Episode 16
On this Episode of Fulfillment Equation
Get ready to take a deep dive into the Fulfillment Foundation “the importance of creativity and solitude”! In this episode, I’m talking to award-winning author and poet, Jaclyn Desforges. We discuss how the path to creativity involves overcoming the fear of not being good enough. Jaclyn describes how the experience of becoming a mom helped with that: “I was too tired to be afraid”.
We explore Jaclyn’s complex relationship with writing and she shares helpful tips for fostering your own creativity. Then we dig into why quiet is such a necessary ingredient for fulfillment.
Finally, together we build Jaclyn’s equation: 6wr + 16b + 7wa + 1.5wo + 2by + 11p + 2d + 7r.
Hear how Jaclyn sets an intention to evolve her equation over time: 6wr → 12wr, 16b → 8b, 2by → 7by
Fulfillment is reading and writing.
– Jaclyn Desforges
About the Guest
Jaclyn is the author of Danger Flower, one of CBC’s picks for best Canadian poetry of 2021. She’s also the author of a picture book, Why Are You So Quiet?, which was nominated for a Chocolate Lily Award and selected for the 2023 TD Summer Reading Club. Jaclyn is a Pushcart-nominated writer and the winner of the 2018 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices award, two 2019 Short Works Prizes, and a 2020 Hamilton Emerging Artist Award for Writing. Her writing has also been featured in a number of magazines across North America. She holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia’s School of Creative Writing and lives in Hamilton with her partner and daughter.
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