1 hr 5 min
Reconciling Art and Motherhood - Denise Gasser Creative Ways Podcast
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Denise Gasser is a mixed media artist, born and raised near the mountains of Utah.
After years of over whelming guilt for wanting to still be an artist mixed with anxiety to try be the perfect mum and helper in her community, Denise decided to hold her hands up and embrace it all, the distractions, imperfections, the messiness around trying to paint and mother 4 young children!
Denise founded the ‘Art After’ project. Reconciling art and motherhood. A series of small paintings that occur in one sitting and must be finished once interrupted. When that happens, Denise writes on the back the date the time she started the time she finished and what the interruption was.
As you can imagine this project has had global reach after her exhibition! Denise gives talks and workshops in the US and Canada and is owned in private collections in several countries around the world.
Denise shares honestly about her journey as a young Mum and artist, her thoughts on balance, boundaries and guilt.
Look at her stunning work
www.denisegasser.com
Denise’s Takeaways
1.Having honest conversation with other women is vital
2.Being a mum is lonely, being an artist is lonely! Make sure you reach out to creative communities online.
3.Finding time to create is vital to being a better Mum, because you’re being the better you!
4.Feeling burnt out isn’t ok! We are told its path and we need to juggle, spin those plates. Talk to your family and work out scheduling times for you!
5.We don’t have an adult telling us to take care of ourselves! It’s our job to think about what patterns and examples we are setting to our kids.
6.It’s ok to say being at home with the kids isn’t working out for us all. That doesn’t make you a bad parent! You’re an honest human.
7.Giving yourself permission is vital, not just for yourself but for others.
8.Take a good look at where your time is spent each day, which chunks are being spent on what areas and write it all down so you can see in detail how many people and jobs are taking you away from what you really want.
9.Stop asking why you should do it. What's the reason? Sometimes our bodies want to move and dance just because!
11.Chipping away is such a powerful mantra. Start telling yourself this each day.
12.If alarm bells are ringing for you or a family member regarding ADHD take an online test and have a look at the show notes for some of our favourite books.
Denise's Book Recommendations:
Driven to Distraction
ADHD 2.0
The ADDitude Website has tons of great articles
Anything by Russel Barkley. I learned a lot from this talk I listened to on YouTube : https://youtu.be/YSfCdBBqNXY
Denise Gasser is a mixed media artist, born and raised near the mountains of Utah.
After years of over whelming guilt for wanting to still be an artist mixed with anxiety to try be the perfect mum and helper in her community, Denise decided to hold her hands up and embrace it all, the distractions, imperfections, the messiness around trying to paint and mother 4 young children!
Denise founded the ‘Art After’ project. Reconciling art and motherhood. A series of small paintings that occur in one sitting and must be finished once interrupted. When that happens, Denise writes on the back the date the time she started the time she finished and what the interruption was.
As you can imagine this project has had global reach after her exhibition! Denise gives talks and workshops in the US and Canada and is owned in private collections in several countries around the world.
Denise shares honestly about her journey as a young Mum and artist, her thoughts on balance, boundaries and guilt.
Look at her stunning work
www.denisegasser.com
Denise’s Takeaways
1.Having honest conversation with other women is vital
2.Being a mum is lonely, being an artist is lonely! Make sure you reach out to creative communities online.
3.Finding time to create is vital to being a better Mum, because you’re being the better you!
4.Feeling burnt out isn’t ok! We are told its path and we need to juggle, spin those plates. Talk to your family and work out scheduling times for you!
5.We don’t have an adult telling us to take care of ourselves! It’s our job to think about what patterns and examples we are setting to our kids.
6.It’s ok to say being at home with the kids isn’t working out for us all. That doesn’t make you a bad parent! You’re an honest human.
7.Giving yourself permission is vital, not just for yourself but for others.
8.Take a good look at where your time is spent each day, which chunks are being spent on what areas and write it all down so you can see in detail how many people and jobs are taking you away from what you really want.
9.Stop asking why you should do it. What's the reason? Sometimes our bodies want to move and dance just because!
11.Chipping away is such a powerful mantra. Start telling yourself this each day.
12.If alarm bells are ringing for you or a family member regarding ADHD take an online test and have a look at the show notes for some of our favourite books.
Denise's Book Recommendations:
Driven to Distraction
ADHD 2.0
The ADDitude Website has tons of great articles
Anything by Russel Barkley. I learned a lot from this talk I listened to on YouTube : https://youtu.be/YSfCdBBqNXY
1 hr 5 min