Living Your Most Creative Life - by Carolyn Ziel

COURSE

Living Your Most Creative Life

With Carolyn Ziel

What does it mean to live a creative life? To be a creative person? There are so many myths around this sometimes intimidating word - creative. One is that to live a creative life you have to be an artist (and a starving one at that). But this isn't true. Everyone can deserves it and can live it. Throughout this course, you'll have the opportunity to explore and shape your own definition of a creative life. Carolyn will offer you easy and actionable steps so you can tap into and feel your creative spark, no matter what you do or who you are in your life. Over the next 10 days, learn to connect with your intuitive, creative brilliance and ignite your curiosity and courage; whether you’re a painter or a dancer; a bus driver or a skydiver, you deserve to feel inspired and impassioned by life.


Meet your Teacher

Carolyn is a writer, coach, teacher, and guide. Her mission is to guide you to discover your innate creativity and live an empowered and impassioned life. Through writing, she will guide you to uncover your authentic voice—the driving force to overcoming obstacles- and releasing what no longer serves you in order to live your most creative life. Write your story. Find your voice. Heal yourself.

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10 Days

4.7k students

4.7 stars

15 min / day

Performance

English


Lesson 1

What Does It Mean To Live A Creative Life?

We start our journey looking at the many ways creativity is, like meditation, a practice. And how it is more than just being an artist. Creativity is a way of looking at the world. It is about trust and about letting go. It is about aligning with spirit. It's messy. It's unpredictable. In today's lesson, you will breathe into your current relationship with creativity. You have to start where you are. In order to move forward with your creative practice and your creative life, you have to determine what your relationship with creativity is now.

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Lesson 2

Courage

Today we tap into your courage! It can be scary, living your most creative life because it means you’re living from your truth and you're also expressing your truth out loud, putting it out there in the world. Expressing your truth isn't always about creating art. It is also about how you show up in the world. In today's lesson, we explore this idea of living from your truth. You will have the opportunity to look at how fear may be holding you back from living your most creative life. When you turn toward those fears, take the risk, stand up knowing you may fall, then you are acting with courage. Remember: Without fear, there is no courage. It is by tapping into your strength that you find your courage and you can express your creativity in whatever form it takes.

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Lesson 3

Saying Yes

In today's lesson, you will have the opportunity to identify where you might be blocking yourself from living a creative life. We explore what it means to say yes, to give yourself permission to live creatively. Saying yes is giving yourself permission to accept yourself as you are: perfectly imperfect. You'll dive a little deeper and look at what stops you from saying yes to your creative impulses and to yourself.

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Lesson 4

Stay Curious

In today's lesson, we look at the link between curiosity and creativity. We explore the difference between following your passion and being curious. It is curiosity that will lead you to new and interesting explorations and discoveries. We turn toward the small questions that bubble up from deep within. It is with curiosity that you are able to ignite your creative spark.

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Lesson 5

Inspiration

Often we are waiting, with little patience, for inspiration to breeze into our lives. But the more we wait and expect, the more elusive it seems. In lesson five we will look at the relationship between inspiration and creativity. We will explore the true definition of what it means to be inspired—to breathe into. Today's lesson is about the breath of life; about breathing into your own life. Discover your inspired spark, new ways to become inspired, and what to do when you feel you've lost your inspiration.

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Lesson 6

Listen

In lesson six, you will have the opportunity to deepen your listening practice. When you center yourself and tap into your intuition, you find support, creative inspiration, guidance, and so much more. Today you will connect to spirit through the practice of writing.

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Lesson 7

Surrender

Living a creative is living a life of surrender; surrendering to magic, to surprise, to the unknown. You surrender to the universe, the spirit, and your higher power. In today’s lesson, we look at what it means to surrender to living a creative life. Like much of what we've looked at in this course, surrender is also a practice. It is a practice that leads to magic and miracles. This is what we will practice.

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Lesson 8

Play

As adults, we don't make enough time for play in our lives. Play is something that we think is just for children. We think it's not that important and that we are too busy to play. Play supports creativity and so much more. In today's lesson, while I share some of the many benefits of play, you will get the opportunity to practice playing.

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Lesson 9

Crafting Your Creative Life

In today's lesson, you begin to craft your creative life. You will have the opportunity to put some of the tools you've been learning to use as you design your creative vision. Through meditation, you'll connect to your sixth chakra, opening to spirit, so that you might receive messages that will help you in crafting your creative vision. You will use your writing practice, turn toward your journal, and allow messages to come forth through your pen.

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Lesson 10

Commitment

You've come a long way. You've dug in and you've gone deep. You've looked at your fears, what blocks you from living a creative life and you have crafted a blueprint for how you want to build your creative life. Like creativity, meditation, surrender and so many things in life, commitment is also a practice. But with the proper tools and techniques, you can make and keep your promise to yourself—to nurture and cherish your creative endeavors. Today, you will begin to write vows to yourself, committing to lead your most creative life.

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Ask your teacher

This course includes 72 community questions and 69 audio replies from Carolyn Ziel. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Lyndsey

Lyndsey

August 27, 2025

Loved this course so much! Every day was so thoughtful and meaningful. Loved the exercise on the last day to bring it all together. Thank you so much for sharing your creative self with me♥️

Sacred

Sacred

May 21, 2025

One of my favorite courses. Carolyn shines with authenticity, a nurturing spirit, and creative flow. This course has a healing quality and has 100% inspired me and has helped cultivate more inner healing. I am almost sad the course is over yet also grateful for it and for completing it.

Bonne

Bonne

February 19, 2025

I needed this to get back on track as an artist. It totally resonated with me. Well done. Thanks.

Brian

Brian

October 23, 2024

Great course with thought provoking mindful exercises to help reveal and encourage me to being my most creative self. I learned and grew personally through all the experiences and had fun along the way. I will continue living a creative life.

Vickie

Vickie

October 8, 2024

Carolyn inspires you to be your best creative self’s I started journaling again and found a trusting heart. Just go after your passion.

Katy

Katy

July 9, 2024

Excellent course - one of the more practical ones on Insight. Thank you so much for the wonderful journal prompts! Very inspirational & motivational ❤️

Edurne

Edurne

January 14, 2024

Very inspiring and helpfull! Good insights, reflection ideas... beautiful meditations 🤍 highly recommended

Brenda

Brenda

November 20, 2023

Loved this creative journey! Thank you❤️🙏

Tammy

Tammy

September 5, 2023

I will be repeating this course. It was wonderful and very helpful. Thank you.

Elaine

June 18, 2023

This course is up my alley. A lot is a part of my practice already AND I was reminded of some things that I’d forgotten or let slip. Very helpful in giving me the courage to paint!

Vicki

Vicki

May 1, 2023

Woohoo

Dovi

April 13, 2023

Thank you so much for this inspirational course

Heidi

Heidi

March 20, 2023

It took courage to stick with this course but I am glad I did. I am going to repeat it to see how each day of journaling changes from the first time through.

Kate

March 13, 2023

Thank you Carolyn for a great Course - loved the emphasis on fun and play. There’s such a lot in each lesson - I’m going to enjoy listening to the whole thing again…and again!

Donna

December 4, 2022

Carolyn you are such an inspiring and insightful teacher. I loved this course! I’ve always believed I am not a creative person. This course has helped me to change that long held belief and given me some hope! Thank you and I looked forward learning more from you.

Jackie

Jackie

October 23, 2022

Great course!!! I vow to live a creative life🙌🏻❤️🙌🏻

Jesper

September 25, 2022

This was probably the best course I have taken here on Insight Timer so far. So many beautiful insights and concrete tools for looking at life in a more creative way. And I had a lot of fun doing the daily writing practice! I'll definitely think back on this course many times in the future.

Basia

Basia

June 18, 2022

Very instirational and practical at the same time. Gave me a lot of hope.

Aviad

Aviad

April 30, 2022

A very interesting and inspiring course.

Matthew

Matthew

March 1, 2022

Amazing. Synchronicity has been showing up hard lately. Just as I began writing a book I've been talking about writing for years this pops up. It's comforting to have these tools and the mental preparation to push through roadblocks and know it is part of the process. Then to also find a community around it? Spectacular. If you are looking to heal and get your stride in life, this is a giant leap in the right direction. Thank you!

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