111: How to Practice Play + Experience Joy in the Creative Process with Sheryl Benjy - Part I

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Your inner child longs to come alive in your creative spirit. Yet we live in a world that overemphasizes the power of form and technique over living in the play, or creating just for the sake of the person you become along the way.
In this episode, Sheryl Benjy shares how her art is more than just the tangible piece she creates, but more of a moving meditation and a process that invites play through creativity and emoting the experience.
In the emoting, Sheryl helps people heal through trauma and challenging life experiences in both the creative process + by immersing in the piece as a divine reminder that the spirit always remains.
I personally connected with Sheryl through a painting of one of the hostages following the events on October 7th and was so deeply moved by how she uses her art to express what cannot be put into words, and evokes this same feeling in both the families of the victims and the entire community at large who feels so helpless in such a tragic time.
She also speaks so beautifully to the dynamic of being both Iranian and Jewish, and how this interplay of ancestral experiences continues to influence her artistry in a way that moves others to become more resilient and feel peace amidst the chaos.
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Connect with Sheryl:
Website: sherylbenjy.com
IG: @sherylbenjy_art - https://www.instagram.com/sherylbenjy_art/
FB: @sherylbenjy - https://www.facebook.com/sheryl.benjy
Listen to her Podcast::The Creative Spirits Pod https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-creative-spirits-podcast/id1598989646
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