the state that you feel in, what is your capacity? Do you feel engaged? Do you feel creative?

Because if everything's going well, you kind of should.

Hello and welcome back to Art Juice. This is honest, generous and humorous conversations

that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me, Alice Sheridan.

And me, Louise Fletcher.

And this is a sort of welcome back episode into the new year. And I just want to start by saying, and I'm sure Louise agrees with me, thank you for all your messages, checking that we are okay. Are we okay?

We're okay. We're okay. But yes, it has been a little bit of a pause, although probably the

longest pause we've done, but in what has been almost five years. So it wasn't planned either, was it? Let's just talk about that before we dive into what we're

going to be talking about today. No, we never made any arrangements. As per usual. Yeah, as per usual.

So we didn't say let's have a break. We didn't have a big argument. We just, well, you were busy with things.

I was busy with things.

Then Christmas was there.

Then I was really not feeling it for a couple of weeks.

I don't think you were feeling it either.

Sometimes you get to this point when you do a lot of teaching

or a lot of content creation where you just

don't want to hear yourself anymore. Yeah. I just don't want to hear my own voice. I want to hear

other people's voices. So I wasn't feeling it. And then you messaged the other day and said,

what about this idea? And I thought, yeah, actually I feel a bit more like doing it now.

Yeah.

So it's very lackadaisical because I used to be the one that was like,

we have to stick to a schedule, we have to, we won't increase our numbers

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