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How does being mother inspire you?

It's easy for women to lose a bit of their creative 'naughtiness' when they become mothers. Here I am, on the Disney Cruise with a 1 year old and a 3 year old, and I can't help but wonder....does our creativity come from our inner child? Do you feel silly when you allow your artistic self to play? Does being a mother make that easier? What did Walt Disney think about during sex? Just wondering......

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I think our inner child is a major contributor to creativity--spontaneity, wonder, expressiveness, lack of self-consciousness--those are all child-like qualities. Do I feel silly when creating? I'm not sure what you mean. I don't feel silly in the sense of being self-conscious (making a fool of myself). I feel playful and joyful, and very much at peace. I learned new things about creativity from observing and playing with my children. They're more interested in the process than in the finished product. This means they don't self-censor, they just plung in and enjoy it. They take whatever they have on hand and work with that rather than focusing on what they wish they had. (No brush? no problem--use a twig, or a crumbled up piece of paper, or just your fingers. I can't even begin to list all the ways my children inspired me, but I think the biggest, and maybe the best lesson was: don't worry about what anyone else might think--just do it and enjoy it while you're doing it.

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I actually think that our inner child is not a child at all but really our spiritual selves. I am silly often, the older I get the more comfortable I become with being silly, creative and playful. Being that I was a teen mother, (twice) the major change for me was to quickly grow up, nothing speeds growth like pushing a 9lb9oz baby out your vagina. I now profoundly understand unconditional love, as well as the great impact that the responsibility of living for someone else had on who I am as a person. As for Walt's tastes? well he was probably into kink :)

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i have always been over imaginative. Now as a mother of 3 my children i find that i'm crazy inspired. it's like a muse overload. the children give you license to be as silly as you want to be. be as strong as you can be. serious as a heart attack. and so intuitive. what i create these days amazes me.

@krystimayers Waynesboro, VA.

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