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Chelsea Granger is an artist and illustrator based in Connecticut whose work is grounded in love, earth magic, and collective liberation. In this conversation we talk about:

  • Why creating a morning ritual assists in invoking the energy you want to feel in the day
  • Why inviting slower energy welcomes the space for creative projects to arise
  • What it means to make the shift from making art to trusting the pure flow of our creative potential
  • The contrast between service and success as an artist
  • How death has a way of clarifying your core values, and lets you see what really matters with clearer vision
  • How the horror of death can serve as a portal to gifts of healing and more vibrant states of being
  • Why community is so imperative in keeping you afloat while you experience the pain of death
  • What it means to navigate the surreal shock and strangeness of sudden death
  • Why sharing about the process of grief and death is so meaningful in a society that doesn’t talk about it at all
  • How choosing life changes your relationship with death
  • What it means to show up when people die
  • How death brings both great despair and great acts of love at the same time
  • How depression has the ability to unplug you from everything you love and enjoy, and leave you feeling ashamed
  • What it means to trust the ones you love and how they hold your true vision when you can’t see yourself clearly anymore
  • Why grief has its own timeline and can be a long process
  • Why coming to life with more aliveness is such a potent way to honour the person you have lost
  • How grief changes you from darkness to lightness
  • How the things that don’t serve you through your grief process sift themselves out
  • How by fully allowing yourself to feel grief, you release the grip of your shadows

Links:

  • Check out all Chelsea’s amazing offerings on her website at https://www.chelseagranger.com/
  • Connect with Chelsea on Instagram @chelseairisgranger
  • Check out The Royal Frog Ballet at http://www.theroyalfrogballet.com/
  • To purchase Chelsea’s posters, zines, and art visit her Etsy page at https://www.etsy.com/shop/ChelseaGranger
  • Check out Chelsea’s resources on death and grief at https://www.chelseagranger.com/deathgrief.html
  • Check out Chelsea’s book recommendations:
  • Saying Kaddish by Anita Diamant at http://anitadiamant.com/books/saying-kaddish/overview/
  • The Smell of Rain on Dust by Martin Prechtel at http://www.floweringmountain.com/books/rain-on-dust.html
  • To Bless the Space Between Us by John O’donohue at https://www.johnodonohue.com/store
  • Concerning the Book That is the Body of the Beloved by Gregory Orr at http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/gregoryorr.html
  • Modern Women Many Moon Books at https://visualmagic.info/many-moons-workbook/