What if creativity doesn’t require you to be healed, fearless, or finished?

In this intimate and soul-rich conversation, Sophia is joined by Asifa Sheikh (she/her), a writer, poet, and Firefly Creative Writing facilitator, to explore what it means to create from the whole self, including grief, rage, body, memory, and hope.

In this episode, they explore:

• How creativity can be a place of belonging and agency, especially when the world feels unwelcoming
• Why grief isn’t a block to creativity, but fertilizer for deep, meaningful work
• The relationship between grief, rage, and creative fuel and how both can be alchemized into art
• What it means to create while holding multiple marginalized identities
• The myth that creativity should feel effortless and why the fight is p ...