for the Creatives

for the Creatives by Mika Vonshá Living with a lack mindset can make it extremely difficult to not worry about money first whenever you make any decision. Moreover, a lack mindset can make it seem impossible to give and cause you to undervalue yourself. It's time to shake things up. It's time to adopt a new belief that may cause some discomfort at first glance. Yet the solution to a poverty stricken habit of mind is and always will be generously giving and practicing an attitude of service.  Oprah Winfrey has stated that as long as you have breath in your body, you have something to be grateful for. This couldn't be closer to the truth. When I fell in love with my breath, my entire life began to change. I realized that although it had seemed like I had lost everything -- my health, my home, my marriage, my children, the truth was that I had everything in the world to be thankful for and that my breath alone was enough. Having breath means that you still have your being. You...

 for the Creatives by Mika Vonshá  The truth is that I don´t know how to embrace my flaws. I don´t know how to stop looking for hairs to pluck out of my face or how to stop picking already damaged skin. I don´t know how to forgive myself when I yell at my children or go on a complaining rampage about a minuscule mistake they´ve made. The best thing I know how to do is write about it and share it with other humans because out of over eight billion people on the planet, there is no way I am alone in this.  Crohn´s Disease Purple Ribbon Last year, I watched an old video of myself and my children during a regular day. In the video, I scolded my son so harshly, I cried from the depths of my gut. During that time, I was already beating myself up about my inability to spend enough time with my children in their first years of life due to my battle with Crohn´s disease. Crohn´s disease is a chronic, extremely painful, and embarrassing irritable bowl disease. But no one prepares y...

for the Creatives by Mika Vonshá When I got married, I thought I was honoring my husband by giving him my paychecks to handle. While I now understand how ludicrous this is, I was blinded by my the idea that because a man was the ¨head of the household" that meant he was also more responsible with money than the wife. The scary thing is, I know I am not the only woman who has thought this way. It was under that false premise that my finances in my early twenties took a turn for the worse, but it was not because my now ex-husband was irresponsible with money at all. In fact, whether he was or wasn´t responsible has no bearing on the truth. The truth is that I was afraid of money. But why?  Why You Fear Money In the First Place In the famous passage from 1 Timothy 6:10 of the King James Version of the Holy Bible, it is stated that "the love of money is the root of all evil." I'm not the first to explore this and will not be the last. Yet while contemplating my choice of...

for the Creatives by Mika Vonshá We´ve all heard the humdrum phrase ¨ struggling artist .¨ I must admit, I too wore that title for a long- long time. I wore it until I stood face to face with burnout, which had been stalking me for years. I produced seeming gems under the pressure of survival and the need to fulfill grant requirements. However, these so-called gems were mediocre at best -- simply glamorized by the amount of efforting I had been putting into my starving practice. And so the question persisted-- how (in the h-e-double hockey sticks) do I monetize any of this? With basic needs breathing down by back and my children´s fantastic stories painting their elaborate (expensive) futures, I needed to monetize and I needed to do it fast! But...  how ?! I dare to unleash the keys to this overly mystified question and bust all of your fears once and for all! -- or at least that is my hope for you and this article is a start... at best.  One thing is for sure... monetizing...