Life Storms - How To Sing On The Other Side

Exploring Creativity: Threads & Bones

S1 E20: Life Storms - How To Sing On The Other Side: Alexandra Walker

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S1 E20: Life Storms - How To Sing On The Other Side: Alexandra Walker

In this raw and insightful chat, we go deep on how creativity (& logic) can support emotional healing, resilience, and finally acknowledging your truth

Bec Forde

Jul 17, 2025

Transcript

Whoop, whoop we made it to 20 episodes! This week’s episode is for every soul, creative or otherwise, who’s faced a Life Storm and wondered how to keep going.

In this milestone episode of Threads & Bones, I sit down with trauma informed coach and creative guide Alexandra Walker to explore how creativity isn’t just a luxury, it can be a lifeline. We also talk about the entwinement of creativity with logic and how they work together to help us unpack unhealthy coping mechanisms. We can move through our life storms, reframe our challenges, and find our voice again.

Among other things we hear about Alexandra’s “two buckets” of creativity, the impact of teachers who see our potential, the power of metaphor and storytelling, and the way unresolved pain can masquerade as a busy, “successful” life.

Between reflections on moving past childhood trauma, coping mechanisms, the joys of Munro bagging, figuring out how to be comfortable with an empty diary, and overcoming the fear of sharing our creative work, this episode is a rich reflection on what it means to live a creative life through chaos and calm alike.

✨ Show Notes & Takeaways

🎨 We’re all creative, remember it’s not a gift for the chosen few, it’s part of what makes us human.
🪣 Alexandra’s “two buckets” of creativity: #1 the traditional expressive arts, and #2 the multifaceted, all angles approach to innovative problem solving.
👩‍🏫 A great teacher can change everything, especially when they see your potential before you do (watering can badgers anyone?)
🌀 Busyness can be a mask for pain and usually there’s a tipping point to make us reassess our “success”. Our intuition might not always be right but can guide us to make changes.
🌿 Space, in nature and in our heads, can heal. The “void” isn’t empty, instead it’s where the creative magic begins.
🎶 Alexandra’s metaphor “Singing After the Storm” helps us understand how to shed our not-serving-us-anymore coping armour to live more fully in our truth.
🧰 Journaling can be an important part of your “storm tool kit.” Use your own words or borrow someone else’s until your voice comes.

🫣 Sharing your creativity is always scary, it’s hard to be vulnerable. Lean into knowing it’s meant for the right people, not everyone.
👑 You don’t need to be rescued. You can rescue yourself! Damsel Not in Distress.

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