Intro: Where Truth Lives

Welcome to Creative Living After Hours, where we remember how to tell the truth.In this first episode, Lois + Maia sit down (chaotic, laughing hysterically, and fully unfiltered as per usual) to talk about what it really means to live creatively — not just to make things, but to inhabit life through the lens of creativity as a FORCE.We cover:💧 Why “creativity as optimization” isn’t it (and why we’re not here to give you 5 hacks to be more creative)💧 What happens when you stop measuring your creativity by output and start measuring it by how alive you feel💧 The myth of “writer’s block” (hint: it’s your nervous system, not your lack of ideas)💧 Why creativity lives in the body — especially in the sacral energy center — and how to tend to it💧 How to create a relationship with your voice so it actually sticks around💧 The messy, chaotic, fertile “mud” that precedes every evolution (and why we love it)💧 What truth in creative expression actually means — and how to return to it when you’ve been parroting the voices of others💧 The role of fear in art + how to build a relationship with it instead of fighting itIn Creative Living After Hours, we’re not talking about “creative performance”. This space is about stepping into the vortex of creativity as a way of being, letting it pull you in, and learning how to dance with the chaos instead of resisting it.Your practice for this episode:We’re sharing a page from the Creative Living Workbook (Vol. 1) — 12 daily prompts to help you build a sacred writing practice.Choose one prompt a day, write freely (unedited + uncensored), and see what happens when you commit to a conversation with your own voice.✨ To get the workbook page, DM Maia or Lois on Instagram with the word AFTERHOURS and we’ll send it to you.Or, you can also get it right here.SO MUCH LOVE,L + M