29. Using Creativity to Bring Mindfulness and Compassion Into Your Life With Katy Oberle

The reciprocal relationship between mindfulness and creativity is fascinating. Sometimes when we're our most tapped in and mindful, we invite in powerful waves of creativity. Other times, when we're out of sync, creative endeavors can be a vehicle for exploration and expression that helps us ease back into more mindful rhythms.   In today's episode I talk with Katy Oberle, a licensed psychotherapist turned Creative Mindfulness Coach and singer/songwriter. Katy is passionate about expanding the definition of mindfulness to include creative, nature-based and embodied practices. She coaches clients to develop their own "brand" of mindfulness that honors their innate creativity, life circumstances, values and goals. Katy believes that when our wise creative spirits come out to play, healing and transformation can happen at all levels.   Katy shares with us what it means to practice mindfulness and some of the benefits that come with it. Additionally, Katy talks about being mindfully creative vs. creative mindfulness, provides advice on how to tap into compassion for ourselves and different ways to be creative.   Katy and I would love to hear your take on creative mindfulness and how you implement it. Share today's episode on Instagram and be sure to tag us - @katyoberle and @whitneywoman!   Join Electric Offering - A six-week mastermind to help you let go of your static story and step into possibility.   Here's what to look forward to in today's episode: -Katy's take on what it means to practice mindfulness -Some benefits of mindfulness -The differences between meditation and mindfulness -Being mindfully creative vs. creative mindfulness   -Advice on how how to tap into compassion for ourselves -Transforming emotions by channeling creativity -The importance of focusing on the process, not the end product -E.M.A.P. (everyday mindfulness action plan) -Katy's 3-session 1:1 virtual creative mindfulness coaching package "Attune, Create, Thrive"   Connect with Katy: IG: @katyoberle Website: www.katyoberlecreative.com and Katy's free e-guide "5 Ways to Practice Mindfulness Without Meditating" Katy's Book/Author recommendations: An Artful Path to Mindfulness: MBSR-Based Activities for Using Creativity to Reduce Stress & Embrace the Present Moment by Janet Slom, MFA Self Compassion by Kristin Neff Still Life: the myths and magic of mindful living by Rebecca Pacheco The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron Facebook Group: A Creatively Mindful Life   Connect with Whitney IG: @whitneywoman website: myelectricideas.com