What Dreamers Do
Hi, I’m Carla Gover, an Appalachian musician, flatfoot dancer, mama, and DREAMER from Kentucky. I'm on a mission to share fierce love, good humor, and inspiration to help you live a life of creative freedom. I decided to start the What Dreamers Do Podcast to help answer the question: How can we use our gifts and talents to build a better world, and have fun along the way? You’ll also find musings about Appalachia as well as interesting conversations with songwriters, poets, dancers, educators, world-changers, social justice warriors, and other people like you who are working to make a difference using their art, their skills, or just the way they live their lives. On every episode, you’ll hear ideas, conversations, and actionable items to help you unlock your creativity and live your purpose. Grab a mason jar full of sweet tea (or something a little stronger) and pull up a chair, cause it’s time to get YOUR dream on!
What Dreamers Do
The Patriarchy and Your Creativity
In this episode, I explore the ways in which patriarchal and colonial thought systems affect the parts of ourselves we get to experience and express, and how we can begin to think of ways to be more complete, free human beings.
I touch on how our dominant thought systems shape the reality we experience, how qualities associated with the "feminine" are often looked down on in Western systems of thought, how how misogyny can cause us to disown important parts of ourselves, and how the process of accepting and integrating all of our qualities and characteristics can help us find more creative freedom and inspiration.
I also offer some simple suggestions for finding your way toward habits that help you court your muse and access your intuitive, creative, and receptive qualities.
And finally, I offer an example of a creative practice I've used in songwriting (and other endeavors) and share a song that was written with that practice.
Links to things mentioned in show:
Books
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
You Are a Goddess by Sophie Bashford
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Song
Cheat the Blues by Carla Gover
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