Imagine if they loved each other

An alternate narrative for your creative parts

The Dynamic By Annalee Kornelsen

What if your intuitive sides and intellectual sides loved each other? Imagine your structured and logical self kneeling at the foot of your wild creativity, begging for her favour like Romeo at Juliette’s window. What if your inner critic was so inspired by your intuitive side that she sat outside their door all night to make sure they weren’t interrupted? What if your inner child valued the critic’s information and wisdom and climbed onto their lap to ask their opinion when he felt he had gone as far as he could? What if the inner critic doted on the child like a kind grandparent, and, when prompted, gently explained how he could make things even better? Imagine these parts of you needed each other. Longed for each other. Advocated and fought for each other instead of against each other.

What might that change?

What could you do?

Or stop doing?

My coaching teacher told us that when people want to unlock creativity, the work is with the inner child. I'd like to expand on that. The work of creativity is often the work of polarity. Of romance within ourselves. It’s a relationship. Between us and ourselves. Between us and the medium, between us and our creation. We birth ourselves. We birth our creation. And then, like a good parent, we let it go. Let it relate to others in the world as it will.

But it starts with a love story. That’s what the pure potential of limitless creativity needs. It needs our alchemy. It needs the unique combination of all that you are to come together in the chemical reaction of your inspiration.