I used to make a brand of hip-hop called Swing Hop.
It fused rap and big band music, and also embedded me into the modern day pin-up model sub culture.
The issue was, I couldn't express everything that I was feeling. I felt boxed, and needed something that wasn't produced...
So, I started doing #flowtherapy...
When I started writing spoken word poetry, and finding the choice words to explain what I felt deep down, it felt liberating.
Well, I've been a creative writer my whole life. It's taken me through the mediums of art, and music mostly. I've made a lot of hip-hop music for about 10+ years. Even met Macklemore at the Evergreen State College, and recorded my first 8 songs EP at his apartment in Olympia, WA.
I went to the Los Angeles Recording School to learn the ins-and-outs of audio recording. I then bridged over to the left side of the brain with accounting, analytics, and auditing.
To the point that I went back to school and got an Associate's Degree in Accounting at the local community college, and am now at a crossroads. I feel like it's time to pursue my calling, and believe that I can do it through creativity.
Right now, it's a lot more art, but I feel like I want to use all my talents to tell stories:
This is the website.
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2. How does your idea of "Flow Therapy" help in Healing people ?
Flow Therapy started as a poetic release of what was going on deep down. Since I had spent so much time writing in rhyme and verse, I figured it would be a good release of soul:
In showing what happens in the "World War Me" moments, it gives others a chance to resonate with it.
If they hear what I'm going through, and they feel it deep, then it could give them a chance to tell their story. Or, it could at least show them what being vulnerable sounds like...and they can be vulnerable, too.
3. Is there any back story behind developing this creative idea of Flow Therapy ?
I used to make a brand of hip-hop called Swing Hop. It fused rap and big band music, and also embedded me into the modern day pin-up model sub culture.
The issue was, I couldn't express everything that I was feeling. I felt boxed, and needed something that wasn't produced...
So, I started doing #flowtherapy...
When I started writing spoken word poetry, and finding the choice words to explain what I felt deep down, it felt liberating.
It allowed me to tell a story about all my negative emotions, so that they didn't have power over me.
If I could explain any of these states of emotion that hits home with others, then maybe someone out there would feel less crazy about feeling the exact same thing.
4. Who is your source of inspiration ?
It's always been my mom. She's the one that encouraged me to stop drinking ten years ago when I was an alcoholic. She simply told me, "you'll never get what you want if you can't get this controlled." After that, I haven't had a drop of alcohol since 11/12/11.
Since then, I've been inspired by many. Being in constant growth mindset attracts people to learn from, and develop new ways of leveling up.
5. Do you often have to keep upskilling yourself?
It's always about the flow of creativity for me. I guess, that's what makes #flowtherapy so versatile.
It can go from flow in poetry, to music, to art. As long as it puts me in a state of flow, then everything is going in the right direction.
6. Which is your favourite book and why?
There were a lot of takeaways from "The Untethered Soul" by Michael A. Singer. So much that I had to flow about it:
That book really allowed me to explore the realm of my deeper being, and gave me the tools with which to do it.
Interviewed by - Deepshikha
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