The Gift of Creative Ruts | Learning to be Enough

[@ElizabethGaddPhotography]

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[@jsams4990]

I've heard so many messages like this lately...we are enough ❤ I try to remember...we are human beings not human doings. And so many are struggling with this concept of wanting to slow down but yet... Love that your friend's name is Elsie...that was grandmother's name. Beautiful video...your creativity is magical 😊 Too much chocolate? Didn't know that was possible 😅 Thanks for being you ❤

[@jonnajinton]

Oh my word...watching this video was like getting a warm hug. I can relate sooo much to the things you shared. Feeling not creative enough, not doing things fast enough. Feeling behind and comparing myself to others. I am sure most people can relate to this nowdays, as social media has a tendency to put so much pressure on us. But still when your in the middle of it you feel so alone. So thanks for sharing about this in such a beautiful, inspiring way ❤ And omg I almost feel like ugly cry when I saw you sitting on the beach with the "way of the heart" necklace around your neck!! AWWW 🥹 It feels so unreal to see YOU, the one and only Elizabeth Gadd wearing it. This made my day ❤ And the cup with Pepper was just the cutest!! AND you wanna know something funny, just before I watched your video I ate up a whole chocolate cake while watching a documentary on netflix and I feel a bit sick now. And then you said you did the same thing haha. You definitely are my soul sister on the other side of the world! And woooow the scenes with the torch, just so so sooo magical! Thank you for another amazing masterpiece video! You're the best 😘

[@elocinoutdoor]

maybe you can meet your soul sister someday 💕 thanks for sharing the video, jonna ❤

[@ElizabethGaddPhotography]

Ahhh Jonna, reading this makes me want to ugly cry too now, hahaha. I had been eyeing that necklace for a while and my partner Kris must have noticed because he surprised me with it, and now it basically never comes off. 😂😍 It honestly feels so "me". I love it SO much!! Also wow, we are definitely soul sisters of the opposite sides of the earth, eating our hearts out in chocolate until we're sick and dancing with pajamas under our dresses. 😂 I'm soooo glad you loved this video and could relate so well, gahhh! Love you tons, Jonna!! ❤❤❤

[@KristopherAndres-uz9hd]

Thank you for always inspiring us Jonna and that amazing necklace! It is so stunning and suits Liz perfectly 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

[@f0restangel]

Jonna Jinton brought me here - and I couldn’t be happier. This video is pure magic and so healing. Thank you so much for sharing your art 🤍

[@DanielErik]

Elizabeth, your photography is absolutely phenomenal!! Wow! I get so much inspiration from your photos! And thanks to you, BC is now on the top of my to-go-to places! Thank you for bringing us along in your creative journey! ❤

[@ElizabethGaddPhotography]

Awwwe, thank you soooo much Daniel! ❤ I think BC might literally be the most wild, beautiful and comforting place on earth. You absolutely have to visit it someday!

[@erinloughery]

I love seeing phenomenal artists inspire one another 😌💕

[@DanielErik]

@@erinloughery 💕💕🥰

[@Jgilbil24]

Stunning photography - this was prob my fav vlog yet! And yes it really resonates. Creative people of all must march to the beat of their own drum - it's what feeds and sustains our creativity!! I appreciate the restfulness and authenticity in this vid. I started out with big expectations for myself this year also but my corporate job buried me and everything else got shelved for a few months. It's just refreshing hearing other people share their struggles with performance/output pressures and giving ourselves permission to actually just BE and LIVE and exist and embrace ourselves!

[@sammsart]

I've never been more grateful in my life that someone recommended something to me. Your youtube videos are invaluable to me in emotional wisdom and natural beauty! Truly, the highlight of my day. Thank you!

[@ElizabethGaddPhotography]

This means so much to me to hear. 🥹❤️🙏🏻 Thank you for taking the time to watch this! I’m soooo happy it could mean something to you.

[@clarasophiamusic]

So beautiful and I can resonate with your words a lot 🤍

[@TheASMRLibraryOfficial]

Amazing video as always! Such an inspiration, so happy to have you as my aunt! 💚✨

[@ElizabethGaddPhotography]

Awwwwee thank you Levi! I'm so proud to have you as my nephew! Always inspired by you ❤

[@dejah85]

Aww this is so sweet!!❤

[@clarec3]

Just beautiful! So glad I found you through Jonna Jinton 😊❤️

[@just_Me27147]

Wow… couldn’t be happier that Jonna Jinton brought me here! I love it! ❤️💕

[@audecarayon994]

Sooo nice to see images from Vancouver island ! I lived there for 8 months and fell in love with this island ❤ And then I moved to the Rocky mountains and it made me miss Vancouver island even more 😅 Absolutely beautiful work, and so honest. Thank you for sharing !! "You are doing enough", it's a good reminder

[@lunaraynwolf7036]

Another viewer of Jonna here. I'm only 15 seconds in and I already KNOW this is right up my alley! I'm definitely subscribing!

[@RahelStadler]

Wow, Elizabeth!! Thank you for shedding another layer of vulnerability and for showing up as you are in this moment. Weaving your truth so gracefully into such a beautiful piece of art is pure magic in itself! I deeply resonate with what you are sharing, I have been feeling similar lately and consequently made a video about 'the joy of having enough' to remind myself as well that I am enough 😊 thank you for being such an inspiration and for being such a beautiful, kindhearted soul, thanks to your encouragement under my last comment I dared to do my first little sit down chat and it literally freed me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being you. Sending my love from the Azores ♥️

[@ElizabethGaddPhotography]

This makes me SO happy to read!! Thank YOU Rachel, for taking the time to leave this comment. I’m thrilled you were brave enough to do a little sit down chat, hehe. I still get so scared every time I do that. 😂❤️ So much love to you!!

[@dejah85]

I felt this soooo deeply🤍🪽 You are truly a sacred vessel for love to flow through, Elizabeth. I really feel that our inner strength and power grows in the moments of quietude.. it's so important to love and appreciate what is here, in the now🩷 I absolutely adore your work.. your words are always a reminder that our power is born when we relax into the present moment. Thank youuuu ❤ Love&Light beautiful soul!!! I had to watch this again.. you are wearing one of Jonna's jewelry pieces!!! Amazing!!!🪽🤍

[@ElizabethGaddPhotography]

Gahhh this makes me smile so much - I’m SO happy you liked this video, your thoughtful comment means a lot to me!! And yes!! My partner Kris surprised me with one of @jonnajinton ‘s jewelry pieces, I LOVE it so much. 🥹

[@dejah85]

@@ElizabethGaddPhotography I LOVE THAT!! Bless his heart🤍

[@allanwalli2935]

Quietude. What a great word. Just feels so calming and soothing. ❤Love it! It defines Lizzies art very well too. I do find myself contemplating how her work can convey almost overwhelming beauty and grandeur and yet feel so comforting. Its a truly wondrous thing. As you said, it feeds our inner strength and power.💕

[@Exploravore]

I recently discovered your channel and your work is beyond stunning. I live in California but grew up in Edmonton and spent so much of my childhood in Banff and Jasper (so heartbreaking to hear what recently happened to Jasper). Your stunning photos and videos of my former homeland bring something to life in me that has long been suppressed- so thank you. I particularly appreciate this video as a fellow creative dealing with my own blockages and cages right now. I don’t know how to get there, but my soul is longing to be living and creating in the wild country- thank you for your inspiration.

[@elian2723]

Thank you for sharing💖 You are one of my favorite KZbinrs! I’m so grateful I found you through Jonna Jinton and got to watch all your videos for the first time. I’m going to watch them again and again, because in the moment I’m watching them I’m transported to a world of so much beauty and calmness and I think you are such a sweet and beautiful person. Your video’s are a part of my daily meditation practice now ☺️ So thank you from the bottom of my heart 💜

[@ewamichalek2491]

Yesss!!! I do resonate! It's been a dark, gray time in my life this past winter, but definitely, like you, I'm stsrtong to truly appreciate the huge blessings that are in my life. Thank you for sharing your imperfect truth.

[@ElizabethGaddPhotography]

Ahhh I’m so glad you get it! Thank you for watching and taking the time to leave this comment. ❤️🙏🏻 Wishing you so much beauty to behold as you come out of this dark winter!

[@nanathecanner]

Beautiful! Stunning video!! Wonderfully made!! Thank you for sharing with us ❤

[@mjbj57]

Te descubro gracias a Jonna Jinton y encontrarte es una gran alegría para mi alma que comparte contigo tu amor hacia la hermosura de la naturaleza. Saludos desde el sur de España ✨🌹

[@alexgosher2702]

Elizabeth hello there ! Your videos are full of light and soul, mixed with the magic of nature and your authenticity. So happy to have found you here, thank you for all you share ! Many blessings, Katrina (coming from the south of France )

[@ElizabethGaddPhotography]

Ahhhh thank you so much for this beautiful comment, Katrina! I’m so happy you are here. ❤️🙏🏻🥰

[@AbalengHero]

Sent from Jonna 🥰 happy to be here!

[@Artemissa-annua]

No tienes por qué compararte con nadie, a mí personalmente me encanta tu arte hasta límites insospechados y resuena con mis sueños más profundos, es maravilloso cómo plasmas esos sentimientos con un lienzo por naturaleza que raya lo surrealista mágico Sé tú misma ya es bellísimo de por sí 🌱🌿🌻

[@K8_te]

Wow! Those mugs are beautiful! The art on them are amazing!

[@VikingoCelta]

Estupendo, saludos de un Uruguayo 🇺🇾🧉 que te ve desde muy lejos!

[@reciprocalhealing]

Totally resonate with the ruts of the in between seasons. Thank you for sharing ❤

[@buddhabro.9130]

Your videos are so cinematic. ❤ This is my first time watching your vog, i thought my gosh, she speaks like a young Joni Mitchell! Canada. 😂 I'm in love with that green fairy dress, trees, ferns the torch, all you need is a crown of flowers. 🔥🧚‍♂️😊. I do identify with your feelings of not being enough or doing enough. As an artist ,this spring I've been trying to draw and paint all the different budding and flowering plants I see, my first attempt at watercolor and gouache...my gosh there are so many things in bloom! Thank goodness for my camera! 😅 good wishes to you, partner, and of course Pepper ! Love the mugs btw. 😊

[@treehugger01982]

Thank you for your honesty (chocolate 😊) and this beautiful reminder! ...I also tend to forget - especially after this long, draining winter - that I am enough! 💚

[@wendywyattwood]

Life is full and every minute always seems to be accounted for.. When you create a video it is always a treat for me when I can view them. It may take days.... but when I get that moment I love to watch as your insights, your calmness, your rawness and the beauty that you capture always fills my cup!

[@ElizabethGaddPhotography]

Awwweee Wendy! This makes me so happy to read. ❤️ Seriously so glad these videos can resonate with you. Sending love to you and Derek!

[@SJH279]

Such a wonderfully therapeutic 13 minutes Beautiful scenes, beautiful sentiments. Much love from the UK.

[@ElizabethGaddPhotography]

Thank you so very much! 🙏🏻 Love to you in the UK from us here in Canada!

[@sesas4810]

Thank you. And just stunning.

[@johnq8362]

🔥❤️‍🔥🔥Thank you Elizabeth. Again. You have touched my heart ❤️‍🔥

[@ElizabethGaddPhotography]

Thank YOU! I'm so glad it could resonate with you. ❤☺

[@robertashaffer3950]

Hello Elizabeth, I am a fellow Canadian from the east! I live 5 mins north of Montreal. Jonna Jinton has referred us to your channel, and I am so glad! I have been horizontal most of the day today, trying to push myself to get things done. What you have shared in this video has eased the anxiety I am experiencing. Accepting things as they are right now regarding how I'm feeling, and simply going with the flow without the harsh, punishing thoughts, is the kindest act I can choose for myself right now. The more I self-criticize, the worse I feel. This will move me further from my intentions. I want to get things done because I am excited to do them; not because I feel guilty and anxious, telling myself I HAVE to do them. I am new subscriber to your channel! I look forward to watching your previous videos and appreciate the beauty and wisdom you share! Thank you Elizabeth! Wishing you, your partner and precious Pepper a happy Saturday 🌞

[@marvalencia9960]

I can SO relate to your comment about feeling guilty over not getting the things done we feel we HAVE to get done, rather than feeling excited because we WANT to do them, which in turn causes us not to do them. It's a viscious cycle and one that I, too, am struggling with. I think being out in nature helps, even if it's just bird watching in your own backyard, or visiting a local park. I find nature to be very healing. I hope my comment helps.

[@robertashaffer3950]

@@marvalencia9960 Hello Marianne, thank you so much. Yes, your comment does help. I appreciate it. I know that we need to "just do it" because if we wait for motivation, it will never come. The motivation happens AFTER we have put ourselves in motion. Still, I am struggling and I'm trying to figure out why. I'm very into self-help and I can offer my thoughts and help to anyone needing it. However for myself? I can't figure it out! I'm looking for a job, getting ready to move to another province.....so much to do! There are days my mind is stuck like cement! I know what I need to do...but I don't always do it!! Does this happen to you? What do you do in these situations? Today it is very cold & gray outside. It is going to rain. I just want to get into bed! 😄

[@marvalencia9960]

Robert, "procrastination" is my middle name! To break out of it, I h

[@marvalencia9960]

...have a reward system. I tell myself that if I clean the upstairs, then I can do something I enjoy like practicing drawing, watering my orange trees, taking a walk on the beach, or reading a good book. This seems to motivate me about 65% of the time to do the dull stuff. I hope you give it a try and see if it works for you.

[@SandraTomey]

Thanks for sharing Elizabeth. I find myself buried in pain after having all my belongings stolen. One rare vase that fetched $50 trillion. I am resorted to living in the back of my old truck at 61 years old, broken. Your video is refreshing, soothing, a relief to my suffering. Hang in there. Much love. Sandra.

[@gwendelyne]

Ahhh so much love for you 🥹🥰 I don't know what it is, but every video you've released has been *exactly* what I've needed to hear, right at the perfect moment... you are a treasure. 💚

[@nai-lahkristasimone5161]

Thank you Joanna- this was a gift❤

[@ninehornedelk]

Elizabeth, what you shared about the struggles gave me reassurance that I am not alone, feeling exactly the same way, especially this year, this spring. I guess indeed, we need to embrace it and try to enjoy those important tiny every day moments and gather the energy for when our souls are ready to pour beautiful creations again. Thank you for sharing this. You are such an amazing artist who inspires many of us and you ARE enough

[@annikaalexandra]

Beautiful words and imagery 🥰

[@karunastar3084]

I’m a new subscriber, thanks to Jonna Jinton. I absolutely loved this video!💞 Thank you for sharing🙏🏼🙏🏼 Stay Blessed

[@susanne4028]

So beautiful. Thank you so much.💚💚💚💚

[@LadyJaneG]

Really enjoying your videos and yes I also follow Joanna but have been following you for awhile now!! I’m also a creative ..you are totally inspiring!!! ❤️🔥

[@marihart-qbc]

Beautiful ❤

[@francineh.7825]

Another beautiful video! Seeing this made me want to see Vancouver Island again.

[@unlockyoursoulmemory4199]

you have such an artistic and awe-inspiring style, so love your work, I wish I could create videos like yours

[@lizkeyser1540]

Fabulous, just fabulous! I often feel the same way as winter gives way to several false springs and yet another snow storm. We tell each other that it is for the best, we need the moisture, but my body craves the sunlight. Everything in nature needs a "resting period" and that is how I am now looking at winter - a time to slow down and rejuvenate. I love your videos, photography and insights. Thank you.

[@mahsagomar]

5:50 I'm also struggling to find the point where I'm trying "enough". Seeing other people living faster that us when we're stuck in a low paste life can be hard to accept sometimes. Your video was really original and helped me a lot. Your words are truly from your heart and I could feel your words through the screen❤❤❤

[@tiarailic4086]

You, dear lady, inspire me!❤ keep being you😊 you're one of a kind!

[@ElizabethGaddPhotography]

Gahhh! Thank you!!! 🙏🏻 🥰

[@mariannedressler6784]

We are enough. I think we put more on ourself than need be. ❤

[@jansturk]

We humans are truly enough to create the lives we are happy for. We need to believe in ourselves and love life. Thanks for your realistic videos. You want to give a true picture of your life.

[@anitazwolenik4250]

Magical images❤ you dont have to be and simply you cant be creative all the time!

[@elindieme6799]

I would love to learn how to take photos from you!! You’re so talented! I’m also in a creative rut, it happens. Time for us to rest for summer. Love from Haida Gwaii ❤

[@rogercrettol7166]

Jonna Jinton recommended your video - and I am so glad.The forest sequences are - let me use a german term - "märchenhaft". I'm not sure fabulous is the proper translation. Well, I liked most of the scenes of your video very much - thank you a lot and happy spring feelings.

[@avaramieli]

We all need creative breaks, it is cycle of life ❤️

[@jenyates102]

Ahhhh my home! I’m so happy to see my beaches in your video. And a topic so close to my heart too! Never resonated more to a video than this one!

[@ElizabethGaddPhotography]

Oh this means so much to me, to hear you connected with this video! Thank you. ❤ The west coast of BC will always feel like home to me, I love it here sooooo much.

[@ns2953]

Love youre work, ELIZABETH ❄️😇✌🏼

[@erinloughery]

Happy Spring fellow Canadian 🥰 Lovely video!!

[@BellaLadyWolf]

I really loved this video ❤

[@rychei5393]

This is a treasure and a gem, thank you!

[@ChadBarry]

Thanks for sharing my friend!! 🤗

[@ElizabethGaddPhotography]

Awwwee so good to see you here, Chad! ❤️

[@cyndireader7945]

This is exactly what I needed right now. Thank you for sharing!

[@DanielErnst]

Amazing video 🙏😊 totally love the forest scenes!

[@ElizabethGaddPhotography]

Ahhh thank you Daniel!! Hehe, these forests never fail to amaze me. 💚🌿

[@joanneoconnor247]

I enjoy watching your content and your photography is 💯

[@AlexLancasterFilms]

I love living in BC

[@Kristopherandres]

Stunning work ❤ you always inspire me

[@ElizabethGaddPhotography]

Thank you my love. 🥰

[@zsianz1]

Such a beautiful video, the images and the music were just so peaceful. Hehe I had to laugh at both you and pepper for getting on the snack train!! You did look a bit pale after all that chocolate 😂

[@dealeusedelumiere]

Amazing, as always 💗💗

[@dmtdreamz7706]

You are able to imagine entirely new worlds and realities. You know how when you're daydreaming you can just sit there maybe in class, you're bored when you used to be in you know literature class or something in high school you were so bored you would just sit there and stare out the window and just daydream as a teacher was yakking on about Shakespeare or something and you were sitting there. You're just daydreaming about some videogame world that you wanted to inhabit and you just got lost in this sort of reverie of this sort of fantasy world you went into this world. You were running around as an elf doing something. Fighting somebody whatever. That is a little taste. A little microcosm of what can really happen. What God is doing on the macro level. So when you crank up the consciousness and you crank up all these other dials. Your imagination goes through the roof. your creativity goes through the roof. You literally tap into the source of creativity. Pure infinite creativity which is responsible for the creation and the imagination of all of material reality. This pure creativity is responsible for creating atoms, molecules, planets, galaxies, science, mankind, languages, animals, you name it and you're tapping into that and it feels so surreal and unbelievable because it's too good to be true. Here you were living this ordinary life. Thinking that reality is just material and physical and now one day you find yourself in the nexus of creation where God's mind is creating the entire fucking universe.

[@dmtdreamz7706]

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[@anishamaheshwari]

It was such a beautiful video. And I resonated with this one more than the others. I love those mugs & btw the necklace you were wearing on the beach, is it from Jonna Jinton? It looked beautiful on you. Thank you for sharing your inner experience of a creative rut.

[@ElizabethGaddPhotography]

Thank you so much Anisha! I'm so glad this one resonated with you. ❤ And yes! It is a Jonna Jinton necklace - my partner Kris got it for me as a surprise and I absolutely LOVE it. 🥰

[@olasolska7886]

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[@sf.68]

This was such a beautiful video! What is the name of the forest you shot in?

[@AlfCalson]

Jonna Jinton sent me

[@katarzynajaninakozowska1893]

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[@katarzynajaninakozowska1893]

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[@Ellary_Rosewood]

It's really hard when you feel this way - when you're in a creative rut as well as fatigued from the seasonal changes, but you still NEED to work hard and create, otherwise you'll end up homeless. I've gotten quite good at being easier on myself, living slower and more meaningfully, and being as present and mindful as I can. It's honestly changed my life for the better and I would never go back. However, there's still that nagging feeling and reality that I'm not in a place where I can take some time off and not worry about things. I need to keep going and be consistent with my work. I'm currently on a bit of a time crunch, trying to make my goal of being a full time artist and KZbinr a reality. I have to leave my current living situation by the beginning of September and don't have many other options right now. I'm so close, but still a ways from my dreams and goals. I know I can make it work, and I know I'm not alone with these feelings. Sorry for the rant, but your beautiful video reminded me of how much I long for these feelings of calm in daily life. One day it'll happen. Wishing you the best! ❤🌲

[@Terrierized]

Pepper needs a custom made bowl ;)

[@ElizabethGaddPhotography]

Hehe, he so does!!

[@ozaneycan2262]

merhaba elizabethgadd jonna jinton ve sizi çok seviyorum videolarınıza türkçe altyazı eklerseniz çok sevinirim türkiyeden sevgiler.

[@НаталияМальцева-о7в]

Красиво очень в лесу и на природе находиться в платьях. Не знай чего весь мир идёт на природу в штанах. Я вот тоже на природе штаны не терплю разве что от холода под подолом. Кстати длинные платья и накидки защищают и от комаров и от слепней да ещё нарепеллентиться можно а с шелковистой ткани клещ сам спадёт.

[@НаталияМальцева-о7в]

Почему общество вмешивается в личную жизнь супружеских пар и если мужу достаточно использовать женщину низменно а женщине этого не достаточно и она нуждается в ласке а муж её ласкать не обязан то почему нельзя в таких случаях обществу видя недоудовлетворенную женщину считать это нормой? Почему с такими женщинами пытаются что то сделать: подсунуть под другого, запузатить лишним ребёнком, кастрировать, убрать из света! А почему нельзя в личную жизнь не вмешиваться и если мужика устраивает то не осуждать и женщину? Почему если она упитанная до среднего веса её надо сделать ожиревшей и всё какие то придирки? Ну почему нельзя чтобы пусть хоть глаза разные бегают а это ни за измену не считать ни за похоть ? А признак того что никто не обязан её удовлетворять тем более что это к лишним детям и приведёт.

[@НаталияМальцева-о7в]

Я тоже хочу на пейзажи только без мужика. У нас в лесу медведей полно. А тебе видно и лицо накрасить не дают и съёмку замутняют. Как с таким бесправием бороться? Чтобы было право краситься и украшаться а не извращения совершать в чем женщин без конца упрекают!

[@dr.apollo4226]

Y’all just copying Jonna Jinton word for word nowadays 😅

[@nanathecanner]

This is Elizabeth’s Story.

[@clickmaniac1]

luckily i've never been bothered by creative downtime, always took that time to just look, smell the roses as they say... LOVE hickory sticks, lucky dog.