Lucy Dale
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Intuitive, creative guide
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Lucy Dale ~ Intuitive, creative guide ~
It wasn’t until my mid-thirties that I really discovered my intuition. Up until that point, I had been running on coffee and brain power, first to get me through a law degree and then to land me a job as an advertising creative in a London agency. It was a male dominated, Madmen world, ruled by rational thinking and charisma. My creativity was fragile and my self worth was totally wrapped up in my work. One bad review and my confidence crumbled. Externally I was succeeding, but my body knew better. Headaches, hangovers and mysterious digestive issues were screaming for change.
In an attempt to shake things up, I moved to the other side of the world. Shanghai was another workaholic metropolis, but somehow opened me up to new ideas. It was there I discovered the surrealist art movement and learnt about their techniques for accessing the subconscious. So much of it involved meditation, relaxation, rest. When I applied them to my own creative process, it was like a door swung open. I realised I’d been forcing the ideas out with a crow bar. When actually, all they needed was a bit of space.
My inner world became intriguing as my outer, leading me to yoga, meditation, tarot, psychic development and finally training as an energy healer. I loved this world but didn’t feel like I could talk about this in the office. Energy and intuition felt too wacky, too dangerous to share with my colleagues. Although in reality, this intuitive work was improving my creative process. And weirdly, I didn’t have to work as hard. When intuition was guiding me, ideas seemed to flow out of me like magic.
When I went freelance, something opened up again. I felt the desire to direct this intuitive creativity towards other things and people, particularly those doing good things in the world. I designed an intuitive branding course to help entrepreneurs and freelancers to unlock and understand their skills and offerings and express them to the world. I rediscovered tarot, not as a way to tell the future, but to access the subconscious. I started using this as a coaching tool to allow ideas to emerge and take shape. I used my psychic skills I’d learnt in my reiki training to help people identify their creative blocks.