If you’re feeling seen in this content, that matters. This is the space I’ve created inside Expressed. Click here to see if the Expressed Fall ‘26 Cohort is for you!

  2. Jul 30

    Finding Your Way Back to Yourself: Grief, Healing, the Nervous System & the Wisdom of Your Body with Dr. Susan Edkins

    Have you ever felt like life changed you—and you're still trying to find your way back to yourself? Whether you're navigating grief, a major life transition, or simply feeling disconnected from who you are, this conversation offers grounded hope, gentle wisdom, and practical insight. In this episode, Dr. Susan Edkins shares how grief transformed her understanding of healing, the nervous system, intuition, and the powerful connection between science and spirituality. Together, we explore: ✨ Why grief can feel like an identity shift ✨ How your nervous system shapes the healing process ✨ Learning to trust your intuition and recognize meaningful signs ✨ Simple ways to reconnect with yourself after life's hardest seasons If you're longing to feel more grounded, trust yourself again, and move forward with greater clarity, this episode is for you. 🎧 Listen now and discover how healing begins by reconnecting with yourself. Connect with Dr. Susan Edkins Dr. Susan Edkins creates Reiki-infused guided meditations and offers support for women navigating grief, healing, and life transitions. Website: https://heal.me/susan-edkins  Find her on Instagram: @DrSusanEdkinsEdD LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/susan-edkins  Connect with Jessica Madenford If this episode sparked something in you — whether it’s a desire to reconnect with your creativity, explore intuition, understand energy, or move through self-doubt with support — I’d love to invite you to explore Expressed, my 10-week group coaching journey for creatives, sensitive women, and intuitive souls. Together we’ll explore creativity, self-trust, nervous system awareness, energy, and intuition through reflection, coaching, and an evolving creative process. Learn more and join the waitlist at: thejourneytohere.net

  3. Jul 23

    Have You Lost Yourself? How Creativity Helps You Come Back Home With Dr. Staci Braun

    Have you ever looked around at the life you've built and quietly wondered... How did I lose myself? Maybe you've spent years achieving, caring for everyone else, checking every box, or becoming who you thought you needed to be. From the outside, everything looks successful. But somewhere along the way, you stopped hearing your own voice. In this deeply meaningful conversation, I'm joined by physician, musician, and creative thinker, Dr. Staci Braun, as we explore what happens when we stop separating pieces of ourselves and begin living as a whole person. Together we talk about the surprising connection between medicine and music, why creativity never actually leaves us, and how many of us unknowingly use our creativity to survive before learning how to use it to truly live. We also dive into the difference between nervous system regulation and nervous system capacity, why identity often keeps us stuck, how storytelling becomes medicine, and what it really means to trust your inner compass. If you've ever felt like you've outgrown an identity, questioned who you are becoming, or longed to reconnect with the version of yourself that felt most alive, this conversation will remind you that nothing has gone missing. You're simply remembering who you've always been. This episode is an invitation to stop asking, "Who am I supposed to be?" and begin asking, "What part of me is ready to come home?" If this conversation resonates with you, I'd love to hear what stood out. Share the episode with someone who needs this reminder, leave a review, or send me a message on Instagram. Every conversation helps us reconnect with ourselves—and each other. Connect with Staci, her music, and her supportive practice: Work with Staci: Lumen Health Learn about your health on YouTube by clicking here. Instagram: @lumenhealthmd Staci's on Substack - connect there by clicking here! Learn more about the Expressed Fall '26 Cohort by clicking here, or join the waitlist!

  4. Jul 16

    3 Ways to Strengthen Your Intuition (And What Might Be Blocking You From Hearing It)

    Have you ever had a moment where you just knew something… but you couldn’t explain how you knew? Maybe it was a quiet feeling that something in your life needed to change. A relationship that no longer felt aligned. A career path you were beginning to outgrow. A decision that looked “right” on paper but didn’t feel right in your body. So often, we dismiss these moments because intuition rarely arrives with a complete roadmap. It doesn’t hand us every answer. It usually offers a whisper—a small nudge asking us to pay attention. In this episode of Creative by Nature, I’m sharing three powerful ways to strengthen your intuition and reconnect with the inner wisdom that has been there all along. Because the truth is, you’re not “bad” at being intuitive. More often, your inner voice has simply been competing with years of conditioning, people-pleasing, overthinking, survival patterns, and the noise of everyday life. Together, we explore how to begin clearing away what’s blocking your inner knowing and creating a stronger relationship with yourself. Remember: this journey isn’t about becoming someone more intuitive. It’s about removing the layers that have made it difficult to hear what has always been there. Your intuition isn’t missing. It’s waiting for you to listen again. 🎧 Press play and join me for this honest conversation about self-trust, healing old patterns, and returning to your own inner wisdom. Read it on the blog: 3 Ways to Strengthen Your Intuitive Muscles Grab a free resource for creative healing, intuition, and spiritual growth: Free Resources Start making shifts in just 8 weeks! Explore the 1:1 Guided Journey by clicking here! - An 8-week virtual 1:1 journey combining intuitive guidance, energetic support, and reflective practices to help you deepen self-trust, move through inner blocks, and stay supported along the way. Click here to learn more about Expressed - Fall '26 Group Cohort meeting Tuesdays Reconnect with your intuition through The Inspired Path - a library of monthly energy meditations where you release what isn't your and reconnect to what is.

  5. Jul 9

    Intuition 101 — Your Intuition Is Talking to You (Here’s How to Listen)

    Have you ever had a moment where you just knew something… but you couldn’t explain how you knew it? Maybe you’ve felt someone’s energy the moment you walked into a room. Maybe a song came on at exactly the right time. Maybe you had a gut feeling about a decision, but talked yourself out of it because it didn’t make logical sense. If that sounds familiar, this episode is for you. In this episode of Creative by Nature, I’m having a heart-to-heart conversation about intuition—what it really is, how it communicates with us, and why so many creatives and sensitive souls may already be more intuitive than they realize. I’m sharing the six clairsenses and personal stories from my own journey of learning to trust what I see, feel, hear, smell, taste, and simply know. We’ll explore: ✨ What intuition really is and why everyone has access to it ✨ The six clairsenses and the unique ways they may show up in your life ✨ Why sensitivity and creativity are often connected to intuitive awareness ✨ How to begin recognizing the quiet ways your inner wisdom has been speaking to you The truth is, your intuition isn’t something you need to find outside of yourself. It’s a relationship you can nurture. So take a deep breath, get curious, and join me as we explore the language of your intuition. Because your intuition may have been talking to you all along—you’re just learning how to listen. Connect with Jess: https://thejourneytohere.net/ Download a free resource!

  6. Jul 2

    It’s not too late! Reclaiming the creative parts of yourself you thought you lost.

    Have you ever thought, “I wish I had learned that sooner,” or “It might be too late for me now”? Maybe there’s a creative thing that’s followed you for years—a hobby you loved as a kid, a dream you set aside, or something you quietly wish you were “the kind of person” who did. In this episode of Creative by Nature, I share my journey of starting piano lessons as an adult—and realizing it was never really about piano. It was about permission. To begin. To be new at something. To follow joy without needing to justify it. As I reflect on growing up with music, walking away from certain dreams, and later reconnecting with creativity in unexpected ways, I explore what it means to reclaim the parts of ourselves we didn’t actually lose… just left behind. This episode is a reminder that creativity doesn’t expire. You don’t have to be an expert. You don’t have to “catch up.” You just get to begin. We explore:  Why creativity is rarely lost, just waiting  How grief and healing can reconnect us to ourselves  The fear that tells us it’s “too late”  What it feels like to start again for joy, not achievement If something in you has been whispering “someday,” this is your reminder that someday can be today. So maybe the real question isn’t whether it’s too late. It’s: what part of you is still waiting for your yes? 🎧 Tune in to this episode of Creative by Nature and give yourself permission to begin again. Connect with Jess: https://thejourneytohere.net/

  7. Jun 25

    I’m the Daughter of a Hoarder (Part 2): The Shame, Secrets & Fear of Being Seen

    In Part 1, I shared my experience of growing up with a mother and grandmother who struggled with hoarding—the secrecy, shame, responsibility, and silence that shaped so much of my childhood. But as I continued my healing journey, I realized the hoarding wasn't the deepest wound. There was another layer underneath it all. And maybe you've experienced something similar. Maybe the details of your story are different, but you've spent years carrying the belief that certain parts of you are too much, too messy, too painful, or too shameful to let anyone see. Maybe you've become the perfectionist, the people pleaser, the overachiever, the one who keeps everything together because somewhere along the way you learned that being accepted meant being good. In this episode, I share the unexpected belief that surfaced through my own visibility work, meditation, and parts work: I'm a bad daughter. But beneath that belief was an even deeper question: What if the fear isn't that you're a bad person… but that if people truly knew your story, they would think less of you? Together, we'll explore the connection between shame, visibility, self-expression, creativity, and the courage it takes to tell the truth about who we are. If you've ever hidden parts of yourself to feel safe, struggled with perfectionism, feared judgment or rejection, kept parts of your story private, or found yourself shrinking instead of allowing yourself to be fully seen, this episode is for you. Because healing isn't always about getting rid of the parts of yourself you've hidden. Sometimes, healing is learning how to sit beside those parts with compassion, allow them to be seen, and finally give them the love and safety they have been asking for all along. This is the journey of coming home to yourself. 🔗 Connect with Jess: thejourneytohere.net

  8. Jun 18

    I'm the Daughter of a Hoarder: When Telling the Truth Feels Like Betrayal

    For years, I avoided telling this part of my story. Not because I didn't love my mom. Not because I wanted to blame anyone. But because somewhere along the way, I learned that protecting the people I loved mattered more than telling the truth about my own experience. In this deeply personal episode, I'm sharing what it was like growing up with a mother and grandmother who struggled with hoarding, mental illness, addiction, and emotional disconnection. But this conversation isn't really about hoarding. It's about the secrets we carry. It's about the shame that keeps us silent. It's about becoming the "good girl," the caretaker, the protector—and what happens when those roles follow us into adulthood. As I reflect on memories from my childhood and the aftermath of my mother's passing, I explore the hidden beliefs that shaped me for decades: that telling the truth was dangerous, that protecting others was my responsibility, and that sharing my experience somehow made me a bad daughter. In this episode, I talk about: • Growing up around hoarding, secrecy, and emotional disconnection • The burden of carrying family secrets • How childhood experiences shape our relationship with truth and self-expression • The "good girl" role, people-pleasing, and becoming a caretaker • Shame, guilt, and complicated grief after the loss of a parent • Why telling the truth about your experience doesn't erase your love for someone • Learning to hold compassion and honesty at the same time • The healing power of self-expression and storytelling If you've ever struggled with family dysfunction, estrangement, complicated grief, people-pleasing, or the fear of speaking your truth, this episode is for you. You are not alone. Sometimes healing begins when we stop protecting everyone else and finally make space for our own story. Tune in and join me for this honest conversation about shame, truth, healing, and what it means to come home to yourself. Find Jess at thejourneytohere.net

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Because creativity isn’t something you do — it’s who you are. Creative by Nature blends self-expression, personal growth, and wellbeing in ways you can actually use. This podcast is for anyone ready to reconnect with their inner spark  — whether you’re deeply creative or someone who has never considered themselves “creative.”  You’ll hear stories and guidance for those moments when you pause and catch yourself thinking things like: “I used to have such a big imagination as a kid — what happened?” Or when you wonder, “Can I really trust myself?” Maybe you notice how often you’ve been silencing yourself just to fit in, or feel that surge of inspiration but don’t know where to begin.  Each episode meets you in those moments of doubt and “where do I even start?” feelings, helping you reconnect with your spark, trust yourself, and take simple, practical steps to express who you really are. Whether you want to feel more confident in your creativity, explore your intuition, or bring a little more mindful, inspired living into your day, Creative by Nature offers practical guidance, gentle support, and ideas you can experiment with right away. Subscribe now to reconnect with your imagination, explore self-expression, and cultivate a life of alignment, creativity, and joy. Visit thejourneytohere.net for free resources, guidance, and ways to connect with Jess. If this show resonates, share it with a friend and leave a review to help other creative souls discover a path to inspired living.

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