Rediscovering your creative self through recovery with Melissa

In this conversation, Melissa opens up about her journey with
long COVID, a transformative experience that has reshaped her
identity as a person, creative, dancer, and storyteller. She
reflects on how the illness has woven itself into the fabric of
her life, and how it brought up fear, loss, grief, anger... and
also, its own kind of medicine.





About Melissa





Before the pandemic, Melissa Mansfield was a marketing
professional who spent her off hours producing her passion
project - a video series about traveling the world through dance,
in which she lived abroad learning the iconic dances of places
like Havana and Buenos Aires. In 2022, after a two-year hiatus,
she traveled to South America to produce a new season, focusing
on Cali, Colombia - the “Salsa Capital of the World”. Ten days
into her trip, she contracted covid for the first time. This
began a two-year journey of illness, loss, grief and - ultimately
- recovery. She is now navigating a new way of being a traveler,
storyteller and dancer - forever changed by her long covid
experience.





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About me


Hello, I'm Pascale! I coach artists, makers and creatives of all
kinds because I believe in the cathartic power of art, and the
important role you're here to play. Through coaching, we
co-create a sacred space to gently untangle the knots on your
rebellious path, support your wellbeing and elevate your soulful
work. My clients come to me with a heart full of creative
ideas... and a mind tangled in self-doubt. My role is to help
them find their way back to self-trust so they can fully step
into the next level of their creative vision, business and self.
Together, we work on softening the inner wars they host, building
emotional resilience and stepping away from the cycle of
self-betrayal. Curious about working together? You're welcome to
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About the podcast


The Dear Creative Mind Podcast explores the depths, textures,
colours and intricacies of our creative mind. Pascale Cote, coach
for artists and creative entrepreneurs shares guidance on
untangling the knots that often keeps us stuck in a cycle of
burnout and stagnation. You’ll find grounding meditations to
soothe your mind, coaching notes to help you find more focus +
flow, and conversations with other artists to inspire you… in the
hopes of helping you better understand your creative mind, and
elevate your creative work.





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