Excavating Your True Self Through Creativity: Self Love & Authentic Creative Living | Kristen Crabtree

June 7
24 mins

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Trigger Warning 

This episode contains discussion of sexual assault, rape, psychological abuse, coercive control, divorce, trauma, and emotional healing. 

While this conversation is ultimately one of self recovery, empowerment, creativity, and remembering who you truly are, some listeners may find parts of Kristen's story confronting or sensitive. 

Please listen with care and honour whatever support feels right for you as you engage with this episode. ❤️ 

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What if the person you've been searching for your entire life is actually you? 

After surviving trauma and leaving a psychologically abusive 22-year marriage, Kristen Crabtree found herself facing a confronting question: Who am I really? 

In this powerful conversation, Kristen shares her extraordinary journey of self recovery and how creativity, meditation, self inquiry, and radical self love helped her reconnect with the truth of who she is beneath years of adaptation, survival, and conditioning. 

Together, we explore why creativity may be one of the most powerful spiritual practices available to us, how flow states can help quiet the noise of everyday life, and why healing is often less about fixing ourselves and more about remembering the brilliance that has been within us all along. 

If you've ever felt disconnected from yourself, your creativity, or your inner truth, this conversation offers a powerful invitation to come home to who you really are. 

In This Episode You'll Discover: 

• Why self recovery may be more powerful than traditional self help
 • How trauma and adaptation can disconnect us from our authentic identity
 • The role creativity plays in healing, self discovery, and spiritual growth
 • Why flow states can be a powerful form of meditation
 • How to begin uncovering the layers that are hiding your true self
 • The difference between self revelation and self reclamation
 • Why passion naturally replaces the need for discipline and motivation
 • How your environment can reveal important clues about who you really are
 • A simple reflection exercise to reconnect with forgotten parts of yourself
 • Why self love may be the deepest relationship you'll ever cultivate 

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