In this episode of the HUMAN First podcast, Our guest is Cate Jonsson. Cate is a writer, artist, mother and mental health advocate. In 2017 she published her first collection of poetry as an act of healing through creativity, which lead to being invited to teach writing workshops centered on finding your voice and self expression for youth and women in her community. She is currently writing her first memoir and finishing her Bachelor's in Human Services and Counseling.

In this episode of the HUMAN First podcast, Dr. Courtney discusses:

• Cate describes herself as an artist which is something she struggled with
• She has always loved art and poetry which was the basis for her why
• Because the kids she worked with showed up, that inspired her to show up
• Cate shares her personal definition of creativity
• If you feel the urge to create, do it
• So much of creating is about observing
• Cate didn’t write in her journal for 10 years because she was afraid she would ruin it’s beauty
• She didn’t realize that her writing was an act of transforming and understanding her trauma
• If we feel something and don’t call it what it is, then we won’t truly feel it
• Cate’s therapist who is also an artist lead her to combining art with mental health
• Cate describes her calming corner in her home and how it helps her
• What writing a memoir feels like when you’re actually doing it
• She had always kept things at a surface level but that changed during her memoir writing
• Cate reads one of her poems on the podcast!
• Finding the words can be hard, sometimes it spills out sometimes it’s forced out

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