Episode #9 - Inger Brown - You Are Creative

INGER BROWN - You Are Creative


In this episode, I sit down with Inger Brown and we riff on
creativity, how it is innate in each of us, how it differs from
being artistic, and how creative blocks can serve as a mirror for
us to look inward in order to discover more about the fullness of
who we are. 


Inger is an herbalist, writer, poet, artist, and teacher who has
found healing in the natural world and with plant medicine. She
writes, “Having such life affirming experiences with herbs, I
wanted to help others find their own healing so studied herbalism
on my own and with teachers and mentors. It was beautiful to see
the softening of nervousness that milky oats could bring, how
yarrow could both help move stagnant blood and stop excessive
bleeding, and how Solomon’s seal and rose could assuage grief.


One day as I sat with a client we came face to face with their
deepest resistance.  They showed up to appointments and left
ready to implement lifestyle changes and use the herbs I
suggested yet came back each time having been unable to take
action between sessions. It was demoralizing and baffling for us
both and I didn’t have strategies or resources to draw from to
help them get past this block so the herbs could do their
profound work.


At the same time I experienced my own creative dry spell and was
stuck for months, unable to be present to things that bring me
joy or take action toward the things I knew might make a
difference. Since then I’ve learned new maps to help me
understand where and why we tend to get stuck and continue to do
my own inner work to be able to meet myself and my clients where
they are—helping them move beyond protective patterns to
experience greater flow and feeling in their own lives.”


If you would like to connect with Inger you can find her via her
website: apothecaryoftherose.com


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Bryan Nixon is a psychotherapist and the founder and clinical
director of Mindful Counseling GR in Grand Rapids, MI. He is also
a teacher and facilitator in Relationally Focused Psychodynamic
Therapy, a post-grad continuing education program for therapists.