Performing was my entire life for such a long time when I made the transition to being a therapist I experienced a bit of an identity crisis. I wasn't performing in the same capacity I had been and I didn't quite know who I was anymore. I have always been someone who has endless curiosity and loves learning so I made discovering what this new identity was a creative project. Up until this point I looked at creativity as the Performing Arts, anything outside of performing arts wasn't associated with creativity for me. As I began exploring my new identity as a therapist I started to realize how much creativity was showing up in my life. I was facilitating a Dialectical Behavioral Therapy group at a hospital three days a week and teaching the same curriculum on a 12 week rotation. As the weeks went on I started bringing in more of my creative ideas. Using nature, role playing, drawing and movement to teach these skills. Not only was I making the material more fun for me to teach, but the group participants started participating differently. They started asking more questions, they also made fun of me for some of the zany ideas I brought in, and they seemed to have more fun with the material. It was in these moments that I started to see how I could bring my creativity into being a therapist. I also started to shift my understanding of what creativity was and how creativity can show up in a million different ways. By bringing my two identities together I was creating a new experience of creativity for myself, and I loved it even more! The limited or narrow view I had of creativity no longer served me and by expanding it and allowing my view to change I am now able to find creativity in literally everything I do. This may sound like I'm all sunshine and ponies, and while I am a very positive and resilient person I'm human and have bad days and non creative days, and I'm okay with that because I know how to come back to my creativity, how to fill my creative cup so I can continue to share my unique blend of creativity with the world. Creativity will always be a part of my life. It may look different today than it did 5, 10 or 15 years ago, and that's normal because I'm not the same person I was 5, 10 or 15 years ago. As I grow and change so does my creativity.