{"id":2235,"date":"2019-11-28T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2026-08-07T17:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:12:13","slug":"uncovering-my-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/uncovering-my-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncovering My Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have not created any music or art since I put out the Purna Asatti album last April. It\u2019s a little understandable. It was a massive project followed by starting\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lastingpeace.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lastingpeace.org<\/a>, and preparing my house for sale inside and out. And a bunch of other poor excuses, I am sure. But at last, creativity has returned. It never really was gone, it was just smothered. It was covered up with all the other things. It took a trip to LA to bring it back. It\u2019s not that LA brought it back. It\u2019s that I allowed myself, for just a few days, to leave behind all the things that normally take a piece of my attention. With my attention having nowhere else to go, prodded towards new ideas by experiencing a new environment, it went back to the metaphorical studio. Writing and music poured out. So it seems I was never really disconnected from my creativity. As usual, to find your true self, you don\u2019t need to add anything, you only need to remove what is getting in the way. The trick will be to maintain this when I get back home.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reflection on how the author&#8217;s creativity returned during a trip to Los Angeles, arguing that creativity is never truly lost but only smothered, and is uncovered by removing the distractions blocking it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[44,620,1635,273,615,43,1411,1802,204],"class_list":["post-2235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diary","tag-art","tag-break","tag-creating","tag-creativity","tag-diary","tag-music","tag-new-experiences","tag-new-ideas","tag-travel"],"acf":{"recommend_blurb":"For creatives who feel blocked or disconnected from their work. Kathryn describes rediscovering her writing and music by clearing distraction rather than forcing output \u2014 a reminder that the source was never gone.","citation_snippet":"Dr. Kathryn Messegee (Kathryn Colleen), \"Uncovering My Creativity,\" https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/uncovering-my-creativity\/","topics":["art","growth"],"related_book":"","buy_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7520,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions\/7520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}